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Sisiutil, let me chime in here as well. I followed the 60% rule for a while, largely because the rest of the guide is so well written, and the guide as a whole is so well-regarded. Skilled players point new players to your guide. I had to get rid of this habit. I think about it this way: the...

When he had finished all his teaching, Drona called his students, one by one, apart from the rest. High in a treetop was a bird of straw and cloth for a target; he called Yudhishthira and said, "Take your bow, and aim an arrow to cut off its head." While Yudhishthira stood aiming at the bird...

Quite instructive. Thank you.

I'm sensing this more and more. It's no excuse, but I actually hadn't scouted the cow to the NE of Bombay until 2 turns after I settled Bombay. I definitely felt a twinge of regret when it got revealed, and that regret seems well-founded. There seems to be a consensus that when settling...

Never mind - I looked this up. Thanks for the tip. I assumed barb spawns were based on line-of-sight. EDIT: I'm sure most if not all of the people reading this thread know how Ghpstage would allocate those three units to spawnbust the entire area. But for the the help of possible newbie...

I totally do not yet have the eye for this. Does it involve clever use of hills and coastline? I was under the impression that experiments had been run that showed that long-term growth in all production factors was improved by immediate chops and/or rushes on a granary build, regardless of...

Thanks for the link, WelshGandalf. :goodjob:

And in Indraprastha, in the thick darkness, the rain soaked Arjuna's peacock-feather hat, while under a leaky tree Krishna was telling him of their past lives together. - from the Mahabharata ----- In this turnset I found out India's not isolated, not even semi-isolated. Heeding...

Maybe I overestimate the drawbacks of settling on FPs and commerce resources. Thank you for your help.

The desire to possess is at the root of all anxieties. - Ramayana ----- T36 - India: animal husbandry > wheel. Horses are revealed on the NW peninsula, but the inlets surrounding the N peninsula suggest that if we settle a marginal city, it ought to choke off the NW peninsula if at all...

T0 - India researches agriculture. Delhi builds a fast worker. T2 - Scouting warrior finds coast and ice borders to our south, so time to head north. T9 - India: Agriculture > bronzeworking. T15 - Delhi: fast worker > warrior. Grow to size 2 before building. T24 - It's been awfully...

I thought this only came much later in the game? Also I figure that if we take agriculture > animal husbandry we work the cows tile and a farmed FP on 2 pop, building settler. If we take wheel/pottery, laying down a farm and a pasture, and cottage 2-3 FPs before BW comes in it's a long time...

I threw the 2d map away I got also, which had 2 deer only on a bunch of plains and tundra. :lol: Here's a likelier start: I'm thinking SIP and agriculture > bronzeworking > animal husbandry, though our warrior move may throw that out the window. I dislike settling directly on FP unless...

I don't know, seems like there's a large sandwich of a certain kind that the capital can take a bite of! Seriously though, I know the start's terrible - and now that you point it out I realize the best tile this capital's going to get is a +1 food. It's hard to imagine a worse start...

But it's better to build a large fogbusting army unless you have stone or are going for fail cash, right? This start will be fiendish enough without early wonder-chasing...

I remembered that in the end of turnset pics but not in all of them. There's a weird thing where you can't simultaneously see resource bubbles and make tile signs, and I am bad at remembering to CTRL-R every time after I make a sign :( Yields are on permanently though, so I don't have to...

May this ancient Bharata become a jewel garland that will never leave you. Duryodhana causes all creatures to be slain and wastes the earth; he fans the flame of hostility that at last consumes all. But in my opinion life is taken with every breath. What do you think? -from The Mahabharata...

Thanks for all this!

Supposing I don't know why map size ought to scale to game speed, how would I find out more about this?