Thanks, Ceil. A lot of that hadn't occurred to me even to consider at all; I guess that's what a dedlurker is for! 
Luckily by the time we have to make the next dotmapping decisions, the Patrol should have scouted our coastline. My issue with the proposed dots is that none of them can work food until t50, and I'm going to want my next city in the 40s. The capital will definitely have to work corn most of the time, but can afford to give it up to the eastern PH city if working a foodhammer item or happycapped, and it's not like that site is handicapped by lack of corn (first ring grass cows! awesome tile!). I agree with you that it really depends on the seafood revealed (or lack thereof).
Thanks for the idea to farm the wines, though. I'm definitely going to try that; farmed plains wines are basically a river grass cottage with bonus hammer, which is totally a worthwhile tile. I think that's a great fourth tile to work in the capital when I'm trying to grow, before I get real river cottages.
Just need to find a chance to revise the micro plan factoring in Wheel/Pottery first instead of a run for Buddhism... hopefully can get to it tomorrow night.
EDIT: To clarify, I like the BFC for the proposed yellow dot. It'd be a solid place to build Colossus after slinging MC, for instance. I am just leery about its weakness until I have cows/banana farm in play.
Luckily by the time we have to make the next dotmapping decisions, the Patrol should have scouted our coastline. My issue with the proposed dots is that none of them can work food until t50, and I'm going to want my next city in the 40s. The capital will definitely have to work corn most of the time, but can afford to give it up to the eastern PH city if working a foodhammer item or happycapped, and it's not like that site is handicapped by lack of corn (first ring grass cows! awesome tile!). I agree with you that it really depends on the seafood revealed (or lack thereof).
Thanks for the idea to farm the wines, though. I'm definitely going to try that; farmed plains wines are basically a river grass cottage with bonus hammer, which is totally a worthwhile tile. I think that's a great fourth tile to work in the capital when I'm trying to grow, before I get real river cottages.
Just need to find a chance to revise the micro plan factoring in Wheel/Pottery first instead of a run for Buddhism... hopefully can get to it tomorrow night.
EDIT: To clarify, I like the BFC for the proposed yellow dot. It'd be a solid place to build Colossus after slinging MC, for instance. I am just leery about its weakness until I have cows/banana farm in play.
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.