Greetings all. Just checking in. I'm on a work computer at the moment so can't roll out CivIV for any testing yet, but I'll definitely be doing some this weekend.
This is of course based on the assumption that my computer can still run CivIV given that half my CPU doesn't work
But worst case scenario, I'll just commandeer my partner's laptop.
Settling 1W is my strong instinct on this start, but of course warrior moves may affect things.
What could the warrior discover:
Move NE: Seafood in water + possible something on land to the NE. The downside is that to pick up any new land tile, we have to move the city E & NE, which means not settling till turn 3, so that would have to be a impressive set of tiles spotted by the warrior. Settling 2NE is also possible on turn 2, but we'd have to decide to move that way almost blind as the warrior won't have spotted anything yet, and most importantly we lose the corn.
Move SE: This allows the warrior to spy most of the relevant water squares, and could potentially allow us to discover something interesting on the E-2SE square (Gold, Gems, Pigs?). This might make the 2E settling spot go up in value.
So based of mabrahams deduction that oasis blocks vision, my gut feeling is: Move warrior SE. If impressive stuff found, consider settling 2E, otherwise settle 1W
One thing is that resources tend to be spaced out a little bit. They're often a knight's move away from each other, so I feel lucky about the 2W-SW tile.
My brain is also trying to dredge up memories from years ago about something about metals being less likely/impossible to (naturally) spawn on certain tiles next to rivers but I don't remember which ones. I could of course just be making that up....