What's the best starting base location?

[TheUbiquitous]

Personal favorites:

To min-max the land area covered by radar:

North America: Detroit

S. America: Lima, Peru

Africa: Cairo

S. Asia and Australasia: Hengchung, Taiwan (Southernmost tip of the island)

I typically start with Cairo and Taiwan for the sake of covering as many lucrative funding areas as possible, followed --- if I get that far --- by Detroit, to cover the whole continent of North America. These four bases cover pretty much what needs to be covered. This assumes that places within regions matter no more than any other places.

Any better ideas?

[Max_Caine]

There was a bit of discussion on that in this thread. I agree that leaving NA and SA until the third base is a smart move - getting the funding (esp. early game) isn't easy and it is better to leave some backers in the black until I can get around to them.

[Buzzles]

As Max says, there's been a previous discussion and my view hasn't changed.

Personally, I still prefer the very very North East tip of North Africa, right next to the Middle East. Mostly as it gives you the most land coverage you can possibly get by covering most of Europe, NA, some of South Africa, the MiddleEast, bits of Russia and very minimal sea coverage.

[TheUbiquitous]

Do weird, unchallenged alien activities in the Yukon or Nebraska hurt your rep exactly as much as they would in New York City or Los Angeles?

[thothkins]

I'm gravitating towards Alexandria at the minute.. Not only for coverage, but also that I got this odd looking library ticket in the post the other day...