Hashoosh gets into bed and Dhalphir sometimes watches from the closet (SPOILERS)

[Dhalphir]

Only having one food bonus in the capital isn't ideal. We won't be able to conveniently split one off to share with a second city, and if we want to share the river floodplains with a second city we better hope there's a food bonus to the southeast.

[Hashoosh]

Only having one food bonus in the capital isn't ideal. We won't be able to conveniently split one off to share with a second city, and if we want to share the river floodplains with a second city we better hope there's a food bonus to the southeast.

I have the sinking feeling we're going to have a very tough choice for second city placement based on our good our cap is.

[Dhalphir]

I get the feeling this map is going to be quite resource-less. I mean, look at what we've revealed so far (have you scouted this turn yet? Post a picture when you do).

There's only five visible resources in all the tiles we've revealed - two of them are dry rice which are awful tiles, one of them is a clam and the other two are both in our capital.

[Dhalphir]

just read above that you did scout. Don't forget to end turn when you're done moving. You can still change tile arrangements after ending turn.

[Dhalphir]

Do you agree with micro plan for up to t20?

[Hashoosh]

I'm not completely sold, classes are cancelled tomorrow (today?) so I'll do some intense stuff up to t50.

Looking at the current surroundings, we should emphasize second or maybe third workers over a second or third settler, just because I'm not seeing sites jumping out.

[Dhalphir]

I am in agreement on the lack of sites jumping out. I haven't seen a picture from this turn or logged in, but I get the impression the land on this map does not favour rapid horizontal expansion.

[Dhalphir]

How did you go with some of your t50 sims?

And any pics from the current turn of scouting?

[Hashoosh]

So dropbox has really fucked with my screenshots, I'm not sure what's going on there. It always take a picture of the little loading box (like the one I uploaded earlier) even when I'm taking screencaps of the game. Very odd.

Anyways, here's the best t50 sim I came up with.

2 settlers
3 workers
1 warrior + 1 with a turn invested (just in case)
1 granary on the way

Size 3 cap
cottaged all fp
3 forest chops
mines on two rgh and ph, cottage on g 1W of cap
camp on furs
roads in a bunch of places

The reason I have so many useless (!) improvements up in the cap is because we haven't decided on 2nd/3rd city spots. I hope there are some forests for chopping because our low chop potential at the cap has been hurting versatility. I have the 3 workers ready to move on t50 into the forest we can see 1S of ph to triple chop it and finish the granary on t51. From there we can start aggressively whipping the cap into workers/settlers with warrior or axe (if we get lucky) growth turns.

Sound good?

I was thinking we farm 2 fp for now, actually, for the growth potential of 2 4/0/1 tiles and a 6/0/1 tile, or just one farmed fp and a camped furs for 4/0/1 2/1/5 6/0/1 tiles

Quick edit: teched mining to bw, then pottery, then hunting, then ah, then fishing and now on mysticism. The fishing and mysticism are temporary while we figure out our strategic position, but both are useful techs (trade routes and border pops).

I was thinking writing and then a push to mathematics and maybe a construction grab to go bash someone's head in. Maybe try to grab code of laws for Confucianism?

[TheHumanHydra]

Confused - Dropbox doesn't take screenshots; your computer takes screenshots. You just put your screenshots in Dropbox after your computer has already made them. What do they look like when they're just on your desktop, or wherever?