Ah, ok. Thanks for letting me know - we obviously didn't ban it in this game, but since this is meant as a training game, it's good to know what tactics RB isn't fond of. Maybe that's what the kerfluffle in Kuro's thread was about? (I know you can't answer that globals, just thinking out loud)
Well, if my maintenance continues to be dead-on, then my sandbox was accurate by sheer luck (do different map scripts have different tile layouts for the same Large size?) and I have nothing to worry about. Something I find odd is that it seems from the demos that coastal starts were common (when borders expand we can get a more accurate look at the water composition of capitals), but I have yet to see any sign of coast. That means I'm probably not on an isolated island start, but rather inland on a more sizable continent. Guess we'll find out over the next ~10t (assuming the poor Merovech Patrol doesn't get beared).
Semi-related note: I had a bad dream the other night that the mapmaker (who wasn't Commodore in the dream for some reason) had posted a thread publicly (not spoiler-tagged or anything) detailing the map and his thinking about everyone's start, I looked at it before realizing what it was, and somehow everyone knew and I got kicked out of the game. Freud would probably say that the map symbolizes my mother, looking at the thread is Oedipal lust, and the reaction to everyone is the shame I feel society would inflict on me as punishment.
Well, if my maintenance continues to be dead-on, then my sandbox was accurate by sheer luck (do different map scripts have different tile layouts for the same Large size?) and I have nothing to worry about. Something I find odd is that it seems from the demos that coastal starts were common (when borders expand we can get a more accurate look at the water composition of capitals), but I have yet to see any sign of coast. That means I'm probably not on an isolated island start, but rather inland on a more sizable continent. Guess we'll find out over the next ~10t (assuming the poor Merovech Patrol doesn't get beared).
Semi-related note: I had a bad dream the other night that the mapmaker (who wasn't Commodore in the dream for some reason) had posted a thread publicly (not spoiler-tagged or anything) detailing the map and his thinking about everyone's start, I looked at it before realizing what it was, and somehow everyone knew and I got kicked out of the game. Freud would probably say that the map symbolizes my mother, looking at the thread is Oedipal lust, and the reaction to everyone is the shame I feel society would inflict on me as punishment.
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.