How City Placement Determines Diplomacy!

[yin26]

A face only a mother could love...as exhibited by the fact that I've been attacked by 4 civs already. Next time, I'll bring two of the end cities up a bit to make the smile a little more inviting. (Note: This layout was entirely by accident...lest you think I'm a complete fool...as opposed to a partial fool, which is widely accepted.)

[Myrddin]

Still playing then?

[Guynemer]

It's the cardboard poisoning. Addictive, obsessive behavior is a late-phase symptom, I'm afraid.

[yin26]

Still playing then?

Indeed! I'll have more to say on that later.

It's the cardboard poisoning. Addictive, obsessive behavior is a late-phase symptom, I'm afraid.

[Solver]

You're bordering five different civs there Yin. And knowing you, seems like you'd cram 7 civs into a small map with aggressive AI, so no surprise you got attacked .

[yin26]

I think it's 6 civs on my border! I held out pretty well, even pulled even in tech...but pretty much had to do that with keeping a pretty thin army. When 3 civs DOW'd in close succession at that point, I was a gonner. I did beat back one of them, though.

Interesting thing about Aggressive AI is that it's like sharks. If they smell blood, it's a feeding frenzy. Poor Alexander in my current game just got DOW'd by 4 or 5 Civs! What's so fun about that is I managed to watch the religious situation, sided with what looked to be the more powerful group, paid one of them to DOW Alexander...was watching the power graph to pick my moment to get a city or two...but before then two civs piled in.

One of them (Cyrus) asked me: "Aren't you going to attack Greece with us?" To which I thought: "ME? Attack Greece? Well, the thought never occured to me before, but since you asked me so nicely..."

[Ninot]

Yin, you're the best.

[DrSpike]

[Will9]

I am playing a game and so far 4 nations have declared war on me. I just noticed that the cities look like a sideways smile face.

[Cort Haus]

I'm glad you're still playing, Yin.