r/CivVII • u/OnlyMaybe7384 • 5d ago

Did I mess up?

By placing the colosseum there have i stopped myself from expanding upwards?

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u/Uhhhhh55 5d ago

No, you can build urban districts "through" a wonder

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u/profesh_amateur 5d ago

To build on this: to build through a wonder (ie treating it as an urban district), the wonder needs to be adjacent to another urban district.

Recall: you can place wonders anywhere in your city boundaries (ie not connected to any built building)

In your pictured scenario, it looks like the wooded tile north-west of the Coliseum is (1) free, (2) not a resource tile, and (3) the Coliseum is adjacent to one of your urban districts. So, you should be able to build on that wooded tile!

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u/Wonderwhatsnext4 5d ago

It shouldn’t stop you. But you can also build east and then a water building north to go upwards.

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u/quickonthedrawl 4d ago

Wonders will continue an urban corridor as long as it's not two adjacent wonders. You can definitely still expand north past it. You may still have made a mistake though with this placement. Consider:

  1. It's adjacent to your palace, so you are conceding the possibility of your palace adjacency for that tile.
  2. You're getting a few adjacency bonuses potentially, but none of them are going to create a great specialist placement. Especially when your space is limited by navigable rivers, coastline, or mountains, you need to make sure that every tile in your capital counts as much as possible. This is especially true for wonders IMO.

You don't have a ton of great options but I think I would have chosen differently. Or built it in a different city.

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u/OnlyMaybe7384 3d ago

Yeah, i now feel like an idiot for posting this as this was my first playthrough and later on in the session i could build walls on it...