Btw, if you guys are waiting for me to finish my PPP, I'm stuck. How are we going to decide where we want to settle?
1. What do we want with our first city?
...a. Do we assume it'll remain our capital and focus long-term, since this is space race?
......a1. Will we build as many cottages here as possible? If so, do we prefer as many river tiles as possible?
...b. Do we assume we'll move our capital and focus on REX (or Oracle)?
......b1. Do we want to settle this region so we can cottage every single non-resource flat tile possible?
...c. Do we want to use the 1W site for a National Park city? This could give us a few more GPs toward the end and there's no guarantee there will be another site available with so many forests.
2. Should we think in terms of dot-mapping now, since we know where there are mountains, land, the island, etc.?
...a. If we settle 1S, we can still settle on the protruding tile to the SE, plus next to the fish up NE. Plus, 1S gets another hil in its FC, which can be good for buiding Oxford, etc.
...b. If we settle 1W, we have more options for settling NE and SE and they have a bit more non-overlapping land, but it's possible that fewer of the potential river tiles will be in the capital. On the other hand, the capital wouldn't be sitting on, thereby wasting a river tile. 1W appears to have only 1 hill in its FC.
3. How soon do we want to research Sailing and settle the island? (If barbs or AIs settel it first, we're stuck with their choices. --Assuming there isn't already an AI there!!!
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4. How important is it that we have a few mega-cities and minimizing maintencance costs, as opposed to just maxing our potential 100% research output and figuring out a way to stay at 100%.