azzaman333
meh
There won't be spearmen without teams researching Hunting.
Overall Strategy Thread
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Lord Parkin
aka emperor
Except two teams already started with Hunting. 
azzaman333
meh
I'm fairly sure 4 teams need hunting before the barbs have spears
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
I wasn't worried about the barbs.
azzaman333
meh
There won't be early wars on this map. Building the navy and army to win is too expensive. Other team's spears are not at all a worry.
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
At this point I'm tempted to say, that's what she said.
(Yeah, I know, I probably didn't get enough sleep last night.
)But seriously, I wouldn't rely on some teams (especially Amazons and CDZ) not making opportunistic strikes on other teams' mainland cities. Especially if they can see we're defending them all with a single unit type. But we're getting ahead of ourselves here... we won't be expanding to the mainland before turn 50. So we've got plenty of time to figure out who our nearest neighbours are, what our resources are, and adjust our mainland defense strategy as necessary.
AlphaShard
Emperor
All I was saying is the Market/Grocer/Bank are not worthless, yes we do have to proritize what we build where I understand that.
azzaman333
meh
Not in your science cities. You generally don't have the hammers to build them.
AlphaShard
Emperor
Welll we will in ours. I think all our Island cities will be able to do so.
azzaman333
meh
But it's not cost-effective to do so in most cases.
AlphaShard
Emperor
True but I think our capital and second city should have them. In fact we may want to keep track of where a Wall street city should go. I mean if we start doing binary don't we want all the Multipliers we can get?
azzaman333
meh
That would seem logical, but (if I remember correctly, which I hope I do) it turns out that it's better to specialise in either science or gold, rather than trying to make both in the same city.
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
Yeah, that's correct.
Wall Street needs to either go in a Shrine city or in a Corporation HQ city. It's not really worth it otherwise. But anyway, that's ages down the track.
Unless you're making heavy use of binary, in which case science buildings help on the 100% turns and gold buildings on the 0%.
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
Right, but you should be having many more turns at 100% than turns at 0%, so on the whole the science buildings are still better to prioritise over the gold buildings unless your economy is particularly bad.
Of course short term the priority is to maximize the end of the slider you spend the most time in. I just like to point out the exceptions to "always" and "never" type statements.
We can see more land to our southeast, and we have a route which a fishing boat can travel through to get there. It's unclear if this is 'mainland' or another island. We also see evidence of coast all along the southern edge of our map, but don't have direct routes to it.
Lord Parkin
aka emperor
It could either be a series of islands (one between each team), or a star-shaped mainland (with starting islands between the points). That's about the only way of arranging what we can see into a pattern, as far as I can see.
caveman1917
Warlord
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If the latter it would make sense that we've got only one sea connection, as that would be the only way to balance it with an equal number of out-sticking landmasses and civs.
Edit: from this we could infer overall landmass i guess.
