(October 1st, 2024, 13:41)ljubljana Wrote:(October 1st, 2024, 13:21)Tarkeel Wrote: To be fair, this was a start that was hard to dot-map, but I think I'd have sucked up the river penalty and settled on the plainshill N of the city.
right, another thing i was disproportionately obsessed with in the early-game was settling such that all my cities would eventually be levee-eligible where possible. in my defense though, that did actually matter! i think the difference between my 12ish domestic levee cities and dreylin's, i think, one or two was a pretty significant factor in our lategame MFG turnaround (at least vis a vis the ottomans), especially given that we ended up getting steam power (on the way to rails) just ages and ages before progressing on to assembly line. not that it would have justified more significant sacrifices, but in retrospect i think it proved to be non-insane as a tiebreaker between otherwise close-call spots like mitakeumi and the 1N hill
Yay, I'm still getting lambasted for not factoring Levee's into my city placement! Also, you're welcome.
The only other thing to mention was your offer to liberate Lungfish that I kept refusing; I haven't dug around for context, but I had literally no way of meaningfully defending it from Ginger so it made more sense to leave you in control. I saw a comment from Ginger that they thought it would be worse if you liberated it ... and I'm just now realising that if I'd accepted the liberation then your units could have also have stayed around to defend it even if I couldn't and now I feel foolish.
