[PB28 SPOILERS ] Fenn Presents: A Comedy of Errors

[Cheater Hater]

When did you make contact with Jowy? This turn?

Make sure to focus your EP on only one person until you get graphs--I'd choose Jowy since it appears he's closer, but Mardoc would get you some graphs sooner.

I noticed you started Stonehenge; when will it complete with the current plan?

[Commodore]

Just from the last screenshot...t36. Natch.

[Fenn]

I think I had contact with Jowy at the beginning of this turn, therefore he made contact with me when he played before me. He may have played after me last turn now that I think about it

Stonehenge should complete on T38; I'm chopping three forests do do it and Plague is going to grow onto a forest hill at Size 4. I think that's pretty good for my start while still getting a Settler out early-ish, but I'm just waiting for Mardoc to snap it up any turn now.

[Fenn]

Played a double turn today, so have two sets of screens:


Cholera was founded on Turn 33 and is growing on the river Wheat. It's a good thing I did it this turn too, or that Bear would've gotten me. The other Bear attacks our Warrior, but fortunately doesn't kill him. After reaching Size 2, Cholera will probably build Workers and a Work Boat to net the clams once I have Fishing.

Now to Turn 34:


Here's Plague's progress on Stonehenge. My micro mistake way back when might actually speed up the completion time; it's growing to Size 4 sooner than I had anticipated. I'm chopping the forest 2S and building a Mine 1S of the capital, so once Stonehenge completes it can either work four improved tiles or whip more Settlers. What I do will depend on whether I get Stonehenge or if somebody completes it before me.

Current tech path is Wheel -> Pottery -> Fishing; past that I'll have to consider once I get there. Probably won't be picking up Archery right away though, Axes and Spears should make competent enough defenders for now.



Here's Jowy's second city, which he founded three turns ago. This Warrior got attacked by a Bear too, so for now he's healing on a forest hill and snooping on Rivia, but will move on once he's healed. I hope Jowy doesn't mind...

Finally, I got graphs with Mardoc this turn. Here's the most pertinent stats:





That Crop Yield number is definitely concerning...otherwise we're fairly similar, and I have a decent (not pictured) lead in MFG. Once the Stonehenge situation resolves I'll be looking to spew out cities.

[Fenn]

Whosit was (according to him) holding up Turn 32 until everyone else had played on purpose. I can't imagine why he'd want to do that unless he's somehow trying to make war this early on. Maybe he's in a settling race somewhere?

[Cheater Hater]

Whosit was (according to him) holding up Turn 32 until everyone else had played on purpose. I can't imagine why he'd want to do that unless he's somehow trying to make war this early on. Maybe he's in a settling race somewhere?

Probably a settling race--have you been paying attention to civstats to see when people have settled their cities (read: score increase while someone is logged in)? I know it's a casual game, but not only is this easy to determine, we aren't using this for neighbors, just pace considerations.

As for graphs, is there a similar increase for us in the GNP graph (accounting for the silver)? That might give us a hint to whether there's a precious metal at each start (though Mardoc may have just improved a third food instead of it).

[Fenn]

Whosit founded his second city on Turn 32, and Jowy founded his on Turn 31. So that would fit with Whosit waiting to see what some unknown-to-us competitor did before founding his second city. I don't remember when Mardoc founded his, but it was a turn or two before that. I'm probably among the last to two cities though.

Good idea about checking Mardoc's GNP graph, it doesn't seem like he has a precious metal like we do:


The dip in our graph comes from founding Cholera and running a lower break-even slider.

Stonehenge is almost done:


It should be ready on Turn 38.

Thanks for the advice wrt checking when Whosit founded and analyzing the GNP graph to check for luxury hookup, I probably wouldn't have thought of those things by myself.

[Cheater Hater]

Whosit founded his second city on Turn 32, and Jowy founded his on Turn 31. So that would fit with Whosit waiting to see what some unknown-to-us competitor did before founding his second city. I don't remember when Mardoc founded his, but it was a turn or two before that. I'm probably among the last to two cities though.

Good idea about checking Mardoc's GNP graph, it doesn't seem like he has a precious metal like we do:


The dip in our graph comes from founding Cholera and running a lower break-even slider.

Stonehenge is almost done:


It should be ready on Turn 38.

Thanks for the advice wrt checking when Whosit founded and analyzing the GNP graph to check for luxury hookup, I probably wouldn't have thought of those things by myself.

Yeah, I can do a bit of C&D-type checking, though this is casual game so I don't want to go overboard--check the early part of my PBEM58 thread for an example of obviously going overboard

[Fenn]

This turn (36) was pretty quiet, so no pictures. The last forest chop finished and Stonehenge is due on Turn 38. I could do a 1-pop whip on Turn 37 to overflow hammers into a Worker (for the Exp bonus), a Warrior (so the capital isn't undefended) or a Settler. I saw my first barb Warrior to the northwest of Plague, so I need to hurry up and connect that Copper - the worker that finished the chop will head over to Cholera and do that.

Mardoc whipped this turn - his score decreased during his turn. Probably whipping out a Settler or something, but I can't help but worry he's finished Stonehenge a turn ahead of me. Maybe I could have sped up Stonehenge by overflowing Warrior whips into it, but it's too late for that now, and it have been gambling even more on finishing it first.

[Fenn]

Turn 37
Our Mine finished, and we'll have at least a coinflip's chance of getting Stonehenge next turn:



But look at that tooltip on the bottom right. I forgot to revolt to Slavery.



No wonder Plague was growing to Size 4 a turn early.