Revised Settler Rule Proposal

[TORARADICAL]

500 for 3? Where'd that come from.

Just something someone from here told me. I forget who now, but they said thats how the MiniGame was.

[=OttomusCeasar=]

Originally posted by Aeson
Another idea would be to allow the owner of the Settler to have the F/P/C from the city center and control of where it's placed. Then the (8) tiles are bid on after the city is founded. Since no one owned the Settlers for our first 3 cities, no one will get those city centers.

I like this idea.

What rules are there going to be in concern to Wonders? If City 1 builds the Pyramids, are other cities going to pay them amount they would have paid for a granary?

[Aeson]

What rules are there going to be in concern to Wonders? If City 1 builds the Pyramids, are other cities going to pay them amount they would have paid for a granary?

Probably would be determined city by city. If enough cities offer enough incentive for the Wonder to the city building it, then the city would build it.

[Inverse Icarus]

So how are settlers going to work? Feudality is going to be building one during the next "turn session", and we need to know now. Pretty much everyone has < $20 at the end of this "trade session", so how can we bid on settlers (or the tiles they will contain)?

How can we buy other (already existing) tiles?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I suspect we should start a poll on it this weekend. Here's the options as far as I can tell.

OPTION ONE
A Settler unit has 8 shares which can be bid on. These shares get ownership of the first eight tiles brought into the civlizations cultural influence. Precedence will be given according to the bid price with the individual with the highest winning bid getting first choice, the second highest winning bid getting second choice and so on.


OPTION TWO
A Settler unit has 8 shares which can be bid on. These shares get ownership of the first eight tiles brought into the civlizations cultural influence. Precedence will be given according to the bid price with the individual with the highest winning bid getting first choice, the second highest winning bid getting second choice and so on.

Four of the shares are the property of the city that builds the Settler and may be auctioned off or assigned as the city sees fit.

Four of the shares are the property of the central government and may be auctioned off or held in order for the tiles to be used later for auction or for new players to choose as their first tile as the central government sees fit.


OPTION THREE
Settler is auctioned off. The winning bidder gets control of the Settler and the central tile the city is on as their tile. All other tiles are auctioned off as normal.


OPTION FOUR
Settler is auctioned off and owns all tiles in its initial radius. There are no shares whoever gets the Settler gets control and all the initial radius squares. Most probably one person will suggest a city site and will get other players to pool money to win the Settler and they will then move to the city site and divide the tiles accordingly. Kind of like a Colony Covenant during the colonial era, they would have a specific area they proposed to found it and then drummed up money and resources to found the colony.