How to set up a colony on water sector?

[Eztrelle]

As the title....

[BigRockWall]

You cant build a colony on a water tile. You can build it on a coastal land tile, then annex the water tile as long as you have aquatic deployment tech

[Prometheus]

Water tiles are referred to as coastal in game. You can settle on land next to water then take sectors that are water (called coastal) as part of the city.

Since you haven't done it before I'll give some quick tips. Coastal sectors are very powerful. They give much more resources and job slots than land sectors but give no production. Their buildings give more flat resources that scale with your non-production land exploitations as well. So if you want the ultimate food specialized city (for exporting food to your other cities) two land food exploitations plus two coastal is the absolute best at it. Also you can only make sea units in cities that have a coastal sector annexed.

[S2]

I highly suspect there will be an expansion allowing you to do this at some point like in CIV-Beyond Earth with Rising Tide DLC.

[Eztrelle]

Originally posted by Promethian:

Water tiles are referred to as coastal in game. You can settle on land next to water then take sectors that are water (called coastal) as part of the city.

Since you haven't done it before I'll give some quick tips. Coastal sectors are very powerful. They give much more resources and job slots than land sectors but give no production. Their buildings give more flat resources that scale with your non-production land exploitations as well. So if you want the ultimate food specialized city (for exporting food to your other cities) two land food exploitations plus two coastal is the absolute best at it. Also you can only make sea units in cities that have a coastal sector annexed.

Thanks... useful info.