[Yossar]

When do you folks head for land?

Before the patch it was good to go to land early. Land independents were in general much easier to deal with than tritons. Now with paralysis nerfed, I'm not so sure. There's rarely a whole lot of competition for ocean provinces (if Atlantis and to a lesser degree Ermor aren't in the game) but if you wait long enough people will start taking them.

Originally posted by tinkthank:
I have also noticed that some of the higher level sites arent even particularly great (give 1 gem).

The level 4 sites are all really good. There are some mediocre level 3 sites, but most of the really good sites are at least level 2.