New Landscape....

Game 3 is officially underway. Although I had started it when I was getting bored with the 2nd game, this game now has all of my focus. This time I have decided “randomly” choose a landscape. When I saw randomly I ran my finger up and down the list with my eyes shut and where I stopped is what I choose… I want to see if Diamond’s theory that people on the east/west axis along were Mesopotamia lied was holds to be true in the game of Civilization. People are born into their environment, like the people of Papua New Guinea in Diamond’s book- Guns, Germs and Steel. So I decided I would randomly choose my landscape. It will be a neat experiment to keep in mind while playing this game. I have been given the landscape of an “archipelago.” And it is different already. All of you neighbors are not necessarily on the same landmass on you. Which is a lot different from my previous games and already pretty weird. Because of this I have already began to focus on cities along the water and building all types of boats to strengthen a future navy because of this. I figure trade via water and protection is all going to occur through the use of ships, by developing this early I give myself an advantage in this new landscape.