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I fully agree that it is more important to scout towards active trade partners to discover them and rid yourself of the trader's fee, while gaining a supplier for your non-boosted goods. No argument there really.While the "star" will pick up your boosts, it neglects your ideal trading partners, and you NEED somewhere cheap to exchange all of those boosted goods. I'd even argue that chasing active radio button traders who have your missing boosts is the "best" strategy, and that your own boosts will fall into place by happenstance.
HOWEVER, if you happen to come across a situation like myself, where there are perhaps one or two active players in your neighbourhood and they happen to be in ring 10+, then I would not recommend this. In this case it's "best" to gain relics as quickly as possible (which is where the 'star-like' formation is most efficient), until inactive players are replaced or other trade partners start appearing. THEN I would revert back to "chasing" the potential trade partners as you mentioned.
Effectively the 'best' strategy is quite situational and thus a variable one according to one's needs. For example, scouting ring by ring might be 'best' in one's opinion once a player has unlocked AWs as they'll need the various relics and possibly more expansions for their city.
The star-like formation would be what I'd call a default or 'fall-back' strategy as it allows you to gain what you need by default (more boosted relics quickly), at a fairly good cost/distance ratio and you spread out across the world map rapidly in all directions. The later allows you to more easily adjust your scouting direction if a potential undiscovered trade partner appears. The provinces that you leave uncompleted/skip would then allow you to relatively quickly gain expansions or relics/shards for AWs when you happen to need them. Just my opinion though.
On the spiral, it's more elegant to create a new ring by overrunning the 1 o'clock corner, but that's not what actually happens. Each ring starts at 12 o'clock, and when the ring closes at 11:59, there's a jog and a new ring is started, again, at 12 o'clock. You can verify that pattern with a close look at us3: genevadugger, or by looking at the top edge on any Elvenar world map, at exactly 12 o'clock where you'll find the start of the most recent ring.
I looked into this on Winyandor and the entirety of the world map's edges are straight. Could it be that the ring was completed fully and then the system started filling in the holes for the deleted inactive players within the current map before expanding further outwards? Will change the spiral if you feel I should.
EDIT: This what you mean with the spiral?
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