EDIT: Just want to emphasize again AFTER YURIS HAS PLAYED
Kind lurkers, please make these moves (as best as I can remember) after Yuris has played:
Set research to Monotheism and keep slider at 0%
Micro capital to remove a scientist, grab the silver tile for the capital. Robinson should move to an improved tile.
Drop the worker on the SW galley off on the island by the jungle, move galley back to ott to pick up settler. move ott settler to pig hill to then move onto galley next turn. ott should take back the pigs currently given to morgan.
Morgan builds courthouse (if not already)
Some worker micro, both the western spices and the eastern silk can be completed this turn. There is an extra worker nearby both to do so. If there is an extra one in the west after spice hooked, move into a forest by conner to chop if the Great Lighthouse isn't built. Conner's new citizen can work the spice.
Settler by robinson goes onto the northern c where the fortified archer is. Worker there is going to begin a chop for the new city's terrace.
If anything is produced, change next build to wealth, except robinson, which needs to build military.
Anything else that makes sense, you can gchat me at tvswetbandit if anything serious happens.
Set research to Monotheism and keep slider at 0% (DONE)
Micro capital to remove a scientist, grab the silver tile for the capital. Robinson should move to an improved tile. (DONE) I Did some things to stop robinson's growth into unhappiness, then had to undo them once I played further and hooked up two calendar resources. :P Robinson grows to size 8 this turn.
Drop the worker on the SW galley off on the island by the jungle, move galley back to ott to pick up settler. move ott settler to pig hill to then move onto galley next turn. ott should take back the pigs currently given to morgan. (DONE) - Wasn't sure about plans for worker, see image below.
Morgan builds courthouse (if not already) - It's already building one, slowly. (DONE)
Some worker micro, both the western spices and the eastern silk can be completed this turn. There is an extra worker nearby both to do so. If there is an extra one in the west after spice hooked, move into a forest by conner to chop if the Great Lighthouse isn't built. Conner's new citizen can work the spice. (DONE) - There wasn't a spare worker in the west after finishing the spice. I fired the scientist in Mathewson since it didn't seem like you were trying to stock up GSci points, seemed more like you were slowing growth until the happiness kicked in. Put the citizen onto a coast tile instead to speed up growth to the happy cap. Seems like if you want to run scientists you can do it at the cap and run a pair anyway.
Settler by robinson goes onto the northern c where the fortified archer is. Worker there is going to begin a chop for the new city's terrace. (DONE)
If anything is produced, change next build to wealth, except robinson, which needs to build military. - (DONE, but...?) Robinson is currently building wealth. I wasn't sure if this meant to keep building wealth or to swap to military. If to military, which unit? Seeing as you have one spear in your entire empire and a good cash income already, I swapped to a spear to put in your new front city. Both Yuri and Borsche have axes visible in their nearby cities so an axe would be good too, but you have six of those around the empire. A chariot would also be good, since you only have one...OK, make that a chariot instead of an axe, to counter their visible axes. But you still probably need another spear from somewhere to put up there in case they have chariots or worse around. At least the rough terrain will prevent you from being hit by mounted units from the fog, so a chariot seems more useful to counter the visible axes based on what I see from your vantage (I don't know the future, haven't seen or don't remember posts from your rivals, but I always build too many units anyway). Chariot due in 2T from Robinson now.
Didn't know what to do with your scout, maybe it would make sense to send him to an island? There's no fog busting work for him up here, or anything to do really other than be the last man to die in a defensive stand if that becomes necessary. Sent him south onto the "watermill" tile, expecting he'll go SE next toward Mize and onto a galley for useful service. If that's wrong he's only one turn from where he started.
Doubled your guard on the silk tile since Borche's warrior could have theoretically taken a pot shot at your chariot to kill 3 workers. I don't know your diplomatic situation with your neighbors so I'll just assume they're all out to get you and be super paranoid about covering everything.
Wasn't sure of the plan for the workers around Davis, cottage something or farm the rice. But farming the rice would give the new city a good tile to work when settled so I went with that. Sorry if this is rehashing everything that was obvious but jumping in cold is like trying to solve a puzzle when you're not sure if you're putting the pieces in the right place (and whoever's puzzle it is, they may be cross if you solve it incorrectly ).
West island axe, moved him 1 west, but that may be the limit of his advance for now (if I'm playing any more turns, that is), because of the possibility of barbs spawning between him and the city. Your one Quechua in the area may have trouble holding the city if an axe spawns over there.
Davis could whip the work boat this turn, but you didn't say anything about it...seems like if you go for the worker on the nearby jungle tile to chop the tile the new city will go on, those 13 hammers will mostly finish the work boat without having to lose the population. Then again, you still need a lighthouse here so maybe you'd rather have the hammers instead of the population. If it was my civ I'd whip it here, but this might be outside my mandate to improvise. And with all the food the city will be close to growing again soon, so you'll have plenty of time to whip it.
Non-emergency question in Connor, I ended up working the crappy grassland forest instead of the lake since you're building a wonder and I didn't bother to do math to see if the hammer mattered. You got good effort, not maximum effort.
North map, where the settler is on the way for a new city. Need a new Giant....
South map, with exploring work boat. I hope you like fish. I don't know how big this island is but the idea was to send the scout to sit around over here to fog bust.
