[Spoilers] Amelia, Tempest of the Seas

[Amelia]

And of all things, my Warrior revealed the worst tile ever below the Cotton.

A dungeon. Gah. At least it doesn't spawn anything...

[Bobchillingworth]

What are you complaining about? A dungeon is awesome. It can't produce anything bad, and once you surround it the worst result you'll get is having a throwaway warrior get rusted weapons or "never return from the depths of the lair". I'd open it pretty soon, that's how PB got the Ashen Veil founded so early in FFH PBEM I, and a few other players have gotten various great people.

[Amelia]

Well, apart from the fact that i can't surround it? :P There's a coast next to it, which means that Mistforms can appear. And god i hate those. (Until i build workboats i guess).

Also there are peaks around, so Griffons can appear as well. I won't open it until i have my third city actually. Just to be safe, yeah.

[DaveV]

I've popped bunches of dungeons/ruins/barrows and never had anything spawn on water or peaks. I think the code requires a free land tile to place the units.

[Amelia]

Oh my. Free dungeon woohoo

[Amelia]

Penguins! These lovable birds add 1 C to the space which they appear, normally Tundra or Snow.

And, well, my first work boat has been completed! It was renamed into S.S. Pirate Cove, and sent...

[img] http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/4006/...ot0004.jpg[/img]

To make a Pirate Cove woohoo!!! So what does this Pirate Cove do?



Yeah, add 2 C. Nothing much.

Yet :P

Also, look at where the Penguins are. Aww, how cute, they're mixing with the Deer.... THE DEER!?

When Hunting come in those poor birds will be hunted to death among their fellow Deer.

[Bobchillingworth]

I'm a little surprised you didn't send the workboat 1S of where you stopped before making the cove.


Also penguins are way better than just one free commerce (your deer tile gets that commerce from the river). They give one free happiness- for every city in your empire! Might be worth never building anything on that deer tile if it would involve destroying the penguins. You just got very lucky and received an exclusive personal happiness resource, while I'm sure this map has more than one deer (and you'll have plenty of food just from coastal tiles).


Btw, penguins only appear if you have chaos mana, I believe.

[Brian Shanahan]

Well for the current city I can only see 2 pirate cove sites no matter where they're planted. But city spacing may have dictated 1S as a better spot.

[Amelia]

I'm planning a 2cove city in the ice later, and if i place it 1s it might spoil it.

[Maksim]

I'm planning a 2cove city in the ice later, and if i place it 1s it might spoil it.

Are you sure about that? I thought that placing a pirate port prevented another one going up within a 2-tile radius, so with your pirate port showing up where it has (1S of the city), you won't be able to build another one anywhere else in the south that we can see on the screenshot? So not 3S of the city, not 3S 1W, not 3S 2W?