(August 12th, 2013, 09:21)plako Wrote: Your starting position. Only visible tiles will be kept so no need to try to read the fog.
Okay, so I won't do any tile bleeding analysis. Thanks for providing the start!
Unfortunately ... we have water (ocean) at the start.
I'm seriously considering moving the settler 1-7 and then founding the city there, which gets rid of the fish, but also wastes a turn and wastes a grassland hill. Otherwise, if we settle in place, we may be forced to pick a civilization that has fishing if we want to go max hammers at the start (using the 3H tile), or we can try and get a civ that starts with Hunting and then research Animal Husbandry. (The pigs are a superior food resource early on.) Settling in place isn't a bad capital, of course, it just means there's a ton of useless water. We'll probably need Moai here.The scout should probably go 1-7 in my opinion, just to see what options we have out west. This may change once we get the real game started, since tile bleeding will tell us what tiles get revealed.
Dick76, feel free to add your thoughts once you get back. In the meantime, I'm going to run some simulations that assume we settle in place.