[SPOILERS] Scooticator and Pindooter give a sporting try

[NobleHelium]

mackoti could also be afraid of you scouting him out with the OB.

And then let's go up north, where we have some culture issues that need shoring up:

Need to get some libraries in those border cities, unless we want to permanently run artists.

Clearly it's time for a Pig War.

[scooter]

This sums up our current position nicely:

scooter: mack and ichabod launched golden ages
plako declared on dhal
pindicator: so we're now #3 in gnp?
scooter: #2
pretty good with 3 teams in golden ages
AND we're running break even
holy crap we might be a runaway. haha
pindicator: LOL - with mack, ichabod, and dtay all in golden ages, we're #2
yeah, that's why i don't think we want to expand right now
scooter: yeah agreed
other than, you know, pac south

Yeesh.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Darius, mostly post-expansion phase. Looking good.

[pindicator]

New turns, new tech:

• WilliamLP gains Calendar
  
• OldHarry & Fintourist gain Paper
  
• Ichabod gains Code of Laws
  
• plako gains Engineering
  
• Commodore gains Optics
  
• Lewwyn gains Guilds

Not a fan of the last two...

[NobleHelium]

Death to Commodore.

[pindicator]

Turn 154

I labeled things that are going to go south:



And another slow turn. Which is fine by me, I could use all the slow turns I can get.

Some demo changes make me think I've sussed out a few more things:

1. dtay revolted to Free Religion and now we're #3 in GNP. Coincidence? Probably not
2. That means mackoti is at 1200+ GNP. If true, there's a runaway in the making.
3. We're #1 in crop yield now, so at least we have that

[pindicator]

Now this is something I do not like the look of:



I went back into the game because I saw in civstats what looked like Black Sword taking a city off of suttree. I was hoping to jump in and confirm they were at war - that would certainly be a nice buffer to our west! But instead it looks like suttree offered to give the city to Black Sword. I'll leave it to lurkers to "investigate", if that is even needed, but I hope suttree got something good out of it.

It also makes me question just how amazing Black Sword's recovery is and how he got all those islands that looked rightfully like they should be suttree's. I'll just say it: smells of collusion.

[Zed-F]

I doubt there's any collusion going on here.

[Mardoc]

TBS reported that, it looks fine to me. Don't want to share details, but I don't see anything obviously against self-interest.

[pindicator]

In that case I hope suttree got fair value for it