Dry rice or Ocean Fish?

[Nick723]

Which would you rather settle?

(Non creative leader, in the early game)

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Rice, worker can do other things once he farms it.

 

[Qactus]

Fish, because that city will have a food resource.

 

[elmurcis]

Ocean Fish. Only non-pillageable tile (AI or barbs) for most of game. Dry rice is there to settle on

 

[Fippy]

Settle on Rice, reach the fish

 

[Nick723]

Maybe I’m doing this wrong, but I’ve been starting to come to the conclusion that ocean fish are a bit pants…

By my usual methods (work/chop a forest), a city can have a monument in 4 turns. This means that the fish is improved in turn 15. By this point, the dry rice city has a lead of approx 25 food on the ocean fish city (not to mention 60 hammers saved). So the ocean fish city is catching up earliest after 40 turns? I say earliest, because the dry rice city can put those 60 hammers towards a granary and keep the lead for a while longer?

In a world where snowballs are important, that seems quite a long payback?

 

[Mr_Trotsky]

They’re both so poor in the early game that, if they’re my best options, I’d be thinking about taking someone else’s land. For that I guess dry rice is better given it provides it’s limited benefit earlier. However, it’s pretty marginal and I suspect other factors would affect my decision more than deciding between those two unappealing resources. More forests would be enough to sway me I think. Enough forests and I’d probably skip the resources entirely and just settle the trees. I’d also consider not settling another city and go for a two city HA or three city catapult attack.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

Maybe I’m doing this wrong, but I’ve been starting to come to the conclusion that ocean fish are a bit pants…

They are good mid game but early on I'm with you definitely.

 

[Elliot_Ness]

The plus 2 health with granaries and being able to work it faster makes me lean rice. Mid to late game dry rice can usually be irrigated.