Offshore colonization madness

[RedFuneral]

That's a potential scenario yes, and you have a point that it would be a potential strategy. But that's not what's being discussed, Hiawatha does not utilize Commerce policies in my current game. It does make sense from the AI:s POV aswell but it's not really nice how it plays out in gameplay, I think this is an unintended consequence of the patch and it's changes to offshore settling. I also noticed AI:s lose loads of settlers to barbs. I'm sure Firaxis will correct these issues in time but it's still annoying.

Settlers and workers alike. In one of the latest Pangaea games I played I saved Askia's workers at least 4 times within the first 100 turns. It was an easy way to earn his friendship at least. I'm really not sure what his worker was doing there in the first place, it was quite a bit south of his cities and in the mountain pass between us that had a few barbarian camps in it.

 

[Hustapha Thool]

Hmm a lot of nice strategic resources in that cluster.

 

[Zenstrive]

yeah, they won't be reluctant to plop down cities anywhere empty now..