Er, the size of the world and frequency of cities wasn't in the
startup rules. So your strategy was not "based on the startup rules",
and could have been wrong. You got lucky, and now you are complaining
if your brilliant strategy that you luckily chose might get slowly
changed?
Which brings me back to my initial post: I'm sure Rich will have a
hard time with all the whiners. That's a shame; g1, for example could
have been far more interesting had a few changes been made once it was
realized that beastmastery was more effective than human armies, and
that infinite aura was easy to generate. Both of these were
strategies that people could have claimed were "based on the startup
rules", using the same flawed logic that you did above.
-- g