Best starting location

krzyk said:
wow, i'd love to have such location :) But I don't see any horses in the screenshot.
I usually get so few resources nearby :/
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it came in later Kris after animal husbandry. (it like talking to myself):eek:
 
Pretty nice start, especially for Hannibal; the gold and clams leverage his starting techs (Fishing and Mining), as well as his Financial trait. And horses for his UU later, you say? Nice. The only thing missing is a couple of goody huts.

The best one I ever had was an off-line game as Victoria: 5 or 6 flood plains, 3 or 4 hills including a gold mine, corn... and the Settler was on top of a plains hill. For Financial/Expansive starting with Mining (this was a vanilla game, obviously) it was amazing. To top it all off, Iron showed up in the capital's fat cross later on, IIRC. I was ridiculously overpowered in that game. Which is why it was so much FUN. :D
 
I like when my starting location is on a big river that will run through my territory acting as a road between a lot of my inland cities, but yeah, that is a nice start.
 
Boy..plus you're financial = extra gold from 2 clam and gold and have much room for cottages...
I can't believe it isn't worldbuilt. :D

Edit: When I looked at your picture again, I saw that you had 56 gold from a goody hut!
Impossible
 
You should have seen one of the AIs build locations in my game, It had copper, iron, horse, 3gold, and 1 fish! Almost evrey plot around had a resouce no WB was used it just happened in the generating! I'll see if I get a screenie up.
 
I have learned to be calm about starting location, because you never know at 4000 Bc what is around.....could be NOTHING, and it will ruin you nice start, jr you could start mediocre but have GREAT growth opportunities ahead. So...but yeah! It's not bad;)
 
Heres a screenie of the build location I told ya about. Oh and I forgot to mention that they have stone in its radius to! Its totaly unbelievable.:crazyeye:
 

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The Navy Seal said:
Heres a screenie of the build location I told ya about. Oh and I forgot to mention that they have stone in its radius to! Its totaly unbelievable.:crazyeye:
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Next to no food so you'll take forever to exploit even a fraction of those decent resources.

In the first screenie I'd have liked to have much more river before I'd get too excited :D
 
Until you get biology, you cannot exploit them all. You best bet is working the fish (6 extra food) to build your population, then go for the iron (6 ef), then the horses or copper (5 ef), the a gold (3 ef), then the other horse or copper (2 ef), then the other gold (no more growth). Once you get biology the plains square with an irrigated farm would allow your city to continue to grow or add a specialist. But its never going to be a big city.
 
What I like about Navy Seal's city is that you have some nice early game versitility. Need production? Use the fish to work the copper, iron and stone. Need commerce? Use the fish to work the gold. That extra gold will realy help with the early techs and there is a hell of a lot of production available for an early game city. Sure, late game it's never going to be a thriving metropolis but at that point it could win you the game.
 
Whenever I get good starts like that I end up isolated. Hopefully, you will have many neighbors to torment!:)
 



What would you all have done with this start? I was mightily impressed to begin with until I realized that all AI players had similarly good starts. The game has gotten interesting though because none of the others on this continent founded their own religion and we're all Confucianists. I'm currently swallowing up Augustus Caesar's empire with axemen (and I have been incredibly lucky because he didn't get time to hook up his iron, otherwise it would have been game over for me), because this is Prince level and the AI players (particularly Augustus) have been much better able to use their good starts than I have.

Good starting locations aren't worth much on their own. An AI with bonuses getting a good starting location needs to get 'dealt with' because they will always outproduce if one is peaceful. I'm so grateful I didn't have to fight against Praets. Even with this starting location I don't see how I could have won if I had to face an AI with production/research bonuses as well as superpower units.
 
synthboy said:
@ Horizons: I'm curious as to what you researched first.
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In this game I researched agriculture first, and hooked up the corn and the elephant while waiting for bronze working. Copper was only to be found many tiles away to the north-west, and horses were quite far away too. So it wasn't such an amazing start, after realizing how far away those resources were. :)
 
kittenOFchaos said:
Next to no food so you'll take forever to exploit even a fraction of those decent resources.

In the first screenie I'd have liked to have much more river before I'd get too excited :D
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Meh in this situation, coast is pretty much as good as a river, situation begs for great lighthouse to be built, aka coastal trade routes. I was also lucky enough to get marble in my second city. Turned the capitol into a monster gp farm that doubled as a wonder builder. Beauracracy was huge this game.
 
Horizons said:
What would you all have done with this start?
Corn - Cow - Ivory - 4th resource (can't make it out)/floodplain

But i would have gone 1N/1S to not waste the floodplain and help your seccond city
1S - allows floodplain corn and gold for seccond city
1N - great commerce city and allows a resource (preferably cattle) for city to south to become a good early game production site.

Edit: In fact 2N still takes one turn and allows a flood plain for the next city.
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