Gold bonanza

[Footie Mad]

You know when you start a game, and you find a city site with a gold mine or even two that can boost your early tech or feed an early expansion.... I just happened upon the silliest one I have ever seen in hundreds of games, if I started next to a place like this I'd probably restart but seeing as it wasn't next to my capital I decided to roll with it.


This is a pangea game on emperor, large map and all standard settings.

[]LoL[Harm]

Sweet mother of mercy.

I had an odd setup for my starting city two games ago, no screenshot howerver. I started with four crabs, a cow pasture, corn and wheat all in the fat cross. Largest city I ever had in any game, hit in the upper-mid 30's.

[Solver]

You won't have enough food to work it anyway

[sneaky]

That's just silly.

Only, where should you settle to take full advantage of such a possibility? Two tiles south of the corn? Or should you perhaps settle two cities? One with access to the gold, the cow and oasis and one with access to the corn and the rest of the gold? I am bad at city placement, and I wonder how people would play this.

[Proteus_MST]

I would settle directly south of the hills with the gold, at the pllains adjacent to the ocean.

Would be a nice spot with 5 golen hills in the fat X

[MattDoyle]

Without seeing more of the map I would go: 2 south 1 east of the corn (i.e. directly above the middle gold)

Another city in the desert sw of the cows

Another one out near the oasis copper + other gold, probably eastof the oasis

[RuneofDoom]

I'd actually build 1 city just under and 1 to the right corn , giving it access to 2 of the gold. Then I'd build a second city on the coastal plains tile at the bottom of the screen. It would have access to the other 3 plus the river for food. Then it would be manageable to harvest all that gold.

Not that it matters - I imagine this game is wrapped up about now - interesting how people approach simple expansion so much differently though!

[Tattila the Hun]

Those are rather nice, often giving me a nice monopoly...