psweetman1590 (6/25/2007)

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I think we need to look at the big picture.  We're on an island.  We're going to need a big navy, whether for defense or to project our power to other continents.  Now, the city's commerce and production capabilities are important, but it also seems to me that we need as many coastal cities as possible.  Also, as Jerm said, the copper serves no value except a few extra hammers (and possibly a future trading resource, but that means we can wait a long while before having to connect it).  Same thing applies to the gems - we've already got some, getting more will do nothing aside from providing a few extra commerce.

Again, I'm not saying that those extra commerce or hammers aren't important, just that we need to look at the big picture.  I think that a coastal city is a bigger plus than a few optional resources that can be used by a future city in this one's stead.  Sign me up for Red.

Bolan Longpants (6/26/2007)

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This is a difficult one so I would go for orange. Since we're alone on an island we need boats, lots of boats. I say we connect that copper later on. Ship ahoy!

Comedy Dave (6/26/2007)

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#1 I was wondering the same thing...

FADE IN:

        EXT. HADES - DUSK

        We are MOVING TOWARD the Tyrell Corporation across a
        vast plain of industrialization, menacing shapes on the
        horizon, stacks belching flames five hundred feet into
        the sky the color of cigar ash.  The CAMERA MOVES INTO
        a window in the large pyramid-shaped building.  A man
        is sitting at a table.  Another man enters the room and
        sits down.  The following scene is reflected in the eye
        until HOLDEN is seated.


        INT. TYRELL CORPORATION INTERROGATION ROOM - DUSK

        The eye is magnified and deeply revealed.  Flecks of
        green and yellow in a field of milky blue.  Icy fila-
        ments surround the undulating center.

        The eye is brown in a tiny screen.  On the metallic
        surface below, the words VOIGHT-KAMPFF are finely
        etched.  There's a touch-light panel across the top
        and on the side of the screen, a dial that registers
        fluctuation of the iris.

        The instrument is no bigger than a music box and sits
        on a table between two men.  The man talking is big,
        looks like an overstuffed kid.  LEON it says on his
        breast pocket.  He's dressed in a warehouseman's uni-
        form and his pudgy hands are folded expectantly in his
        lap.  Despite the obvious heat, he looks very cool.