Thanks for the feedback on the Oracle plan, Ceil. We'll discuss it more as the game progresses - for now we've got a start to consider!
SIP yields:
2/2/1 rivered city tile
Plains river cow
Plains river wine
Dry grass corn
Two grass hills
Something like 16 (!!) BFC forests, from what's visible and fog gazing
A bunch of grass and plains, much of it rivered.
Fog gazing reveals what looks to be a plains hill 666 of the settler pair, which would be in a position to share corn. Additionally, a grass hill 33, what looks like a fair amount of flood plains to the southwest, and CONIFEROUS FOREST on the horizontal band of tiles 222. This tells us a few things:
1) We're not on a Tilted Axis map
2) We're in the southern hemisphere
3) Therefore, we're probably going to start running into jungle to our north.
Ceil, I'm not sure what could entice me to NOT SIP, since the plains hill gets us a 12t worker to start. Thoughts?
My major quandary about this start is the tech path. The obvious route is Agriculture->AH->BW, but that would leave a worker first start with a lot of idle turns (though without actually getting ingame and seeing beaker costs it's hard to judge, since I'm not actually super leet like that).
SIP yields:
2/2/1 rivered city tile
Plains river cow
Plains river wine
Dry grass corn
Two grass hills
Something like 16 (!!) BFC forests, from what's visible and fog gazing
A bunch of grass and plains, much of it rivered.
Fog gazing reveals what looks to be a plains hill 666 of the settler pair, which would be in a position to share corn. Additionally, a grass hill 33, what looks like a fair amount of flood plains to the southwest, and CONIFEROUS FOREST on the horizontal band of tiles 222. This tells us a few things:
1) We're not on a Tilted Axis map
2) We're in the southern hemisphere
3) Therefore, we're probably going to start running into jungle to our north.
Ceil, I'm not sure what could entice me to NOT SIP, since the plains hill gets us a 12t worker to start. Thoughts?
My major quandary about this start is the tech path. The obvious route is Agriculture->AH->BW, but that would leave a worker first start with a lot of idle turns (though without actually getting ingame and seeing beaker costs it's hard to judge, since I'm not actually super leet like that).
Playing: PB11
(March 3rd, 2012, 21:07)antisocialmunky Wrote: Civilization Economics: You have 1 Cow. You build some pastures around it to feed your people. The population grows uncontrollably. You enslave everybody and work half of them to death.