Re: Advanced Start Feedback

**Ebenezer** · 05-15-2008, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Bernout

If you want to place that second city in a good location then you need to suck up the points and use the visibility feature.
Bernout

To see enough of the map to make that decision, it would have took buying visibility for 15-20 tiles or so just in that one direction, which would mean not placing the city anyway due to lack of points. Or a scout could have determined the same thing in 2-3 moves.

**Hoplosternum** · 05-17-2008, 02:35 PM

Hmmm, well I still prefer no advanced start. Or at least cutting the points back. You can get a lot of stuff for 600 points and I think it has advanced the game too quickly. You can skip the 'nothing to do in my turn' by giving everyone much less than 600 points.

I think it's too early to say which strategy is best for advanced start. I suspect it does depend on who you were next to and what terrain you were on.

**AFsoccer** · 05-17-2008, 05:31 PM

You're in first place. How could you complain?

**Shaq Zora** · 05-20-2008, 01:56 PM

I love advanced start and I think most people prefer it. If you don't have it, it will be weeks and weeks until something semi interesting happen...

**JMaltman** · 05-20-2008, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by Ebenezer

To see enough of the map to make that decision, it would have took buying visibility for 15-20 tiles or so just in that one direction, which would mean not placing the city anyway due to lack of points. Or a scout could have determined the same thing in 2-3 moves.

Which pushes in favour of starting a scout & settler together in your border city in that less than certain direction?

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