

Desert hills and flood plains still provide resources but too much open desert is just starving your growth. Snow and Ice make for terrible terrain being the worst terrain to settle near in the game snow has no output and cannot support a farm, ice can't be worked and blocks all but submarines so can block otherwise viable trade routes.ĭesert is a bad place to build a city. There are several things that influence how you want to place a city for example: You are better off looking for a suitable location yourself rather than following what the advisor says is a good spot. This can help a lot in checking for a good location. Setting tile yields will display the food, production, gold, culture, science and faith yields of all tiles. If you set it to show resources any luxuries, resources and strategic resources will be clearly marked.

First thing to note if you click the scroll next to the map it will provide you with some display icons.
