What would you need to move your first settler?
If your capitol is infertile, ie. jungle/desert/mountain how infertile would it have to be to move the settler?
How far is it worth moving for a river? A wheat? A floodplain? A cattle, A bonus grassland? 2 bonus grassland? A hill? A luxury? Horses? Coast?
How would this change for OCC or 5CC?
What about Always War?
Or a 2CC simultaneous cultural victory?
Or if you want conquest/domination victory?
When you answer these question please include difficulty level and map size (if applicable).
Ok, thats a lot of questions, but it should give some food for thought. Maybe an experienced player will even be inspired by this to write a thorough strategy article about moving your first settler.
I generally am willing to move very far (4+ spaces) to get money producing luxuries, freshwater, and coast, for a OCC or 2CC. I will even move into heavy jungle to accomplish this (my first OCC I moved my settler 4 or 5 times to get 4 gems, freshwater, and coast, with only 4 non jungle tiles and a nonindustrious civ). This location allowed me to do almost entirely self research on a Monarch OCC, especially after I got Newtons and Copernicus with the Colossus (map was small archipelago). However, in a normal game, the only really important thing is a productive, fertile city with a river. You can pick up luxuries and resources later. It is also very important to start ASAP to get a head start on expansion.
If your capitol is infertile, ie. jungle/desert/mountain how infertile would it have to be to move the settler?
How far is it worth moving for a river? A wheat? A floodplain? A cattle, A bonus grassland? 2 bonus grassland? A hill? A luxury? Horses? Coast?
How would this change for OCC or 5CC?
What about Always War?
Or a 2CC simultaneous cultural victory?
Or if you want conquest/domination victory?
When you answer these question please include difficulty level and map size (if applicable).
Ok, thats a lot of questions, but it should give some food for thought. Maybe an experienced player will even be inspired by this to write a thorough strategy article about moving your first settler.
I generally am willing to move very far (4+ spaces) to get money producing luxuries, freshwater, and coast, for a OCC or 2CC. I will even move into heavy jungle to accomplish this (my first OCC I moved my settler 4 or 5 times to get 4 gems, freshwater, and coast, with only 4 non jungle tiles and a nonindustrious civ). This location allowed me to do almost entirely self research on a Monarch OCC, especially after I got Newtons and Copernicus with the Colossus (map was small archipelago). However, in a normal game, the only really important thing is a productive, fertile city with a river. You can pick up luxuries and resources later. It is also very important to start ASAP to get a head start on expansion.