Gavagai is haunted by demons and Zanth

[Gavagai]

[zanth]

Atm both places for new city are good (marked by sign and to the left). The latter could be even better as it could grant 11 water tiles, excellent for early Moai.

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Next turn Cre players would hve 2nd circle, so if GNP changes, the leader was not Zara

[zanth]

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1) Marble. Not bad.
2) The only tile to be able to grab 2nd fish is where the scout is standing, so ... it seems it would be lost

[Gavagai]

Your dotmap orphanes the northern Fish resource. However the only way not to orphane it is to put a city 1W from your city3 which blocks us from settling any other cities in this area.

[zanth]

Exactly, and it's hard to tell what's better... Another option not to orphan fish is to settle on sheep.

1) Settle somelike on dotmap
-Pros: 2 cities instead of 1, cheaper maintance; silk tile available; can share cottages between each other and cap, same for dear. There's a possibility that fish could be grabbed by some island land
-Cons: We won't be able to see if there's island before we settle, so, valuable fish could be lost

2) Settle on scout
-Pros: enormous food-rich region, excellent for National Epic. 7 forests to chop at BFC
-Cons: too much resources for 1 city if 2 are available. Map is quite small, so the dense cities are -- the better. Good silk tile would be lost. No tile sharing between cities -> bad at early stage. And maybe the main argument - too much resources for an early city with low happiness.

[Gavagai]

At least we should feel justified in taking creative leader. No idea how we would play this start without that trait.
I like 2-fish supercity option if we find a lot of luxuries. Otherwise, I would settle on Sheep.

[zanth]

Settling on sheep is a good option. No deer sharing though but +1 food and +1 shareble riverside cottage. And +1 forest.
And I don't like the idea to make a supercity. It seems there would be a need of several early luxuries which would be a miracle. And still both this and cap cities would be too difficult to grow, without sharing...

[zanth]

Silver on tundra hill 2E from sheep. And something strange happened: average GNP dropped to 17, but best prod increased to 5. Zara Yacob is Org and Fin... What can be the 4h tile w/o improvements?

[Gavagai]

5h is plains hill capital + forested plains hill. Someone must be building a workboat.

[zanth]

5h is plains hill capital + forested plains hill. Someone must be building a workboat.

Well, that's the most obvious option.
Someone had worked rivered foood resource but then switched to 0/3/0 tile. Quite strange huh? Nevertheless 4h tile is even more stranger... Forested stone/marble? If it's a plain hill cap, it was working something like 2/1/1 tile. Quite strange to switch to 0/3/0 even building workboat