Even the great and mighty Sullla can be deceived.
TBH, the real danger for Sullla is that he might underestimate LiPing's abilities based on this. LiPing showed that she's very careful and detailed with city micro, which is the exact opposite of what you'd expect from someone spending 2 turns to found a city basically in place. And it's not clear that it'll be obvious via land-counting when LiPing pops her borders, either, since they'll include 2 squares of actual coast. Then again, Sullla is on the opposite side of the donut from Rome. So it will be some time before he realizes just exactly what LiPing's start really ended up being like...
Sullla Wrote:My best guess is that LiPing moved inland, didn't see anything useful there, then moved back to the starting tile (or close to it on the coast) and settled on the current turn. We are probably the only team with an inland capital.
TBH, the real danger for Sullla is that he might underestimate LiPing's abilities based on this. LiPing showed that she's very careful and detailed with city micro, which is the exact opposite of what you'd expect from someone spending 2 turns to found a city basically in place. And it's not clear that it'll be obvious via land-counting when LiPing pops her borders, either, since they'll include 2 squares of actual coast. Then again, Sullla is on the opposite side of the donut from Rome. So it will be some time before he realizes just exactly what LiPing's start really ended up being like...