Realms Beyond Epic MP Game

[regoarrarr]

So how did it go? I'm back in town so should be able to play next week, if you guys haven't won already :-)

[Ruff_Hi]

So how did it go? I'm back in town so should be able to play next week, if you guys haven't won already :-)

Game is still going. The french are no more and the Americans are under pressure.

[Dreylin]

and Spain is now in a position to consider making a move outside it's borders and actually contributing!

Madrid is still the single worst Capital I have ever seen. I was so disgusted, I couldn't bring myself to take a screenie, but I will next week just to share the awfulness.

I might also stop complaining at some point!

[Ruff_Hi]

My (Rome) plan for next Wednesday is to finish off Roosevelt and then give all my attack units to either Japan or Spain. Then keep building Preats (maybe giving them away) and work on my economy.

[Sirian]

Madrid is still the single worst Capital I have ever seen.

Trust me, no matter how bad it is, I've seen worse. (I have seen evilness the like of which I made sure nobody else will ever have to endure!)


- Sirian

[Majromax]

I can beat that. In one single player game I played, Cyrus got one (ONE) usable land tile immediately surrounding his capital. The remainder was 6 mountain squares and a lake (or possibly 5/2, I forget exactly now). It was... rather easy to blockade him in. (Highlands map)

[Dreylin]

OK, so this is how I inherited Madrid on Wednesday:



Note especially the lack of any tile which will provide more than 2food before Biology, and my complete dependance on Plains Farms. Also, the presence of three sets of Cows a single tile outside the Fat Cross....

[Atlas]

Yes that is a bad capital. Some might be fooled by the resources, but you can't really work the horses or the iron and grow, once you max out on pop then you can work them both, but it will take forever to get there. I thought a health resource (food bonus) was supposed to be in the Fat cross of every city??

Along the same lines what do people think of Captial-tile-tile-Capital starting positions that have been seen in standard games? Here is an example from Mutineer's "Isabella No Cottages Emperor" post #30 http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread...281&page=2 very tough stuff.

[Gogf]

OK, so this is how I inherited Madrid on Wednesday:



Note especially the lack of any tile which will provide more than 2food before Biology, and my complete dependance on Plains Farms. Also, the presence of three sets of Cows a single tile outside the Fat Cross....

Ouch. What happened there, was the AI in charge of your civ when that city was planted?

[Sirian]

I thought a health resource (food bonus) was supposed to be in the Fat cross of every city??

On most maps. Great Plains is not most maps, though. It has no fiddling with the map at all. The map is produced, and then players are put in the best available locations. You get what you get. The gap in land quality between the first civ placed and the last one placed can be significant on occasion, not only because the best spots are already gone, but because civs placed later must also not be too close to civs already placed, meaning that if seven other civs are placed, the eighth civ may not be getting the eighth best spot on the map, resource-wise, but the twelfth, or even twentieth.

Adapt. That's the name of the game on Great Plains. Adapt to what you find. It is purposely made to give results that differ from standard maps.


- Sirian