(September 23rd, 2013, 22:23)NobleHelium Wrote: I was actually pretty shocked how we planted so many cities in the same locations when I first looked at your thread, actually. Partially because some of the locations were rather unorthodox due to the general awkwardness of the resource locations and yet we both used them.
But yeah we spammed settlers and stretched across the map to get stone. Razing Ichabod's fourth city was what allowed that, of course.
Yeah, I think that the fact that we both ended up settling in place in the end pushed us to similar city sites. I think there were not sooo many sensible ways to dotmap our core. We did our early expansion slightly differently though: I took the nearby fish lake plant first so that I could chop Stonehenge while you went with the pig-gold-cows-clam plant and saved those trees for MoM.
I think my city immediately SW of the core was a bit
while I like my dot map in the NE slightly more than your approach. And yeah, the way you stretched to west was pretty bold/confident/something 