Golden Gate Bridge

[Saintree]

How do I build golden gate bridge? The description is not very clear..

[BlueFénix]

1 tile of water between 2 tiles of land. I was confused at first because I expected it to be like the panama canal, but it isn´t

[Arkadus]

bump. anyone got screenshot? help section suggests water requirement to either side of the bridge

[Prometheus]

The dev livestream on youtube with Hungary shows the bridge built. But you need 1 tile land, then one tile water, then one tile land, like this LWL. The bridge will cross the water in a straight line.

[Abalister]

And it needs to be coastal water tile. Can't be from a lake. Also, it has to be 2 landmasses joined together by the bridge. I tried with 2 hexes on same continent, with an ocean tile in between, and it wasn't a valid placement.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Different continents shouldn't matter. You need one of these configurations:

 X X       X L       
L C L     L C Y     
 Y Y       Y Y       

L= Land
C= Coast
X= One of these tiles must be water, the rest can be whatever.
Y= One of these tiles must be water, the rest can be whatever.

Any transformation that retains the relationships of the tiles will also be valid (rotation, for example).

This is an example that will fail:

 L L
L C L
 X X

Even though you have "LWL", you don't have water on both sides of the bridge and so it is not a legal placement.

[Arkadus]

Originally posted by tempest.of.emptiness:

Different continents shouldn't matter. You need one of these configurations:

 X X       X L       
L C L     L C Y     
 Y Y       Y Y       

L= Land
C= Coast
X= One of these tiles must be water, the rest can be whatever.
Y= One of these tiles must be water, the rest can be whatever.

Any transformation that retains the relationships of the tiles will also be valid (rotation, for example).

This is an example that will fail:

 L L
L C L
 X X

Even though you have "LWL", you don't have water on both sides of the bridge and so it is not a legal placement.

that clears it up. I had the
L L
L C L
X X setup except the coast was reef and I thought the reef was stopping it. cheers!

[Saintree]

I am actually wondering why they gave us canal district but no bridge district. They should be almost the same to implement..

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Originally posted by Saintree:

I am actually wondering why they gave us canal district but no bridge district. They should be almost the same to implement..

Depending on the map, there often are not a lot of valid bridge locations. I've only just now built the Golden Gate Bridge, in my third Gathering Storm game. The other two games, none of the AIs built it either. Maybe fractal maps would produce more valid spots.

[Saintree]

Originally posted by tempest.of.emptiness:

Originally posted by Saintree:

I am actually wondering why they gave us canal district but no bridge district. They should be almost the same to implement..

Depending on the map, there often are not a lot of valid bridge locations. I've only just now built the Golden Gate Bridge, in my third Gathering Storm game. The other two games, none of the AIs built it either. Maybe fractal maps would produce more valid spots.

That is correct, my friend! I just had a map where I can build bridge to connect to massive land masses.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

I misread the description of the requirements, and so part of what I said about where you can build the bridge is wrong. This configuration...

 X L       
L C Y     
 Y Y

... won't work because the bridge has to go straight across between two land tiles on opposite sides of the hex that will contain the bridge.

[dcain3456]

sorry to necro, but do you have to own all the tiles in question?

[pitonsnaboca]

Originally posted by dcain3456:

sorry to necro, but do you have to own all the tiles in question?

I believe you only need to own one of the land plots (in one of the ends of the bridge) and the coastal one.

[dcain3456]

Originally posted by pitonsnaboca:

Originally posted by dcain3456:

sorry to necro, but do you have to own all the tiles in question?

I believe you only need to own one of the land plots (in one of the ends of the bridge) and the coastal one.

...and the coastal one... ok

[rhobus42]

Can someone please explain why this is not a valid configuration?

C L L
C C L
C L L

[pitonsnaboca]

I think the bridge needs water on both sides of it.
In "reality" it would have, but technically ("plot-wise") there is no water on the right side of it.
I think that's the reason.
If any of those 3 land plots to the right were water, it would be possible.