[PB84] Bing's thread

[BING_XI_LAO]

As for plan to get to currency.... when I had 44 net income recently I 3 pop whipped a bunch of libraries.... temporarily reducing income to 27.... now back up to 50.

419 gold banked, so Currency is 9 turns away



What do these 0s mean? I thought they represented the bonus to research from other players having researched them? But others HAVE researched some of these yet I see no number on any of these. Do I need alphabet to enable to bonus or something?

[BING_XI_LAO]

Also, my empire is strangled at 6 happiness, I desperately need markets for their +3 happiness

And my main problem this game, as usual, has been lagging development of cottages

[El Grillo]

There seems to be a bug with the mod's Known Tech Bonus counter, but I can't reproduce it right now.

[BING_XI_LAO]

Given that markets are 150 hammer cost iirc, I might do 2pop whips of spear/axe to overflow into the markets

30 hammers from whip overflow, then 30 hammers the hard way, then 3pop whip to finish

[BING_XI_LAO]

Currency was on turn 107, took net income from 50 to 77. Naturally i immediately celebrated by whipping and founding new cities but this has only taken net income down to 71 a few turns later.
island fur will be turn 111 and dyes turn 114, then iron working to get a couple other luxuries not long after that, meaning no longer capped at 6 happiness everywhere, which was awful.

[BING_XI_LAO]

My scouts inform me that the others placed their fur island cities well before I did. Definitely a mistake there.

[BING_XI_LAO]

Actually Tarkeel's fur town is only as developed as mine - very recent. Now I'm no longer happiness capped, I have to forbear from whipping.... I have a lot of core towns that are only 5 pop

[BING_XI_LAO]

Superdeath only having 12 cities despite the Ziggurat UB is an oddity. Maybe he's trying to reach Knights as quickly as possible. 

[BING_XI_LAO]

On further consideration, SD having 12 cities isn't that strange. I have 15, but:
 - One is pretty much worthless
 - One was built to grab dye/silk in the jungle
 - One was built to grow on generic grass tiles using a sheep tile stolen from a city that could now use the food to grow quicker
 
So SD just chose to have fewer, more effective cities. I do have two empty city spots that are good (one has fish, the other is in this screenshot), but it may take a very long time before this actually disadvantages SD. 
You can see how the area around my cap is more compact and will have an extra city. 

So maybe it wasn't a sinister plot from the very beginning... but he's probably gunning for Cuirs.



Meanwhile MJMD's Mausoleum-boosted GA just started. And I only have 9 workers, so have to make another. bunch of lumbermills and farms to make