Brief chat with Maniac of Maya ingame. He was joking the Mayan Empire was the sole remaining despotism (eg they haven't revolted to Hereditary Rule yet). Seeing Maya have a couple of size 12 cities, I checked out their lands for a bit to find out how they do it.
Maya have had easy access to: Gold-Gems-Silver (total +6 happy after Forge), Dyes, Sugar, Wine, Spices and will soon get access to Silk. I have had easy access to Silver, Gold, Spices and Sugar. That's it. They also have very fertile lands with lots of rivers and floodplains, and still have a lot of easy to reach sites for new cities, while I need to cross the frickin' Khazak Steppesto my east, or the Himalayas to my south east to reach fertile land!
See, I don't believe starting positions should be exactly the same, but having great land is making things pretty easy for some teams in this game...
Anyway, enough whining (although I might post a screenshot of Mayan and HRE lands tonight)
Kyan of Babylon has tried to recruit me to the cause of PAT. If I do abandon CUDDLE and balance the team count to a 7 vs 7, it sure would bring Interesting Times to the world of PB3...
Maya have had easy access to: Gold-Gems-Silver (total +6 happy after Forge), Dyes, Sugar, Wine, Spices and will soon get access to Silk. I have had easy access to Silver, Gold, Spices and Sugar. That's it. They also have very fertile lands with lots of rivers and floodplains, and still have a lot of easy to reach sites for new cities, while I need to cross the frickin' Khazak Steppesto my east, or the Himalayas to my south east to reach fertile land!
See, I don't believe starting positions should be exactly the same, but having great land is making things pretty easy for some teams in this game...
Anyway, enough whining (although I might post a screenshot of Mayan and HRE lands tonight)
Kyan of Babylon has tried to recruit me to the cause of PAT. If I do abandon CUDDLE and balance the team count to a 7 vs 7, it sure would bring Interesting Times to the world of PB3...