PBEM9 - Ruff Spoiler Thread

[Ruff_Hi]

So, are you still playing the game as a consummate liar, or did you decide to abandon the idea?

oops - did I say I was playing this game that way. Guess I forgot. The game at the moment is very interesting ...

[Ruff_Hi]

email from Macedon ... pretty funny really, particularly the part about Sylon style emails. I guess that means long, in-character, general discussions. I'll have to think about the NAP.

Hi Ruff,
sorry for the delay.
I will be lying if i say everything is good, here the tension is high because Pegasus planted a city 3 tile away and he is doing some military build up, Kodii is showing more and more units.
Only Sylon is nice as usual, but that is not making me less anxious .
Congrats on your island city, my work boat is just admiring the hill and the goodies near that beautiful place.
I want to talk you about a NAP , lets say until turn 130? What you think about that. And please don't send me response Sylon stile (High level player don''t recommend to do that).
cheers,
Macedon

[Ruff_Hi]

Some pics from the latest turn ...

Macki is right about Kodii and his units ...


And some interesting map conditions ...

[Krill]

Ruff, can you explain why you are lagging so much in power and score?

[Ruff_Hi]

Ruff, can you explain why you are lagging so much in power and score?

power is easy. I don't have any units - only warriors and not even enough of them to cover all of my cities.

Score - my cities are small and coastal so I think I am missing out on tiles and population. I am 2 turns from Monarchy and then currency / calendar is next - after that, CoL and growth. That should correct my score to something closer to the middle of the pack.

[Krill]

How long until you get 2 settlers to banana island then?

[Ruff_Hi]

How long until you get 2 settlers to banana island then?

Sylon is selling me a settler (about 2 turns I think) but I don't have another in production. BI is pretty expensive from a maintenance point of view, but worth it. I was thinking of putting a city on the East of BI - that would pretty much lock it down for me ... I'm just not sure where to put it. It could go where my spawn busting warrior currently is, or on the wine. Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?

[Ruff_Hi]

reply from Kodii (25th) and my reply to him (today) ...

Hi Ruff,

I guess that was a bad on both ends, but I guess that goes to show that we're both happy with the current state of things. I would be pleased to extend our NAP to at least T115. What are your thoughts in regards to that?

I am also in contact with Sylon. I feel that he has done a good job of allotting time towards diplomacy. I have had very little contact with mackoti, and minimal contact with Pegasus, except when we had our disagreement. I regret that I have not been able to spend more time with diplomacy, so my apologies for that.

I am currently mapping out the islands and hope to expand there in the near future. I do not have much room on the mainland. How about you?

- Kodii

Kodii,

I will accept your NAP extension to T115 with pleasure. Power Spike from you and increased chatter from the others - good luck with your plans. I see that you have found some very rare tiles ... coastal tiles next to no land!

Ruff

[Krill]

You can't really lock it down with only 2 cities, I think you'll need three, C1 and Wines. Otherwise someone is liable to wander along and cram down a city anywhere and you'll be screwed.

So, you need 2 galleys, 2 fast worker, 2 settlers and, well, 2 archers and 2 spears to hold that island IMO.

[Ruff_Hi]

ok - wines it is. And if someone puts down a city on 'C?' before I can get a settler there, then I will hate them and see if I can culture crush them .