[Spoiler] Ein Bier bitte

[Elkad]

I spent 3 weeks in Germany in 1988ish.

Grand total of what I learned is please, thank you, how to order a beer, and a few profanities.

Now I'm in a German game, playing Frederick of Germany.

Password

piano
seems appropriate.  88 keys, pb88

Unit#s

00  83  73  47  67  43  77  50  75  99
86  59  40  57  30  51  76  48  93  79
87  72  06  96  90  35  23  02  62  42 
16  10  95  91  27  26  70  55  66  56
84  19  37  98  45  54  01  32  68  09
33  63  88  18  24  49  74  65  22  11
58  17  31  14  38  41  80  71  20  36
52  21  94  13  82  28  60  04  97  25
46  07  12  29  53  69  39  64  81  05
15  44  61   8  92  89  85  03  34  78

[Elkad]

Well they are talking about modifying starts.

I've got a single rice (at least it's wet) in my BFC.  +5f
And the silver is dry, so working that will put me at only +3.
Hardly ideal, but not terrible.  I can maintain a whip cycle anyway.
 
I moved 1n to preserve the river grass tile and get the rice in the first ring.
Water is a lake, and looks like only 5 tiles.

   

Tech path will be Agri, BW, Wheel, Pottery.
Of course if there is no Copper, I'll probably have to grab archery.

[Elkad]

Didn't get a shot, but my new version has no rice.
Grassland Pigs and a Lake Fish instead.

Ultimately more food, but the delay while I research fishing and then build a workboat hurts.
Starting with Agriculture is now near useless.

[Papa Bear]

Enjoy the game! 

I played in the predecessor (PB73) but won't have time to do so this time around. But of course I will follow developments all around the world by reading as many stories as I can. That's currently 37 over at civforum.de plus the ones over here.

[Elkad]

Is the pb73 map available somewhere?

[Papa Bear]

Is the pb73 map available somewhere?

Yes.

Should be downloadable via this post:

https://www.civforum.de/showthread.php?9...-Weltkarte

[Maugitar]

Any news for a reader?

[Elkad]

T10.

Not a lot to report.

Here is a screenshot anyway.




That is a LOT of land with only 3 food resources (and 2 cows..)

So far the logical spot for city 2 is 1 north of Stone.

Tech path is Fishing (done, but I'm finishing the worker before I start the boat), Bronze Working (in progress), Agriculture, Animal Husbandry.

I may divert for Masonry and try to build the Great Wall after that. There are a lot of animals around, I don't want Deity barbarian hordes to deal with. Of course with 52 players, someone may finish it before I even research Masonry. If it's a neighbor, I'll build 5 axes and go take it instead.

Build order. Worker. Workboat. Warriors to grow and build a sentry net. Chops into my first settler.

[Elkad]

Fimi is 9.5 tiles away.
He built at least one warrior, it's been lurking around my border for a while (and not moving every turn)




In 6t I find out if I have copper.  

[Elkad]

T20 map.




I'm already dead last in pop and food, and it's not getting better anytime soon.

Deer between Fimi and I. If I settle SE of it, I'll get a river trade route to my cap and it can share 2 river cottages with my capital.
Which might move that up to city 2, delaying stone for 3. Still depends where the copper is.