[SPOILERS - PBEM17] novice and spaceman - Suryavarman of India

[spacemanmf]

Wow, someone is expanding rapidly.

I think my main gripe with that layout of cities is that it swaps two good city sites for three less good ones.

[novice]

I think my main gripe with that layout of cities is that it swaps two good city sites for three less good ones.

OK, so if I understand you correctly, this is the dotmap with the two good city sites:



and this is the one with three less good ones.



I don't really see it. The three eastern cities in the latter dotmap are all good. The northern filler city can borrow the fish and gives great flexibility in city management, where one city can emphasize hammers while other cities work the food. The Moai city will be good and makes good use of the coast, and the southern city won't have fish, but we can farm the flood plains in keeping with our specialist economy.

With the latter dotmap we grab the best resources (corn and fish) sooner, and we get an extra good city out of the same land.

EDIT: Remember, we can tolerate more overlap when every city will be running two specialists.

[spacemanmf]

OK, it's not so bad when you put it like that. I was going largely from memory, including having the NE city 1S of where it is, i.e. out of range of the fish.

[spacemanmf]

Pictures for Shoot the Moon

Sent to Shoot. Cheers for doing those.

[novice]

That sounds good then re: informing of other contacts.

I have also attached my screenshots from this turn. It seems that we both have roughly the same land shape -- a 10x10 land square with some bridges and islands off of that. I guess the question now is what those islands look like and how resources are distributed between the mainland and those islands. It also looks like some of the health resources may be unique to certain mainlands -- you guys have multiple corn while I have multiple wheat.

I'd be happy to send you guys a missionary, although considering I have neither a monastery nor galley at this point, I can't put all that accurate a time frame on it at this point. Once I get those in place though I will certainly send one over to you guys.

Shoot the Moon

[novice]

I think that one tile island in the bottom of this screenshot is the center of the world. Five arms connecting to each core probably meet here. The left arm on the screenshot probably connects up to Seaside.

There doesn't seem to be any intermediate islands, not many at least. So if we want intercontinental domestic trade routes we need to poach other players' land. Hmm...

[novice]

Also, if I'm right about the map dimensions that one-tile island is just 10 tiles north of our scouting work boat.

[novice]

And a composite map from our updated sandbox:

[novice]

Got it.

[zakalwe]

My oh my, that's a big sandbox you got there.

So now you can sim out microplans for StM as well?