[Spoilers] Acalostas and Mackoti learn a thing or two, with Help from Ilios

[Ravus Sol]

A reward for having started a thread! Map should be finished tomorrow. Then can start once the turnorder is decided upon.

[Acalostas]

A reward for having started a thread! Map should be finished tomorrow. Then can start once the turnorder is decided upon.

Weer you eavesdropping on our Yahoo chat? Cos we were hoping for some ale to boost our spirits!

[Ilios]

And Btw i read all your therea on FFH just awesome.

Thanks!

Waits until the players comment on the starting location.

[mackoti]

Well my first tought was to setle on the banana tile for 3 reason:
-We get +1 food
-we avoid a peak in starting pozition
-we need Bw so we can improve banana. actualy 4:
- we gain more river
Against:
we dont start on a hill how ilios said so we can go worker first.

Wines are nice but i think are forcing our techpath:
-agriculture and after mining.

So what you think Ilios?

[Acalostas]

is that unique feature Seven Pines or Standing Stones?

if it's standing stones, we can get +1 happy from it

Edit: seven pines can cause all players at war with you to auto declare peace. thought i should mention it for Noobish lurkers. No other bonuses.

btw, who's playing the first turn? how are we deciding who does what turn?

[Acalostas]

is that unique feature Seven Pines or Standing Stones?

if it's standing stones, we can get +1 happy from it

photo upload test:






Didn't work. take 2:




uh, does anyone know how to show a picture from flickr?

Test 3:

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woot! now how do i get rid of that crossed out box...?

and the arrow on the right hand side...


Test 4: oh screw it, i'll ask Mackoti tomorrow.

[Ilios]

My first instinct is to found on the banana as well. As you say, we'll need Bronze Working to cut that jungle. Banana is only 5/0/1 in this case, while an irrigated grassland post Agrarianism is 4/0/1, so no big loss here.

The problem with that move is that you won't have an easy to defend capital. Lot's of hills around the founding site, and a river that will prevent you from attacking out.

That said, I think it might be worthwile to move on the Banana, revolt to Nationhood, and found on T1.

Let's see what Aca has to say about it.

Wines are nice but i think are forcing our techpath:

Well, Crafting is the tech you need to improve the Wines, which is our starting tech...

I think it's covered by forest though, so you'll need Mining to cut the forest anyhow.

Hopefully there is another source of commerce somewhere in the fog, because we're going to need a lot of it just to get our worker techs!

I think the Unique feature is Seven Pines. Easiest way to find out is to zoom out completely.

Thoughts on moving starting warrior and scout?

[Acalostas]

Let's see what Aca has to say about it.


I think the Unique feature is Seven Pines. Easiest way to find out is to zoom out completely.

Thoughts on moving starting warrior and scout?

Sorry, i forgot to mention that Mackoti and i had talked about it on chat, so i mostly agree with him.

the only thing i have to say is that if that is standing stones, it might tip the balance of pro's and cons of settling on the bananas. i mean, we'll probably grab it later on anyway, but if you have some plan which requires +1 happy in the early, early game, the standing stones would be nice. and if we settle next to the feature, we settle on a hill.

Just adding that into the mixture, doesn't really affect anything.

I suppose this is just my long rambling way of saying i agree with both of you, but adding possibilities into the mix,


Also, on my image test, can you see image test 3? can you see the picture?

[fire&ice]

woot! now how do i get rid of that crossed out box...?

To get rid of the boxes get rid of the lines of text that are suposed to be pictures

[Acalostas]

To get rid of the boxes get rid of the lines of text that are suposed to be pictures

shuld i take that to mean, that you can't see any of the pictures?

how about now?


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For some reason, earlier on, i had it like this:


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hence my comment asking how to get rid of the crossed out red box