sunrise089 Wrote:I've only been lurking this thread for the past day or so, so do you mind explaining what you mean here?
LiPing made the decision to move the intial settler adjacent to the rice resource. The gold was then visible on T1 after the warrior was moved for max fog-clearing, which then resulted in the settler getting moved closer to the gold (and with iron in the BFC). Had the gold not been visible on T1, it would not have been in the capital. Rome's initial GNP would have been lower, and so on and so forth. So the gold has had a big impact on Rome's game.
Of course, I have been closely following Spulla and just peripherally watching everything else. A more dedicated lurker could probably explain it better than I.