October 29th, 2009, 08:41
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I consider overlap alright. Unless there are some recources to grab I like 1E or 2E from the wheat currently most.
Overlap is usually quite beneficial pre-Biology when reaching pop sizes over 15 are not easy to reach. Cities closer to each other are more secure pre-Engineering (cities are 2 turns away from each other). Furthermore cities can share tiles depending on the things they're doing. e.g. in this case there will be ready made mine in the hill when our 2nd city is founded that it could utilise right away.
Main reason to settle further away is to grab land from others, but our 2nd city shouldn't be located to block land from others unless they're very close.