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Riverside grassland is pretty good for cottages... Does it make up for hooking the corn a turn later?
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(August 20th, 2013, 11:27)Caledorn Wrote: My monitor resolution is 2560x1440.
First, wow. 
Mine is 1920x1080, but I actually run Civ4 in windowed mode & 1200x800 resolution. It seems to be the sweet spot (IMO) for screenshots that you don't need to downsize to look nice on the forums, but also not TOO painfully small. I'm sure it's a bit wide for people with small screen resolutions, but that's not too common these days. It makes reporting a breeze. Plus it makes it easy to have civ open and something else open next to it for taking notes and/or chat for important turn discussion.
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(August 20th, 2013, 11:52)scooter Wrote: (August 20th, 2013, 11:27)Caledorn Wrote: My monitor resolution is 2560x1440.
First, wow.
Mine is 1920x1080, but I actually run Civ4 in windowed mode & 1200x800 resolution. It seems to be the sweet spot (IMO) for screenshots that you don't need to downsize to look nice on the forums, but also not TOO painfully small. I'm sure it's a bit wide for people with small screen resolutions, but that's not too common these days. It makes reporting a breeze. Plus it makes it easy to have civ open and something else open next to it for taking notes and/or chat for important turn discussion.
I treated myself to an Asus 27" something something this summer. Exceptionally good image, and I love the resolution (even though the font is quite tiny, so I expect it can get tedious im a few years as I grow even older... *whine*).
Windowed mode is a good idea! I'll test that  1200x800 is not a big window though. I can run 4 720p movies at once on this monitor, and they'll all fit as long as I get them without any titlebars etc. Kinda ridiculous actually  I gueas I'm spoiled...
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Yossarian and I have talked a bit on Google Hangouts, and we think settling 1N is the best option, especially with those riverside grassland tiles up there. What do you guys think?
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1N seems fine--more rivers (including the one you would settle on) and more trees
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Settled our capital, "Server Problems", 1N of the starting location of our settler. So, here's some more images for you guys to enjoy!
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Wow, nasty desert.
And Scooter is right - windowed mode will help with readable screenshots...
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You can play CIV in windowed 1024*768 and it's fine for everything other than huge overview shots. But in windowed mode it's trivial to change resolution for those shots then change back, which is what I tend to do. If I can be bothered to do overview shots that is.
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So far this turn:
Cannibal Pony settled a city with 6 land tiles
Dinosaurs settled a city with 7 land tiles
GG and BowAivo settled cities that averaged 8 land tiles
Cannibal Pony is working a 3-food tile, most other teams are getting 4 hammers either by working plains hill forests or they have 2-hammer capitals.
I'm really surprised we only got one extra forest by moving 1N. It really looked like all three of those fogged tiles should have had forests in them. Oh well, the river really makes the move north worthwhile.
I think it'll probably be best to tech Mining=>BW first to get the earlier chops, but only build one worker before the settler. We should finish the first Quechua before switching to the settler, though. That'll delay it a couple turns past T29, but better safe than sorry.
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