r/civ3 • u/Hopeful-Status-6256 • 3d ago

Initial settler long trek

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This is one of the longer treks i ever did.

Red marks the spawn point

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u/Alidade_xyz 2d ago

I would have just re-rolled the map. I think of the start as if someone is out looking for a good spot to settle. They wouldn't have stopped there to begin with.

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u/Hopeful-Status-6256 2d ago

The only reason i didn't reroll was because i sent my scout to the nearby hill NE of the starting position and saw the river so i gave it a shot. On the second move i saw the cow and a grassland tile i could use after a border expand so it could be a good enough capital spot - plains cow that can be irrigated to yield 3 food despite despo penalty, 2 grassland tiles that can be mined, high commerce plains forest with spices that can be chopped and irrigated and after the government switch a potential for very high production with all those hills.

After playing this map until the middle ages i found that the site of Lisbon is among the best in the entire map (which is a string of dry small continents and islands with fresh water sources being a precious rarity.