Map and Lurker Thread [SPOILERS]

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

Actually I haven't seen the full map but the oil situation looks dicey. All 1 tile islands or sea based?

[El Grillo]

Thanks for reminding me, GJ's tool sims up to turn 145, so of course it doesn't consider the lategame strategic resources. Let me go back and check that now... I think it would be best to give everyone one safe land-based oil as well, the water-based ones are probably from the original map generation.

I don't think CHM is great here, as everyone has access to 3 ancient and 5 classical happiness resources, and every one is available on the map, though not to all players. There admittedly aren't a ton of extra copies to trade, so maybe that could come up?

[El Grillo]

- Everyone now has oil at their Horse city.
- Kublai Khan of Babylon -> Kublai Khan of Egypt

I think the players have waited long enough. Thanks so much to everyone who left feedback and made suggestions.

[El Grillo]

Looks like ipecac decided not to SIP. That's on me, I initially checked to make sure no one could secure a much better plains hill, but then I moved the copper/horse locations closer to the capital and enriched them, without checking how that would then affect capital sites.

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

Looks like ipecac decided not to SIP. That's on me, I initially checked to make sure no one could secure a much better plains hill, but then I moved the copper/horse locations closer to the capital and enriched them, without checking how that would then affect capital sites.

It's not the end of the world - he has picked up more brown now, lost the river fresh water bonus and lost a turn for a 5/0/1 tile, unless he has gained horses/copper there? Even so for a beuro cap it has less rivered tiles also.

[El Grillo]

No, the horse and copper are further away, 4-5 tiles from the original capital spot. He's moved closer to them but not enough to invalidate good spots for them. It might not be a huge issue over the course of this game, but I wanted to leave that as a reminder for any future maps I make.

[El Grillo]

I find it interesting that everyone seems to have opted to scout deep. There could be a larger-than-expected variation in how long it takes them to find their copper and horse sites. They're all within ~6 tiles of the capital, so it shouldn't be a huge deal, but I thought people usually circle around the capital once to identify second city sites before sending them farther afield.