[SPOILERS - PBEM17] novice and spaceman - Suryavarman of India

[novice]

T58 played.

[novice]

Got it. And played. We must remember next turn to switch EPs away from Darrell, got his graphs this turn. And maybe send some money to Rego.

[spacemanmf]

Got it. And played. We must remember next turn to switch EPs away from Darrell, got his graphs this turn. And maybe send some money to Rego.

What's all this "we" talk?

[novice]

Pictures from T59 (after ending turn):








We founded Bull Market and four workers and another settler in the area. Next turn two of them can road the cows, two of them can mine the forested hill. That lets the settler reach the next site faster. Bull market will get to 6/14 food. The turn after we can pasture the cows with two workers (I already put one turn into the pasture) and complete the mine/chop (I already put one turn into it). That lets Bull Market complete the granary and reach 10/14 food.

We have a work boat coming from Gold Rush to hook up the clams, so Bull Market should keep growing quickly. The workers should head further down the arm to road to the next city and chop out workboats and a granary.

We have a settler returning from the Kyan expedition. I'm thinking we could send him over land down our southwestern arm and board the galley we have down there, and settle one of our western islands. The filler cities aren't urgent to settle, and I don't think we'll be building that many settlers in the short term, because:

We discovered Metal Casting and our cities want to grow. Forges and Markets are in order. I think Investment and Trading Post should start Forges. We might consider going for a Colossus build in Investment, for fail gold, or in case Rego gets complacent.

[mackoti]

Nice game guys.You dontt think your capital is a litle to small for this time?My opinion is that you have to forget whiping on capitol and start growing a litle bit.:neenernee.

[spacemanmf]

Nice game guys.You dontt think your capital is a litle to small for this time?My opinion is that you have to forget whiping on capitol and start growing a litle bit.:neenernee.

Just watch it over the next few turns...

[SevenSpirits]

Nice game guys.You dontt think your capital is a litle to small for this time?My opinion is that you have to forget whiping on capitol and start growing a litle bit.:neenernee.

Aw, that's only important for bureacracy or an academy. And they have TGLH! And it has enough food to grow one pop per turn up into the low teens I think anyway.

Oh, question (which you may have answered already): Do you like your decision to not move onto the plains hill?

[novice]

Oh, question (which you may have answered already): Do you like your decision to not move onto the plains hill?

I'm not sure if the decision was correct in a vacuum, but it was given the placement of Investment. That spot would have been invalid if we settled Capital on the plains hill. And being able to share two food resources has been very useful. Also our mines have served as quazi food resources when building workers and settlers.

What do you think?

[novice]

Got it.

[novice]

Played T60. Rego took care of the bookkeeping and requested 21 gold from us.



Demographics:



Darrell's already settled the clams I inquired about, without further comment. I am not amused.



I have half a mind to just settle the "c" spot and chop a library, stealing the clams. Or we can settle the "or here" and "and here" locations instead.

I guess the lesson to take away is that noone is going to do us any favours in this game, and there's no point asking nicely. [/venting]