Second City Placement

[Furiey]

For anyone interested in RCP distances for these locations here's a rings piccy:

 

[deo]

Wow many gems are there in the south... Why not placing a city there in the number 7. It's only 5 tiles from the capital away and has a river

 

[Cyc]

Well, it looks like I'll have to take a page out of your book, Cyc. Well, we seem to have most of the discussion done (mostly from the last thread), so I'm going to post a poll tomorrow with a proper 2-day length, all proposals listed, and "abstain" and "other" options. Simple is best, I guess...

Simple is right. 0632 PDT

 

[Provolution]

Well, discussion has more options now...

 

[Cyc]

Name the additional options since Noldodan posted, Provolution.

 

[blackheart]

Didn't we have some sort of poll on this already?

 

[Provolution]

Blackheart has a suggested option SE of til option C.

 

[Noldodan]

Uh oh... I hadn't realized the chat was that early. Guess the poll will have to be cut short at 42 hours. I'll be posting it in a couple minutes.

 

[Noldodan]

Well, since the chat was cut off at 1 turn, the city was not founded. So now we have a good opportunity to break the impasse. In the last poll, sites C and D were tied at 13-13, so now we're having a repoll, which will last for 2 days.

 

[DaveShack]

When can we expect the tiebreaker poll between C and D to be posted?

 

[Donovan Zoi]

If I may add to this..........

Due to the circumstances surrounding the Babylonian Warrior, do we even want to consider either site at this time? IIRC, the blue-clad warrior is standing all to close to both prospective sites. Even with a gpt appeasement deal, I still don't like the idea of two undefended cities within the Bab Warrior's grasp.

So perhaps our new decision would be:

1. Press on with the C/D debate
2. Choose an alternate location away from Bab Warrior
3. Keep our Settler in Fanatikku until it is safe to proceed.
4. Rejoin our Settler to Fanatikku so that we may poprush a defender if necessary.

Obviously, the last choice is a bit harsh, but I figured I'd cover all the options. Are we missing any?

 

[Noldodan]

Darn you DZ! Just when I was going to post the poll, you bring those options up. Well, I can't say that we shouldn't consider them, so... discuss them. You have 1 day, after which I will post the poll. Personal feelings: Settle on D.

 

[gert-janl]

I would prefer that our settler moves to a safe place and waits with settling untill we have some defenses. But on the other hand...the fact that the babylonians reached us this soon, means that they are very near, and a fast expanding empire is required!

Maybe we should find another citysite, away from the warrior, so that our growth isn't very hampered by this 'suprise'.

 

[Sir Donald III]

And, in my opinion, this presence means that we need to secure all the resources we can NOW.

I once again favor the site immediately North of the Horses.

 

[Cyc]

As stated in DG5JR9, our Domestic Advisor has the Constitutionally protected right to declare the information gleaned by the poll concerning the placement of the second city as valid. In doing so, has the ability to cast a tie-breaking vote. Further discussion and/or polling is not needed as the people have already spoken in regards to their preference of city site.

Noldodan may continue the debate about city placement here in this thread, and then take that information to weight the results of the poll. This is his choice. As the matter has already been polled and recorded, a second poll is optional.

The new information brought up by DZ and/or others is intriging, but does not necessitate new polling.

Personally, I support placing the city on site D.

 

[Provolution]

Frankly , at this point, it is more or less the same where we place that city.
The procedures so far has been so messy, that a direct executive decision is the most proper thing to observe. Elections should have some bearing in this game, not just be a shallow polling exercse for some fancy titles.