[SPOILERS] Novice forgets to log out

[novice]

Dazed played nice and moved on through.

If you think my settling decisions in my last few games have been bad, take a look at this beauty... My second city, and it doesn't claim a single new food resource.



Also, from what my scout revealed my assumptions about the map are wrong, since the revealed tiles don't match what a mirrored, offset vertical stripe should look like. Maybe the brick pattern is a bit skewed, so that one of my western neighbours is closer than the other.

[TheHumanHydra]

Why not 1S?

[novice]

Why not 1S?

Because I want to be able to work the two food resources at the capital. It will be a filler city long term, but hopefully it will speed up my start. I'll grow it to size two, and it will then build settlers/workers along with my capital. I'll start growing my capital once I have the worker force in place to improve more tiles for it. With settlers being almost as cheap as workers, it's just easier at the start to settle a city, have the workers improve its resource tiles, and then move on to the next city. I just need to make sure I start working some cottages before my economy is tanked.

I'm pretty sure there are better plays here but I'm playing this by feel...

I'll probably settle the next city where my scout is, and it will pick up the wheat by the time my workers could improve it anyway. I guess the philosophy is that I don't gain anything by grabbing resources faster than I can improve them, so I'm better off settling cities in a way that lets me work whatever resources my workers are in position to improve.

[novice]

Oh, I see, the western hemisphere is mirrored and then flipped.



That means my nearest neighbour is quite close. Updated map:

[Commodore]

But tell us, Plako, how does this make you feel?

[novice]

It's all cool.

[novice]

Hi Zak!



(I missed it with my screenshot but Zak has a warrior where the sign says.)

And hi, silver!



A city grabbing seafood and silver looks good. I was planning a city there anyway since it's not so worker intensive. And it could potentially chop GLH down the line.

Maybe I won't have to settle on top of gems then.

[NobleHelium]

That is a lot of forests over there...

[plako]

But tell us, Plako, how does this make you feel?

[NobleHelium]

How we doin?