[spoilers] Sians Sensational Scenary

[Sian]

place to settle, place to settle

initial suggestions lean towards SIP or SE

pro/cons of moving SE would be

-Grassland hill Forest, -Plains, ---Coast, -Ocean -offshore plains wet wheat

+riverside Grassland hill, +riverside Grassland Forest, ++Tundra Forest, +Grassland, +Tundra hill, +Mountain

Guts say that 1SE would likely better, the two grassland tiles wins over the corrospondant grassland hill and plains to the north, the coasts+ocean vs, tundras and Mountains is in my book roughly equal (if for nothing else then due to the fact that there might be something interesting down there), and lastly the offshore wet wheat ... which would be useless till at least Sailing at which point it looks like that there could be a at least respectable city overthere using it instead of the cap

Hence SE is better even if theres no resouces down there ... for the reason i scout N-NW to see if theres something interesting up there which could bring reason to 'waste' a turn climbing over the hill settling up there



Plain tile is Wine ... short term not to interesting but nice to know that i have at least 1 Happiness, maybe i can pick it up with a city also grabbing the wheat in the corner later on ...

I Settle 1SE



One of the Tundra Forests was Fur ... thats +2Happiness allready ...

My starting tech path is Argiculture (starting to farm those FPs since i'm low on food) -> Fishing (need early exploring) -> AH (Cows) -> Mining ... and then depending on where the need is, BW or Sailing first)

[Sian]

t1 done ... nothing really interesting to see ... fish 3n1w of Wine (city to-be-built 1n of wine), border pops and find crabs and Deer south of capital, and notice that island to the east is at least (as far as i counted) is 6 tiles big

[novice]

Sacrificial altars and whipping for production. Sounds interesting.

I take it you'll use cheap library scientists for teching then?

[Sian]

yeah ... thats the plan ... islands scripts (i know this is unlikely to be a script but close enough given that it was advertised as a tiny islands map) often have low hammers, and a fair bit of Seafood (captial not included but that have enough hammers otherwise so it aren't as critical) so whipping is perfectly viable as long as Caste aren't needed (and people are very unlikely to go emancipation since the maptype is fairly cottage-intolerant) ... likely going to end up with a fairly tight city placement as to abuse the whip as much as possible ... Science is going to be supplied by cheap libaries, growing into scientists to be whipped, and intercontinental trade routes.

I believe myself that eventhrough i might not have taken the most typical setup, i'm certain that its workable, and a protential challenge for the others, which would likely be somewhat hammer-staved

Now that scout is in the NW-most corner its going to follow the coast clockwise till its at the capital, where its going to wait for a galley, which it could hop on to help exploring

[novice]

Any updates?

[Sian]

i bring an update next time the save is around k?

[Sian]

now then ... took some screens after i played the turn




AH have just finished (after turn end) and we've found horses to the northeast together with stones, and a borderpop showed me even more to the west, and i've tagged where i believe i should place my cities later on from what little i know

next tech on the menu is fishing (workboat scouts) -> Mining -> Sailing

[novice]

Thanks. I don't think I have any sage advice to give at the moment.

[Sian]

at least early on i'm planing to farm all the FP's due to general lack of food in the capital ... sooner or later i might even move the cap if i find somewhere better

when the cap have grown to 2 i build a settler to settle Zits (which i think is the best city short/mid term on the island

[oledavy]

Hey Sian!

Could we get an update next time you get the save? We lurkers understand you've made contact.