City planners Poll

[Zedd]

Ok i don't want to make a dozen threads so I will poll as many options as i can here.

First is the issue of Vigo and this Tireme, The minister of war needs diplos and Vigo can not support that tireme into a republic without cuting shield production down too low (2 or 3 tops ) So My suggestion is to Change that tireme to diplo imediately.

Choices a: finish the ship b. Build the dip

Second Seville has a "special" hidden in its grasslands. we could mine this into forrest and get the Phesant (3food 2 shield) or the silk (1food but 3 trade)

Choices a.make me a forrest b. leave it alone (for now)

Third Barcelona Has one too many tiremes in its care as far as i am concerned. If we move it to Freeport that city will easily support it. then Barcelona could concentrate on building a diplomatic force to charge our enemies with.

Choices a:Move the boat b. Leave the boat
c. build dips d build other

Fourth Leon Is building a settler next turn(at size 3) and It is allready going to be strapped for shields in republic and with one of the workers turned settler there will just be enough food in a republic to support the settler which means no city growth. My suggestion is to wait until a couple more citizens arrive there before building a settler.

Choices a. build settler b. build market
c. build library d. build barracks for vet units later e. other (please make a suggestion )

I should also explain that there are lots of forrest and mountains that we can mine for shields, so this will be a good production city, but the pop is not ready to build a settler yet. Granada however is building a settler and that one could easily come over to help out its neighbor

Fifth and last. Malanga is ready for a harbor. however it supples beads and salt which are each in big demand so i wish to finish the caravan building there now, build one more to carry the other comodity and then build harbor to stimulat growth.

Choices a. good plan b. build harbor next not 'van c. other (again make a suggestion please )

[Zedd]

Here is sevil and its grassland

[Zedd]

here is barcelona

[Zedd]

oops forgot the pic

[Zedd]

the boat

[Zedd]

Leon

[Zedd]

and malanga, sorry but i don't know how to ge t more than one pic on here at a time and my paint shop pro is not re-loaded yet.

[JCP]

Originally posted by Zedd
Here is sevil and its grassland

Is the hidden special sure ?
The map is too narrow to see it !

[JCP]

Re: City planners Poll

Originally posted by Zedd
Fourth Leon Is building a settler next turn(at size 3) and It is allready going to be strapped for shields in republic and with one of the workers turned settler there will just be enough food in a republic to support the settler which means no city growth. My suggestion is to wait until a couple more citizens arrive there before building a settler.
Choices a. build settler b. build market
c. build library d. build barracks for vet units later e. other (please make a suggestion )
....

If the settler is almost built, changing for an improvment costs 50% of the saved gold !

[JCP]

Re: City planners Poll

Originally posted by Zedd
I should also explain that there are lots of forrest and mountains that we can mine for shields, ...

Mining hills, OK !
But not Forests : they already have 2 shield, then 3 when railroaded !

[JCP]

Re: City planners Poll

Originally posted by Zedd
Ok i don't want to make a dozen threads so I will poll as many options as i can here.

BTW, I agree with all the remainder!

[Zedd]

Here is a more braod snapshot of just the terrain.

The orange circles represent parts of the regular specials pattern, the blue circle is an "odd ball" pattern of 3-5 and the red is the grassland in question.

[ixnay]

So is there some sort of pattern to special resources appearing on the map? I'd never heard of anything like that before.

[cavebear]

There is a general pattern of specials. You find one, and you look East/West. The specials go East/West by special, 1, 2, 3, 4, special, 1, 2, special, 1,2,3,4, special.

But not always, and it fails at the 0 latittude, which messes up all counts. I've mined terrain there there "should" be a special and nothing happens.

But it is often worth trying and we have a lot of Settlers. I'm willing to spend some Settler effort on it. I *do* look for those patterns. Heck, we are running out of terrain to improve in soime locations, so some exploratory mining or terrain change might pay off.

I would particularly like to find some good hills to mine, too...

[MrWhereItsAt]

I never knew the specials thing either.

So... does that mean (amongst others) this square is a special?