I understand that you are willing to allow either, but I would not like to beg that allowance from the other players. Hopefully, the others will permit me to relocate my city.
If I’m allowed to relocate my city, I will send the following:
(I think I’m picturing this correctly)
I’m taking all responsibility for allowing corrections, the other players don’t get a say (I know they would all allow it anyway). This way you don’t have to worry about asking them =P
Any reason for 7-3 woodcutter over 6-4 or 8-3? The former makes full use of the woodland, the latter avoids losing the exploration token. Note that reserving a 3-hex woodland area is a totally valid thing to do for various reasons, so my suggestions are not necessarily better than your stated move.
Ahh! My reasoning was that I thought the exploration token would survive for me to be able to grab later. With that in mind, I will beg permission, yet again, to change my order for Woodcutter to 8-3.
This tripped up both RossM and pillbox, so I’ll reiterate: placing a fishery, inn, city, good, or even pollution on an exploration token discards the token unseen. Any kind of harvesting man will replace an exploration token in own and adjacent hexes with a good (+grass/pollution).
If there’s anything unexpected in that post, please let me know. Any requests for changes to countryside builds will be accepted. I noted that all 3 fisheries were placed to harvest one less fish than possible, but assumed you all had reasons for that, such as saving a water hex for a future luxury goods harvest, or wanting a man back a turn earlier.
Before I give my woodcutter coordinates, does it make any difference which one I harvest first? They are all adjacent to my woodcutter token so I shouldn’t think so
You’d think so, right? Actually, you might find harvesting decisions having significant consequences in the game. Not always, but even early, if you want to maximize a farm area, for instance, which wood you take might be important.
@Whistle_Pig Are you certain about this? 5-19 is a mountain hex, and unlikely to be mined any time soon, while 5-15 will be lost if you build a mine on 4-16. Apologies for second-guessing you.
EDIT: actually, this is probably too much from me. I have gone ahead with the explore, and will refrain from suggestions in the future, unless suggestions are requested.