Gavagai's spoiler thread

[Gavagai]

(Actually, we don't really need Fur that early, so a different spot for a second city may be an option. But it goes without saying that city #2 should share one of capital food resources.)

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Yeah, 1 NE of the fur seems like a good second city location. We really need to split off a food resource with our second city. The second city can build a worker first if you want to whip the capital for a second settler. Regardless, I think you should post in the tech thread cause it looks like Zaldax is going to hold up the game again

EDIT: Semi X-Post

EDIT 2: The fur is a rather good tile at 2-1-5, only a slightly worse gem mine, so it makes sense to settle for it early anyway

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Oh and this is way too early to talk about, but I really don't see why a Code of Laws rush is warranted, I'd much rather skip the religious line and pick up CoL through currency. It's not like wel'll need a bunch of courthouses pre-turn 100 anyway

[Gavagai]

That will actually depend on the amount of happy we have. Shorter cooldown period between slaves may turn out to be well worth 45 hammers pretty early. Also, I think I would want to pick up a religion. We are definitely not taking early ones and Confucianism seems a good candidate

[Oxyphenbutazone]

We might get an early religion, nobody else starts with mysticism, and if we get meditation after pottery we'll have it in the early 50's, which is pretty early. I mean, unless somebody is a complete noob and starts mysticism->meditation

[Gavagai]

Oxy, feel free to log in and look around. Password is "darius".

...we will need to think about naming theme.

[Gavagai]

4S from capital is a baller city spot, your cap.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Riverside oasis

2S of the sheep looks like a pretty nice second city....

Edit: Another X-post

[Gavagai]

Even the small amount of land we can see is enough to determine that fast horizontal expansion and dense settling is the way to go here - land is good. So, yes, we will need altars pretty soon.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Define soon: before currency? Before math?