Krill Wrote:It's not so much a problem, but it gives players other options for trades and diplomacy over borders. As it is, the outer isles are just extra land, with no special resources that are up for grabs, so no reason to focus expansion over there, whereas the inner isle has the extra resources. This is balanced, but it could also give players a good reason to expand outwards as well as inwards and really make them question which way they want to expand.
It's true, but these islands will provide good trade routes. I think the current design allows each team to make profitable cities by settling the islands, but does not force them to. I added a few cows to the resource poor corner islands.
Edit: Just saw your corn post, will fix in a while.
Edit2: I agree with the silver. Will fix that too. Give every island one? Move it to slightly built up "corner" islands?