City Tile limits

[ChickenWings]

What is the tile limit for a cities growth? It seems to me that a city can grow out about 3 tiles.

Also How far away should outposts be founded from another city?

Trying to get a handle on maximizing city potential and at the sametime capturing key resources.

[ChickenWings]

Also I've noticed that in orbital view around cities there is a dark blue line that is over 3 tiles away from the center of my city. So I'm confused and thinking that this may be a border for future city growth.

[phadin]

If this is like Civ 5, you should be able to keep expanding the boarders, the but the workable area is limited to 2 tiles around teh city.

[Ew]

Originally posted by phadin:

If this is like Civ 5, you should be able to keep expanding the boarders, the but the workable area is limited to 2 tiles around teh city.

3 tiles

[billy]

i assume its like CIV 5 , 3 workable tiles but your borders can go further.

how far cities should be apart is upto you , 3 tiles for each city lets them work there max but often it can be worth having them 2 tiles for each city apart.

[Delekhan]

City/Tile Mechanics are exactly like in Civ 5, except new cities start as outposts, which take 8 - 24 turns to grow to full cities, depending on your health and whether you use trade routes to boost them.

I generally like to found cities no less than 5 tiles apart to maximize my coverage.

[ChickenWings]

@Ew It does seem to be three tiles or 3 tiles plus an adjacent tile.

@Del Thats pretty much what I decided on about 5 or 6 tiles. Allowed me to quickjly connect cities and establish trade routes. Seems work to work really well.

In Civ 5 I remember sending out lone colonist to set up cities on specific resources before an enemy city could. Beyond Earth seems like it will punish me for that.

[BayneRav]

why do ai place outposts upwards of 20 tiles away from there capital? I got blocked at placing an outpost of mine within the 3 tile rule and now im questioning why AI decided to move so close to my ZOC or lack of a better term why they moved so far away from there capital?

[B0RDERL1NE]

Cities have to have 3 tiles between them, which means they have to be placed a minimum of 4 tiles apart. The blue line in the orbital layer shows your orbital coverage, where you are allowed to place a satellite.

[GM Pax]

Originally posted by WarpStrike:

What is the tile limit for a cities growth? It seems to me that a city can grow out about 3 tiles.

Cities can WORK out to a radius of 3 tiles. They can, slowly, CLAIM TERRITORY to a radius of 5 tiles.

Also How far away should outposts be founded from another city?

Very subjective.

If you want to "go Tall" - a few, very populated, cities - you want to have zero overlap of workable tiles, placing them so that there are at least 6, possibly as many as 7 ort 8, tiles between city centers.

If you want to "go Wide" - lots of less-populated cities - you will want to pack them in closer together, with 3 to 5 tiles between each city center.