(March 20th, 2018, 20:03)BRickAstley Wrote:(March 20th, 2018, 16:26)Old Harry Wrote: Fintourist spotted a size six capital. I *believe* it belongs to BGN, who's Boudica (AGG/CHA) of Khmer and hasn't settled a second city yet. I'm confused. Did the mapmakers put him on a 21-tile island as revenge for his setup-thread threats?
1 tile island with 5 fish resources.
But it's hidden from the demo screen? Ingenious!

More seriously we've got room for ten to thirteen cities here, depending on how quickly our neighbours expand. In pb18 we had 22 cities when we attacked Azza. Yet there were 4700 land tiles in 18 and they are 5700 here, with nine fewer players. So there's a lot of land that's unaccounted for, which could be:
- some large empty islands over the ocean like in PB27
- Some players got more land than others like in PB18
- lots of hidden forested mountains or ice to reduce the impact of global warming
The second seems unlikely as it wasn't a popular feature in PB18. The third seems unlikely as well, as that's a *lot* of dead tiles. So it seems like we should be thinking about getting astronomy as early as possible and then IMPing the hell out of another continent.
Of course, we'll want to eat a neighbour or two as well, but I don't think early conquests will be as decisive as in pb18.