Fill-in the gaps

[Shiber]

Now that we've, uh... "acquired" new territory from the French we need to fill in the gaps in our new territory. I have opened this thread to discuss where we should send settlers to and by what order.
I have made two images that show my proposal for the next city sites. The numbers are merely for reference, not to suggest a certain order by which these cities should be founded.
I urge you to comment as well as to voice your own opinion on the matter.

Note: I cannot upload images for some reason. The forums says: "The image that you have attached is too big. Please make it no bigger than 600 x 0."
I've uploaded them to the web instead.
Map 1.
Map 2.

[OPD]

Should we build a settler right away?

[Panag]

hi ,

here is the first map

have a nice day

[Panag]

hi ,

the second one

have a nice day

[Panag]

hi ,

we should fill those gaps , asap , ....

and in the future we should keep a couple on stand-by , ....

have a nice day

[Shiber]

Thanks Panag!

[Panag]

Originally posted by Shiber
Thanks Panag!

hi ,

no problem , ....

have a nice day

[Hagbart]

I think it's very important to get more cities since we are far behind. Your suggestion to place them seems ok. But the poor people will be living in the jungle.

[notyoueither]

Not for long with the number of workers we have now.

[Panag]

Originally posted by Hagbart
I think it's very important to get more cities since we are far behind. Your suggestion to place them seems ok. But the poor people will be living in the jungle.

hi ,

well those people shall not be poor , ..

we also need to make some in depth defense , ...

we dont need one , but we need a couple , ...

and we should get a couple settlers for future use , ..

have a nice day

[Shiber]

notyoueither, you make me proud to be an Apolytonian.

[Panag]

hi ,

Paris needs to expand , so we get that wine , ....

NYE ,

have a nice day

[GhengisFarb™]

I think #4 should be moved one square SE. so it can gobble that grassland by the river (one more tile within our cities' radii and it doesn't give up any tiles not already covered by existing cities) and be one square closer to the capital.

To me this is a justified use of settlers, but these will be put on hold if we raze Rhiems, Chartres and Munich.

That's 9 settlers, in other words we have to reduce all of our Four Core cities to size 1. Leaving us with nothing but size 1's and 2's in the ENTIRE empire. Then we'd have to do it again.

[Panag]

hi ,

GhengisFarb , we might aswell do it now , or otherwise risk of not being on the block in a short while , ...

have a nice day

[GhengisFarb™]

I'm going to start calling this the "caulking" thread. And all the people in favor of "filling gaps" are going to be referred to as "Caulkers".