Artichoker
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- Dec 21, 2007
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My vote is for 1SE (from your current location) to grab the Gold in the 1st city. Then you have good chances for Oracle.
FIN coastal seafood has good chances for oracle anyway.
SE needs lighthouse early to have enough food. With lighthouse it can probably cover all hills without farms.
Early lighthouse+gold is calling for GLH.
Going for GLH and settling towards corner is asking for problem.
Conclusion migrate back to initial place.
+4 tiles suck. few coins does not make clams better than rice considering that for improving two of clams you loose worker [or 90 hammers if you think that way.].
And people still complain about unirigated rice all day long.
[Wanna some growth diagrams?]
Not sure why you settled the Gold city on the Grassland Hill instead of the Plains Hill. Settling on the Plains Hill would have given +1 hammer and the ability to share the clam with the capital.
Edit:
Wang Kon is protective, but you have Skirmishers and Ivory access. An early takeover of this continent (if indeed Wang Kon is the only neighbor) would give you a head start in competing with the other AIs. The combination of Elephants and Skirmishers would be an effective counter to his Hwachas.
I honestly don't have a good answer for that other than I've been playing lousily as of late (especially offline games... oh my). The only other answer I can provide is to get more coastal tiles (rather than sea tiles).
WK does appear to be the only AI on the landmass since he has a bit more EP against me. An elephant war (or maybe even a quick detour to HAs) could be worth it definitely.
4F 3C is a lot better than unirrigated rice (which is irrelevant as we have no such option in the capitol this game...I do understand that the work boat isn't an insignificant up front cost though). The AI weights that as a 52 value, while the pigs here are 56 (DaveMCW would score it 22.5 to 19). The work boat is costly but people underestimate the value of early commerce. Working all 3 seafood has a higher commerce yield than a gold mine.
Fish IS a lot better though. I love seeing coastal fish, only irrigated corn/wheat compete with it long term, although early on I might prefer a flat grassland pig also.
I settled 1SE of the start position, so I didn't get to work the gold . Hax.