Humantorch
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jun 12, 2014
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Not sure where you're getting at with either of those points.
First, I'm pretty sure you'll find the majority of people will say that spacing cities six (much less seven) tiles apart is unnecessarily far... the likelihood of working all of those tiles is extremely minimal and that's assuming you've filled up all your specialist slots. Yes, bunching several cities together three tiles apart is likely a bad idea, but sometimes it's necessary to put cities that close to grab certain resources.
Secondly, you might want to take another look at the screenshots provided... the only city not on the coast is Moscow and it's hard to fault the OP from settling in place with that start.
Back to the original topic, I think this map is a classic case in which there sometimes aren't ideal places to settle. Moscow really is in a fantastic spot, but given that this is an island and there aren't really many other consensus no-brainer settling spots, this map was generated to frustrate anyone who starts in this location.
I like to try and space my cities out so that I can cover the maximum amount of land with a minimum amount of cities. 2 super producing 30 citizen cities are better than 4 cities on top of each other that over lap tiles as soon as they're settled and never get past 10 citizens.
The placement is bad because there's no land route from his capital to st pete. This is especially bad because his capital is not on the coast so he can't even reinforce the city with a navy. I don't understand what's hard to miss about isolating your first city from the capital being a bad thing. If he was playing anything other than prince, that indefensible city would already be gone.