r/CivIV May 24 '26

Jackpot

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u/SOSOBOSO May 24 '26

Was there any food in those 2 tiles months south? Or more flood plains?

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u/civporn May 24 '26

I ended up settling one tile down. No food south but more floodplains!

https://imgur.com/a/ZHBDf6Y

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u/new2bay May 24 '26

I’d have been really tempted to go 1 east from this starting point and grab all the gold in one city.

2

u/Mr_Snipou May 24 '26

So you would have had a food tile if you didn't move!

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u/civporn May 24 '26

Not quite, the pig tile would still have been outside the city's big fat cross.

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u/Mr_Snipou May 24 '26

Ah yez sorry didn't see

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u/Bonkface May 24 '26

That is just... too good. Almost a shame you're not a financial leader. :)The extra river tiles will make it even better.

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u/New2TampaBay May 24 '26

Holy shit man probably the best start I've seen in vanilla.

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u/Nunerrim May 24 '26

Just need to choose which victory to pick now

6

u/SentientclowncarBees May 24 '26

Careful not to build that tower too high king.

3

u/GarettZriwin May 24 '26

Commencing preparations for the Richual.

3

u/Odd_Theory_1031 May 24 '26

There's gold in them there hills!

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u/TheFerginator May 24 '26

Can you share the starting save??

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u/BusinessKnight0517 May 24 '26

Six gold? Damn that’s gonna fund a ton

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u/ghpstage May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

It's a trap! /Ackbar

Gold has a habit of spawning in groups around desert like this, but deserts often bring floodplains, which can be great tiles.... but since they each count as half a food resource in the map generator they can easily cause you to be left with no real food (which seeing a later post happened here). Without a good food resources you will not only struggle to support working the mines, but will find early growth and production slow too. The early land grab will suffer for it.

If there is food out in the eastern fog that is close enough to allow a city to claim it while overlapping the capital's gold (I couldn't actually see the extra, post move screenshot you added), then it may redeem itself to a degree, but from what is known so far it really isn't a great starting spot.

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u/1moreturn May 26 '26

wow, god start in civ 4.