[SPOILER] Shaka of Inca - gingereagle1969 & Sandover

[gingereagle1969]

turn 102

Still at peace with Whosit, amazingly. Have offered open borders, I doubt he'll accept

Also offered open borders to Tredje, who will accept.

Notice a bright spot on the map away from our culture and discovered 2Pac01 was standing in Nakor/Gaspar's city of Heitinga, have sent the following apology:

Sanibona Nakor & Gaspar,

I must apologise for 2Pac01's insistence on seeking shelter in your city, Heitinga. I have instructed him to return home, by the quickest route, to AnimalCity.

This trek will take him 11 turns, I will not look at his progress until he returns and asks for further orders.

Once again, I apologise for stupidly leaving him to his own devices and hope his presence did not cause you much alarm.

Sobanana,

GingerEagle

Let's hope they're not too upset.

OK, Horse-Back riding is now complete & I clicked on Replaceable Parts. At 0% tech it calculated the following path:

Machinery [21 turns] -> Alphabet [11] -> Theology [17] -> Guilds [39] -> Paper [24] -> Banking [31] -> Printing Press [63] -> Replaceable Parts [78]

Considering it's basing the timings on the current overflow, that's going to take a very long time, the game will be over by then ... so, I upped the tech to 30% [which was only -2 G/turn] and got these figures:

Machinery [5 turns] -> Alphabet [3] -> Theology [5] -> Guilds [9] -> Paper [6] -> Banking [7] -> Printing Press [15] -> Replaceable Parts [17]

This was calculated manually, still takes a total of 67 turns until we can build Lumbermills, but that time could come down once we get the tech discounts as I'm sure a lot of the others will have completed these by now. BTW, I doubt that will be the actual tech order determined by the game, but we'll see.

I may change the plan to include Optics [6 turns @ 30%] after Machinery, depends on how quickly UltimoMomento grows and whether it needs the Whale tile improved soon.

Ooh, at end of turn the G/turn went from -2 to +2 ... probably as a Courthouse completed in BackInBlack [ironically ]

Other news, the first of 7 Fast Workers from Kyan appeared near SheWolf [renamed to Scooby01] My plan is for them to swarm around SheWolf & WakaWakaShaka only.

[gingereagle1969]

where the heck is the turn?

this in from Nakor:

Goeiedag GingeEagle,

Good to see that he is returning home. If we think we is seeing things not ment for his eyes, we'll cover them.

How is the game going so far? Though map?

Kind regards,
Nakor

hmm .. I'll consider a response

[gingereagle1969]

turn 103

So, Whosit did not accept Open Borders ... surprise ... oh well, his Axeman will have to go the long way round, or head back down south ... at least he can't see the 2 new Scoobies from Kyan [3 down, 4 to go]. Great Scientist is now heading to Dover.

Missionary built in WakaWakaShake this turn is heading to EyesLikeYours [Settler building - as road already in place, will settle DreamsForPlans site north of SheWolf and link up culture to UltimoMomento]. Another Missionary, built at end of turn in BackInBlack, will head to AnimalCity to boost production there.

Settler & Wyclef escort nearly at GoodStuff site, we'll have a culture fight over the Furs as Tredje's borders have popped, but hopefully it won't take too long to win.

Road nearly complete to both UltimoMomento and GoodStuff.

G/turn seemed to vanish this turn for some reason, but the Courthouse that built in HipsDontLie rectified that to +6G/turn!! 2 turns away from Courthouses in SheWolf & EyesLikeYours, so this can only improve again!!!

[gingereagle1969]

turn 104

The Courthouse in EyesLikeYours completed this turn due to a tile improvement, so increased tech rate to 40%

Also, we have 4 Scoobies now .. 3 to go Kyan!!

But more intriguingly:



What do you reckon viewers ... shall I start a holy war?!?

[gingereagle1969]

turn 105 [AD900]

Hmm ... still at peace.

First off ... Ernest Rutherford [Great Scientist] arrived at Dover, so now gifted to Kyan.

Courthouses built at end of turn in SheWolf & CazadorDeAmor. @40% tech we went from -5G/turn to +7G/turn - I calculate that 8G came from the savings with the Courthouses, maybe a Cottage, or two, grew into a Hamlet etc, to explain the rest.

