Snake River
iPhone Notes

{The following being the raw notes I made to myself, when designing this map.  The two line drawing images also came off of my iPhone.}


Trick it out {ideas on how to make it better; or at this point, ideas for future maps}:
  1: Shangri La, an isolated city in the mountains (in-accessible).  So, one would need paratroopers to capture. 
  2: Lakes, inaccessible plots in the mountains to make it look better
  3: Don't use every resource (like Dye or Marble)


Strategies:
  1: Whip Mechanics. Food not lost. 30 hammer base per whip (20 if no production in item, Wonders are 15... or 10 if no hammers). No more than half population can be whipped.  This will be part of the game write up.
  2: Found multiple cities on the periphery of the food to share that food... in the beginning, at least. Brings to mind a Desert Map, low resource, multiple one population, desert cities, being key to winning. 
  3: Disband scouts to save on upkeep... or should not care if destroyed... perhaps should contact all four, first, for technological research boost. 


Players:
  1: Orange, Netherlands, sushi water buffalo, islands
  2: Vikings, tundra water north, iron, archipelago 
  3: Incan, high mountains, rich in gems, jungle
  4: Spanish Isabella, horse plains, middle, kingpin
  5: India, Elephants, bottom marsh 


{The First Image went here, explaination of sorts, below}

Img 1: layout, black Viking, red Isabella, blue Incan, yellow India, orange Dutch, green equalizing swampy jungle, black bold solid mountains, blue separating water


Resources to be concentrated and limited to five each (4-7). Actually, having some very limited might be interesting. 

{So, I was thinking about having only one of each of these for awhile.}
1 iron
1 copper
1 horse
1 elephant
1 oil if can last long enough???


A thick Northern Forest covering Viking, Incan, and Isabella's territory.

{And a solid Southern Jungle, covering a quarter of the map, slowing the growth towards the middle.}


This is the Standard Map Size
  80x50=4000 tiles
  Split into 4 wide x 3 tall conceptual blocks
  11 is bottom left
  43 is upper right
31 total resources split among 12 squares.
I didn't use much of the above, at all.


{I spent some degree of thought trying to decide, who got what resources (per below).  But I didn't use this go-by.  I just went down the list in the World Building, doing what seemed sort of fair.}

Luxury Resources:
  Dyes MakeUp
  Furs Viking 
  Gems Incan 
  Gold Incan 
  Incense Indian
  Ivory Indian/Spain
  Silver Spain 
  Spices Indian 
  Sugar Indian
  Wine MakeUp
  Whales Dutch 


Food Resources:
  Bananas Indian/Incan
  Clam Dutch 
  Corn Incan 
  Cows Dutch
  Crab Dutch/Viking
  Deer Viking 
  Fish Dutch
  Pigs Viking/Isabella 
  Rice Indian
  Sheep Viking/Isabella
  Wheat Viking/Isabella


Strategic
  Aluminum in the Southern Jungle
  Coal Northern Jungle
  Copper Jungle
  Horses Isabella 
  Iron All or Northern
  Marble All
  Oil Southern Jungle
  Stone All
  Uranium Northern


Be sure to give each civilization resources it needs for its custom unit. I will have to think hard about limiting resources. 


{The Second Image went here, an explanation of sorts, below.}

Img 2: Vikings ponds up north, Incan river leads to spring pond waterfall through mountains, so iron over here, perhaps both sides, desert on Dutch shore can kill land as well as water


Debriefing Notes:
  1: Having my Capitol start with a religion didn't take, as whoever researched meditation first still founded a religion.
  2: How much did I swerve from goal... and should I add Shangri La?
  3: Adding Barbarian Animals was a nice touch.
  4: I found the images to be helpful.  I also stared at tiles in the shower to organize 'native territory', my perceived split of the board. 

{And that is that.}

2018-05-16
(c) Copyright Brett Paufler