The big question is if we go worker first, what should the worker do after pasturing the cows. I was expecting one seafood, one deer, and one AH resource. This start is trickier, given our poor starting techs (hunting/mysticism).
(March 11th, 2013, 16:19)zakalwe Wrote: Is there a way to tell if we're in the southern or northern hemisphere? Something about the resource bubbles? Goto commands into the fog?
To be more specific, knowing our exact latitude, i.e. the exact distance to the northern and southern edges of the map, would be very useful.
This is going worker first, researching fishing, pausing the worker to build a workboat for the fish, then finishing the worker and another workboat, while researching AH -> mining -> bronze working. It's no good, because the worker runs out of things to do. Maybe do two workboats before finishing the worker, then.
Settler first, paused to build a workboat for the fish. Research fishing -> mining -> bronze working -> AH. I assumed that the second city's tile was not flatland. If it is, it gets settled one turn sooner.
Two cities and zero military units on T19 is perhaps a bit extreme. Someone might go warrior first while researching fishing. But still, there's at least 16 tiles to move after that 4-turn warrior, so I think it may be ok. (Well, that assumes we are close to the middle of our region in the N-S direction. But I think that's a reasonable assumption.)
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