To any lurker, player, or general reader: anyone who looks at this start and thinks it is easy to play, understand this: The nearest pre-calendar happy resource is 11 tiles north of the capital. The second is 13 tiles south. I have settled 9 cities, and other than the capital starting resources, I have picked up two 6 food tiles, three 5 food tiles and three 4 food tiles for all of those cities: Not even 1 food resource per city. There is no marble, nor stone. Both early religions fell before we could get to Myst, Oracle as well. We are at the limits of vertical expansion, and horizontal expansion is about to get a small boost from trade routes, but we are just about done with that as well. There is no one to attack, even in range to attack.
Given the fact we are at +7gpt, 20 gold in the bank and about to get 329 gold from missing Mids, I'm going to revisit. I need to figure out the tech path because I'm not convinced giving superjm trade routes makes much sense when he has Representation. We might need a war dec, and we are going to have to figure out what techs we can afford with the limited gold available.
Given the fact we are at +7gpt, 20 gold in the bank and about to get 329 gold from missing Mids, I'm going to revisit. I need to figure out the tech path because I'm not convinced giving superjm trade routes makes much sense when he has Representation. We might need a war dec, and we are going to have to figure out what techs we can afford with the limited gold available.