[Spoiler] Island hoppers

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Well everyone's GNP jumped by 1 on T2 so definitely have mirrored starts. I will let a warrior explore if a city W of rice is viable and send scout inward.

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Small island is small but you can fit 4 cities in it. I do have it down that Yuris researched fishing on T3 and AI researched Agriculture on T5. Commodore and ipecac have probably been researching AH like me.

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so Commodore did research AH but ipecac is going BW first? Is he going to whip out the WB? I have to admit, this is not an opening I tried.

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A preliminary test finds that whipping the WB is pretty bad but oh well.

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So ipecac did research BW as expected but looks like yuris researched myst?! This is really strange, and it seemed like he changed techs for 1 turn otherwise should have gotten it last turn. The other puzzling item is that someone is researching a tech with 2 prereqs and if I am reading this right, it can only mean at AI is researching masonry for some reason.

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Pity that a city to the west directly is not an option right now. The 2nd city should be at the deer site, which means now I need to research hunting. I did come-up with a contingency plan that will involve making a worker right at size 2. Late city is late.

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I need a ton of commerce to clear the early techs so I tried fishing first and it was pretty good. Do need to find a way to settle island cities for the fur and gold first since while food is not an issue, happiness will be.

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Commodore's also improved cows and researched mining like I did but I do wonder if he is also going worker 2nd and researching fishing. The worker will complete in 4 turns because the improved rice will provide 2 extra FH to finish the worker with 0 overflow.
On T12, AI, ipecac, and Yuris grew to 2 also and the former 2 finished a tech. There was a global power increase of 4. I can safely assume that AI researched AH, and that besides commodore, no one else has yet to make a warrior since they are not working the extra hammers from the cow. This means that ipecac has researched hunting.

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Well i had to revise the tech for T12 since top power was still 11 so ipecac researched fishing. I am so confused by the demos already. The item that really bugs me is the 21 GNP starting from T8 that I cannot account for except Yuris researching Pottery or AI researching Masonry but both choices seem bad since no one is expansive. It probably was Yuris since the top GNP dropped to 19 on that turn, which is the same turn he researched a tech. But then why would pottery take so long to research? Commodore did research fishing as well but he opted to mine the PH i believe.

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I been so stupid... For some reason, I thought Ethiopia was a Agr/TW civ when in fact they start with Hunt/Mine. Now Yuris techs make a lot more sense. He researched fishing, Agriculture, and AH. Impressive opening except will he plant his 2nd city without a road network for the trade route? Commodore also grew to 3 although I am ahead because I improved the rice first. Ipecac is definitely behind since he has still not improved the cows.