Demographics and power, since those are the ones I always capture:
If you have any changes you'd like made let me know in the next hour or so before I go to bed.
Also, Bonds is a cheater.
Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon
I usually spend an hour a turn on mp games anyway, doesn't seem to matter what size the empire is after the early game. Probably because that's about how much time I have to play at night. I don't mind, I wasn't doing anything else last night. If you were losing badly you probably would have got an effort commensurate with that.
Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon
Xenu, thanks for everything, you're a pretty swell guy!
(September 10th, 2015, 21:49)spacetyrantxenu Wrote: Also, Bonds is a cheater.
Or not. Yes, he probably took some things, but I don't think there is definite causation from the use of PEDs that translates to success as a baseball player. Not the same as track, cycling, or other similar sports.
But who cares, its trip report time! Don't you love looking at vacation pictures?
My old home. Used to work here even. Forgot how expensive this damn place is. (EDIT: I have no idea why this picture is flipped, it's the correct side up on my dropbox.)
I.e. $9 "Sheboygan" bratwurst.
So now that boring shit is over, let's look at fun things like civ. I played all of my turns this weekend on my laptop (and possibly not in the clearest mental state) and I notice that the pictures I thought I took didn't really take. I fired the golden age this turn and revolted into Obvious Civics (Caste, OR). In any case, these two did appear and are quite fun:
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This is obviously very good right now, but who knows how this game is going to turn out? It seems that someone is on 2-3 cities and maybe another player has 1.5-2x civ land.
Research is on Monarchy and then Feudalism or CS. Leaning Feudalism for the defensive certainty PRO longbows will provide. I have one barracks so Vassalage and LBs for CG2 of G1 (or G2!) will be great. Getting dogpiled by my neighbors in the next 15 turns is the only way I can get totally boned in this game, it seems. My capital has awesome commerce though, which makes me pine for Bureau, but I don't think it's as useful for this situation.
I got a fortunate spread of Buddhism to conner (the Great Lighthouse city) the turn before the GA which means delicious OR bonus hammers coinciding with a chop. GL is done in 2 turns. That would be a phenomenal achievement what with 9 coastals and many more to come.
Finally, this might be the most hilarious screenshot in RB Pitboss history:
(September 14th, 2015, 03:21)GermanJoey Wrote: If Hindu is Maya, then it don't count unless its all 7/7!
This is true, you have an obvious religious feud to settle. Waaaaaaaar!
On Bonds...he was already a great player before he started juicing. He took the Pirates to the playoffs! He didn't hit for the same power before he bulked like Hulk, but no one did quite that. Point being he already had all the baseball skills, juicing didn't give him that. But cheating did make him quicker at the plate and hit able to the ball harder, --> ungodly power numbers. The shame of it is that he was already so good, he really didn't need to cheat. Then again, everyone else was many others were cheating in that era, so they all suck, not just him.
TL;DR - juicing didn't make Bonds a great player, it amplified his already great abilities, and he sucks for it.
Played: Pitboss 18 - Kublai Khan of Germany Somalia | Pitboss 11 - De Gaulle of Byzantium | Pitboss 8 - Churchill of Portugal | PB7 - Mao of Native America | PBEM29 Greens - Mao of Babylon
Played the turn ahead of both Yuri and Borsche. There hasn't seemingly been a turn split issue for many turns now and it doesn't appear that there is one now. I don't want to appear that I'm camping the timer to play last forever. I'm sure someone will let me know if this is a problem.
I suppose I should have added that all the world's religion is confined to our continent. Side goal is to bring religion, doesn't matter what kind as long as its Buddhism, to the heathens across the water.
News of the turn is that we met one of those heathens! Grimace sailed a galley due west of the new city on the island. A bit awkward as I moved the quechua away from the city, so Grimace could theoretically get a free raze in on the city if he wanted to and had a military unit on that galley. It looks like Grimace came from the northwest as I can also now see a trace of the connecting ivory/stone island.
The first 100 turns couldn't have gone much better for the Casual Incans.
In the middle of a golden age, these demos speak to our very good position. I have the best economically developed empire that can enable me to choose conquest or continue buildering/teching to even more advances. This advantage I think will be best used to acquire more land on the continent to secure a land advantage over other players. The islands are great and lush, but capturing adjacent opponents' land protects our own cities and eliminates our closest competition. We are making the world safe and hence, its not our fault that we started this war.
Graphs.
Mainly presented to compare with Borsche, who continues to dump on all EP on me. He's looking more and more like the first target. My border with Yuris is much more defensible, plus I think it is less likely that Yuris would declare on me were I to attack Borsche. I think that Borsche would very likely declare on me if I attacked Yuris. Borsche also has ivory hooked, no duh what with his galley moving around.
Marble island. Borsche's galley found our settled island and he could wipe a city if he had a unit, I guess.
The capital is wonderful. Wish I could sneak an academy here, but don't think the timing nor the few GPPs will work out for that.
Future HG city. The mids are still available and roughly the same hammer cost. I thought the Great Lighthouse was a stretch (completed next turn!) and the mids would be even greedier to attempt. This city does have 5 forests with stone and OR...
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Yes, he probably took some things, but I don't think there is definite causation from the use of PEDs that translates to success as a baseball player. Not the same as track, cycling, or other similar sports. 
