Where to Settle?

[Smellycowsquid]

Where to settle?(The Triangle is A)

[snoopy369]

Clearly A.
* More forest (by not settling on it...)
* More resources
* Fewer water squares (good for FIN civs, but I generally don't like them in a capital)

Losing the 1 food the harbor would provide is negligible

[fani]

But he is also losing the potential lucrative trade routes of a coastal city...gets a -1 health from the jungle untill IW which might become -2 if the jungle expands...apart from the facts i would trust that the starting location is better for the three upper tiles of the city which are not visible yet...

[Qwertqwert]

What is that 2 squares to the left of A?

[Smellycowsquid]

Jungle Gems.

[Swiss Pauli]

Move the scout to the grassland hill to reveal a bit more map.

[Dominae]

I would move to A in order to work the Rice. Getting your capital to work high output tiles early on is more important than later-game concerns like coastal access (except on an Archipelago map). Conveniently, the A site also puts the Gems within reach.

Grasslands are better than Coasts.

With the information we have now, I would place my second city on the blue circle to the South. It's coastal and can share the Rice and Banana with the capital if needed. I would not be be surprised to find some sort of seafood down there as well...

[johnmcd]

Who cares, if you make the wrong choice regenerate.

[cynyck]

Originally posted by Swiss Pauli
Move the scout to the grassland hill to reveal a bit more map.

I agree.

[Blake]

In this case I don't think it's really going to matter since there's enough good resources around to support several cities.

My gut instinct would be to move the settler 1-right and settle on the coast, going settler first and creating a second city, possibly on the blue circle between the rice and gems (altough scouting may reveal a better site). It seems that 'A' might block off a good city site, a seafood resource in the bottom-left would be unaccessable by the looks of things altough it is possible I'm reading the shape of the coast wrongly.

Note: Farmed, the rice is 4-0-0. The farmed bananas are 4-0-1, farms the nanas first.

[trev]

I would move to the plains hill, it gives an extra hammer, unless extra scouting shows a better place.

[Will9]

How do you have a warrior and scout?

[Smellycowsquid]

The warrior started just south of A, popped a Scout from a hut, and scout went back north.

[Will9]

Makes sence.