For example, placing your two settlements adjacent to two 8s will give you a game that lends itself to feast or famine.
Resource production stability is one way for you to maintain a good even pace to inch your way to victory. Because of that, it’s advisable that when you do your initial placement, try to get a variety of starting numbers. For example, placing your two settlements adjacent to two 8s will give you a game that lends itself to feast or famine. Feast, if people roll 8s a lot, but famine, if they roll the equally-common 6s instead. So make sure you’re covering a good spread of the dice roll results and that’ll make things go much much easier for you.