RBP7 [SPOILERS] - The Chronicles of Nyania

[Lord Parkin]

Currency is in! Metal Casting next. We should finish that in 3-4 turns... hopefully 3 with a Wealth build or two. Then probably onto Code of Laws, which should also be a 3-4 turn job.

Here you can see the Wine city spot we'll be settling in 2 turns, and also the barbarian north which we're slowly pushing back with our culture.



Again, we've managed to take the #1 spot in GNP despite being at 0% research. Nice!

[nabaxo]

I bothers me how we are third in land-area considering...

[Lord Parkin]

We're only 6 tiles behind the leader. Can probably guess who #1 and #2 are likely to be based on the scoreboard. But yeah, it's a little concerning. Hopefully our next few cities will go somewhat towards reclaiming the #1 land area title for us... though if Sunrise is now taking cities from his neighbours, who knows.

[Lord Parkin]

Will be founding our second island city on the spot marked next turn. The immediate area is not enticing at all, but by founding this spot rather than the Crab/Copper one we should actually save 20+ commerce due to all the Currency trade routes in our cities going from 1->2 commerce earlier.

Anyway, the long-term prospects aren't bad - we can have a Stele built in 5 turns using a forest chop, and then it's only 8 turns until we can work the Fish. Definitely worth founding just to gain the trade route income, anyway. Having an island within reach of your start really does help in an Always War game where you can never get any trade routes with other civs.



Demographics this turn. We're sticking out like a sore thumb in GNP at the moment, partly thanks to Wealth builds, and that lead is only going to improve next turn with 2 new cities and 1->2 commerce trade routes. Oh well, I'm sure other nations will be generating similar numbers soon enough.

[Lord Parkin]

@ #1 GNP civ.

I look forward to the civ with 300+ GNP telling us how they're too far behind and have no chance to win and should pretty much be counted out of it

I'm not saying anything, at least not in public.

And little does he know that we managed to accomplish that despite having the #1 army dragging down our economy too. But that's what Wealth builds + triple Academies do for you.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

You have 3 academies what?

[Lord Parkin]

Yeah, since the Great Library, Parthenon and National Epic we've been churning out Great Scientists like there's no tomorrow. Doesn't take long to make 600 GPP's (for 3 Scientists) when you're generating 37 GPP's per turn.

Our fourth Great Person is due in <10 turns too, so there's a 90+% chance we'll have Academy #4 shortly.

[Rowain]

[DMOC]

How many academies do you plan to build?

[Lord Parkin]

New cities!

Hide Yo Kids on the island...



Looks horrible right now, but it nets us 14 commerce per turn from trade routes and will soon be working the Fish and cottages. Well worth founding as it increased our research rate to do so.

Champagne at the Wine...



Will grow slowly initially because Pwnage needs the Cow at the moment and Dramatic Beaver needs the Corn. However, a well timed forest chop means the borders will be expanding to the Deer in 9 turns, so things will soon be better there.

Demographics...



Will be stopping Wealth builds next turn to switch to Forges, so our GNP will drop quite a bit. Still won't be bad though.