[NO PLAYERS] PB48 Mapmaking and Lurkers

[Hollybombay]

Might be too late, but i noticed alot of the foodless areas between players. Intended?

[Cornflakes]

Might be too late, but i noticed alot of the foodless areas between players. Intended?

I took a closer look at the wider areas over the weekend and made numerous changes to the food resource types/placement. For the most part I kept quality/quantity the same, just shifting things by a tile or two to give more consistent options for 2nd/3rd cities. I took another quick look while editing the leaders/civs into the map but didn't change anything from where I had left it over the weekend. There are some food poor areas between players but I don't think that is an issue. If anything the starting areas are still more lush than the typical random map. The center in general is a jungle wasteland that will take some time and effort to hack down.

[Hollybombay]

Updated map for a shadow game?

[Charriu]

Just got this from Raskol:

Hello there,

Is your game going well?
How do you find the map?

Cheers,
Raskolnikov

He is too friendly, most likely up to something already. Also fishing for info about the quality of my start. I will ask him to interface with Irismono.

Paranoia is starting pretty early for some players

[AutomatedTeller]

I was looking through the threads and TBW has completely missed what Raskolnikov is doing with his 2nd city, which is put it on stone and build stonehenge.

That will be a hell of a city, assuming he gets henge, btw. 3 hammer middle, pigs, copper grass hill, marble - I dunno - if I were him I might settle one more city and build a stack.

or, I guess, build mids.

[El Grillo]

[...] I believe that SD needs to die but I am not going to tell him about it. [...]

[AutomatedTeller]

Huh - Raskol sacrificed a worker to save a city from a barb, but given the city situation, it wasn't going to enter anyway, if they just moved the worker away, was it?

[Hitru]

Gav taking over diplo is just what lurkers need   . I'm sure SD will take that message well

[El Grillo]

Gav's "Hi!" leading up to that warning/threat just about killed me. I suppose superdeath could always settle the two southern corn sites as dotted, but a small part of me would be tempted to settle a city 1E of Gav's line in the sand, but way down south, just on principle :3

[Commodore]

Gav's "Hi!" leading up to that warning/threat just about killed me. 

Okay, this is what we've missed not having full-diplo games. Gavagai and Superdeath as close neighbors was an inspired bit of mapmaking.