Dantski's 2015-16 spam thread [spoilers mb]]

[Dantski]

T78




Took the barb city to the east, the barb warrior next to the city has combat 1 so there's a chance he might beat my wounded axeman and take it back but its unlikely.




Founded a city to the south which gets horses.

Resettling Lower Dicker with the next settler and then capital will work towards Hanging Gardens. Without any chops I doubt I'll get it but I feel like I want to try.

[Dantski]

So uhh.. why would you need to be logged in for 3 straight hours?

Mukha and I were discussing a little about whether it would be possible to just have one person on a team stay logged in and send a save file of the current position to a teammate who would manipulate sims to try and get the best result possible.

I'm not accusing anyone of cheating but I am interested in whether people could do something like this in theory. What was the deal with the guy Krill teamed with ages ago who was accused of cheating? Was it by doing something similar ot the above or something completely different?

Oh and built hanging gardens during my prophets golden age and stuff but who cares about that?

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

What does the empire look like these days? Any new cities, land discovery, etc?

[GermanJoey]

Congrats on the HG! How many cities did you have?

[Dantski]

Congrats on the HG! How many cities did you have?

If X = the number of cities I should have then I'm going to guess X-3.

Fine I'll do a soddin' turn report.

T98




I currently have 6 cities was it worth building HG for that many? Maybe not but I have stone so I did it anyway. There are 2 settlers in production and I have a couple of axemen looking to take the barb city Scythian to the east. There's another barb city Phrygian further along the coast and I'll look to take that as well.

Virtually every city is building a Hamman or has one built already. Some of my Hanging Gardens pop will go towards whipping the slower builds out.

Also OT4E got circumnavigation bonus this turn so now we all have to deal with 4 movement galleys, wonderful. At least I have research visibility on them.




Golden Age boosted demo's, someone had a big spike in GNP this turn so they surpassed even my boosted GNP with 2 wonders. Currently I'd guess I'm around 5th / 6th place. I didn't get crippled as badly as most of OT4E's victims so I'm at least somewhat relevant.

My main problem right now is defence, 4 move galleys are going to be an absolute bitch to defend against especially when I need to be expanding fast and getting infrastructure built. The general feeling is, fuck defence, if they attack again I can't defend everything at once and I have enough pop to whip and units to shuffle around to stop an invasion wiping me out.

[Dantski]

The whine thread continues.

Now over 24 hours since the previous team played their turn. OT4E and 2metra have both logged over 30 mins each on this turn and not played their turn and got a pause.

I know people like to team and play together but if you're able to play the damn turn you don't ask for a pause and slow the game down for everyone else because a teammate isn't there to hold your hand.

[Dantski]

T102

2 new people met. Lonewolf had a stray warrior near Scythian to the east a couple turns ago and this turn my work boat found TheWannabe to the west.




Offered him OB but he'll probably decline. Its nice to find someone who's not ahead on cities and hopefully we can be trading partners providing nothing negative happens.




Speaking of the barb city Scythian, I had a setback last turn when an Axe lost to a defending warrior at 99% odds. At least the city didn't produce another unit this turn so my remaining axe finished the job. The city is size 4 and in revolt for 5(!) turns. I'm bringing another 2 axes over in the next 5-6 turns and hopefully can move south onto the next barb city.

The city capture gold means I can speed up research a bit to get Monarchy in 2t. After that I'm not entirely sure what to get. Confucianism is still available with CoL and half cost courthouses sound like a good idea so that's my current plan.

[Dantski]

T107

Wasn't planning on an update but had a trade offer appear upon logging in so figured why not?




I had no plans to try and build any marble wonders and I'm currently trying to catch up on some expansion so this offer feels like a bit of a red herring that would slow me down. Nevertheless I took a look at marble wonders and there's 2 that are going to fall relatively soon, Mausoleum and Great Library. Mausoleum comes with Calendar which I'll be researching after CoL but my tech rate right now has slowed with extra cities being founded etc. Not to mention some of my cities are right on the happy cap right now and could use the ivory happiness, I'll be connecting more ivory soon enough if they still want the trade then. Ultimately this trade seems bad for me right now so I'm not taking it, they did accept my OB offer last turn though which finally gives me some foreign trade routes. I got OB with Lonewolf but barb's culture blocks trade for now and TheWannabe declined OB.

This turn also brought this unwelcome sight...




If they declare again I am locking them in war for the rest of the game. They are also playing their stupid clock games and playing as late as possible even though they've already logged in and whipped this turn. Well I've whipped a bunch of units this turn but 1-2 cities will fall probably before the attack is stopped.




My 2 newest cities to the north. Neither will be getting the attention they deserve right now since there's a probably invasion.




One of my exploring workboats found OH and Gavagai/Zanth close together.

I noticed this turn that TheWannabe has signed OB with everyone he's met, except me. Curious, but maybe its because I'm the first one that's found him before he's found me?

[Dantski]

1AD screens as Commodore requested.




12 cities at present, I plan on adding a couple of filler cities to my east and possibly the other barb city if GreyWolf is particularly slow taking it. The west should be hotly contested between myself, the Vikings and TheWannabe. I have a couple of islands to the south so settle but not sure how many I can get down there yet.







Current tech tree progress. I think I made a fast start but I'm now firmly behind the leaders I imagine.




Not asked for but I assume people would also want to see demographics at this date. I'm mostly ahead of the people who are really struggling but behind 3-5 others. I didn't realize I'd dropped to 8th in soldiers as it wasn't long ago I whipped a number of units out and I've been slipping military builds in to my capital now and then.

[Dantski]

Just a quick rules question.

I declared war on TheWannabe this turn purely so I could move through 3 coast tiles. I have zero intention of attacking him.

Do we still have to go by a turn split? I guess he doesn't know for sure that this is a phony war (although he should've seen my boats on his border).