Revised tech path timescale @40% tech:

Guild [5] -> Banking [7] -> Alphabet [3] -> Theology [5] -> Paper [6] -> Printing Press [15] -> Replaceable Parts [17]

58 turns

OK, we're clearly not going to have 58 turns of peaceful teching - Whosit could declare war any turn now & I expect Naskor/Gaspar are thinking we're a soft target and will attack the western border cities as soon as the NAP runs out @ turn 125 - so I have 20 turns to beef up our defences ... so, let's have a gander at the build orders:

WakaWakaShaka

Settler[1] -> Courthouse[4] -> Horse Archer[3]*

SheWolf

Forge[4] -> Catapult[3]*

BackInBlack

Longbowman[2 every 3 turns]*

CazadorDeAmor

Longbowman[11]*

EyesLikeYours

Settler[2] -> Horse Archer[3]*

HipsDontLie

Forge[4] -> Walls[3] -> Horse Archer[2 every 5]*

AnimalCity

Courthouse[2] -> Longbowman[2 every5]*

UltimoMomento

Work Boat[7]

*continual build order

The timings may alter based on continuing tile improvement, also, once Guilds is in, I will slip in Iron Working [2 turns] so those Horse Archers will become Knights and the Longbowmen will become Crossbowmen - will have to think of some names for them - any suggestions?

The Settlers listed above are set to settle YourEmbrace [near Tredje's city in the South-West, also spotted the leak of Barbarian culture down there ... interesting, hope they're harassing him ] and DreamsForPlans. Notice I'm not talking about the South-East lake? I've struck a deal with Kyan, he will settle where I had Timor planned, -makes sense as his culture has already over-run the Rice tile and he will trade me the Incense that that site will encompass.

[gingereagle1969]

T106

While the turn was in limbo with Gaspar, i had a long chat with Kyan on gmail. He sold me on the benefits of Bureaucracy. Therefore I am leaving the tech-path I've discussed so far, and ramping up the tech-rate, so we will complete Civil Service in 2 turns [70% @ -67g/turn] This will gives us access to Macemen [naming them PitbullXX] We also discussed the lack of hammer problem in CazadorDeAmor, I'm taking his suggestion to revert back to Slavery [thus allowing the to be used again ] So, in 2 turns, we revolt to Bureaucracy & Slavery(!)

Malakai was also on gmail; as we recently traded maps, he queried why I hadn't hooked up the Iron near Animal City ... Iron? Where? Well ... I had mooted it, but we will definitely tech Iron Working after Civil Service, at least we'll have access to Crossbowmen [SantanaXX ??? maybe] and it might be a 1 turn tech!

Hmm ... looks like we're close to becoming a UK-based alliance. Just hope I'm not the weakest link.

OK, still going to settle the 3 planned cities - GoodStuff settled this turn [yeah .. cocked up the maintenence for a short while] and the Settlers for DreamsForPlans & YourEmbrace completed at end of turn so will set off next time.

Ooh, and as advised by Kyan, the final 3 Scoobies [05, 06 & 07] finally reported for duty.

[gingereagle1969]

So T107 .. all quiet on the Whosit front

OK, Civil Service completed at end of term. Another Courthouse in place, only losing 63G/turn @ 70% tech [can do Iron working in 1 turn at 60%, maybe 50%, next turn] then we revolt to Bureaucracy & Slavery [and whip CazadorDeAmor back to the Stone Age ... it'll grow back very quickly though ] Plus a plethora of units built.

[gingereagle1969]

Turn 108

Iron Working in [@ 20% & +41G/turn] we can see the Iron tile Malakai mentioned, will be mined & hooked up shortly. Revolting next turn, then it's back onto that epic tech path to Replaceable Parts as previously planned!!

DreamsForPlans now down & YourEmbrace will be settled the turn after next.

A few more units built

Apart from that ... all quiet!

[gingereagle1969]

Turn 109

The Shakiites are revolting!!! Yeah, I think that may be the opinion of the other players too

But really, we've just taken a big step forward with Bureaucracy and a shuffle to the left, and slightly backwards, with going back to Slavery

A few more units built ... getting quite a nice stack of Timbalands in a roaded, wooded area somewhere ... just hope no-one comes along with matches & a can of petrol - what, at these prices?!?

Will switch production to Pitbulls very soon

Come on 2Pac01!! Stop looking at the scenery near Davids & get home!!! Oops, did I just mouse-over that city? Me sir? No sir!!

[gingereagle1969]

Turn 110

Tweaked the build queues so that Pitbulls will alternate with either Timbalands or BigWaynes; except in CazadorDeAmor [where we're building only Workers, too much overflow from the last chops to warrant using the so that city is being spoilt for the time being ] and WakaWakaShaka [where we're building Buddhist Missionaries for the newer cities - not before time as Tredje's Taoism spread to GoodStuff at end of turn]

Have also raised tech-level to 40% [@ -1G/turn] to get Guilds in 4 turns. That'll improve the Workshops we put down at least.