[SPOILERS] Pindicator emerges from the wilderness to play pb74

[Mjmd]

I bet Commodore we'd be running by Friday.  Am I about to lose that bet?

See tech thread. Probably depends on Ramks schedule tomorrow.

[Krill]

Running? No. Clown fiesta falling over each other? Maybe.

[Thoth]

Did you specify which Friday?

[pindicator]

Yeah, sadly I did say by the 1st

I would call clown fiesta falling over itself a success. It's the norm for these kinds of things after all.

[Thoth]

What's the over/under on how many turns before the first drama?

I'm going with either less than t10 or sometime around t50.

[pindicator]

I'll be optimistic and say t80 - right around when the first real war happens and someone gets caught with their pants down.

Hopefully not me.

[Thoth]

With a field this large I'm expecting someone to try early war with the usual consequences.

[Mjmd]

It probably depends what you consider a success for an early war. I would consider getting a key city site a good result. But if you consider it conquering a whole empire ya it doesn't happen often. Obviously what it cost you also matters.

[pindicator]

And we're off!

Goat Rocks is probably the most beautiful camp site I've ever personally had. The Goat Rocks Wilderness is sadly very popular and it's hard to find a spot where it just feels like you being out in nature, but it still has some dramatic views: the top of Old Snowy lets you see the Pacific Coast Trail for miles in each direction. Goat Lake (almost what I named this) seemed like something out of a fantasy setting, what with it having floating ice over a quarter of the lake in August. But the campsite I have in mind was something we stumbled on by mistake. Originally our plan was to go past Goat Lake (all the spots were taken anyway) and then on to Lost Lake in the valley below. Instead the trail had been covered in a rock slide; we spent an hour trying to find a way across before giving up - we were tired and it was getting late in the day. Lucky for us there was a stream nearby and a place where people had camped before, that gave an amazing view out over Mt. Rainier to the north:

Have not ended turn because of a couple of factors:
1. That gold looks to be on an island. This makes me not want to skip Fishing and makes me lean towards the work boat opening, even though it's not the fastest religion.
2. The settings are not what we planned for:




Huge map size instead of Large means techs are going to come slower. Or the game needs to be reset.

So I need to look at tech timing again and see how delayed BW is if we go religion first.

Hopefully we get a relevant tech out of that hut (Fishing, Mysticism) then I feel like we could change our plans on a dime.


Password is: camino

[pindicator]

000

And we're going again, this time with the correct map settings:




Let's go get that religion. Hitru, I've never played an opening like this in MP but I can see the merit in a big shrine longterm with this many players, so I'm game.

Also, I just realize now that I probably should unselect Mysticism in case our scout picks up that tech from the hut.