Kyan's PBEM50 Thread [SPOILERS]

[Kyan]

Final decision pending on food, however, the choices as I see them:

Charles de Gaulle (Ind, Cha)of England (Fishing, Mining)
Louis XIV (Cre, Ind)of Persia (Agriculture, Hunting)
Suryavarman (Exp, Cre)of Germany (Hunting, Mining)

Notes:

Sury
If we take EXP, there is currently no way I can see to get the extra hammer.
Can tech either Agri or AH to get food hooked quickly and the mining will be useful shortly.
Expand fast using the gold to afford it.

De Gaulle
Not a huge number of forests to chop (for Stonehenge?)
Fishing looks to be redundant for awhile. Likely Agriculture first. If we have only AH food, it will be frustrating.
Stonehenge fast, grow capital to max size and work a million cottages everywhere.

Louis
Louis could grab a cheap AH first so is definitely fine for food.
Otherwise, would head straight to BW.
Build pyramids.

I feel like Suryavaraman is the right choice. It's just dull. In this company, i'm not sure I can afford to take anything than the most optimal though. If we take Sury, we swap 2 happiness everywhere and cheaper wonders for cheaper workers and granaries. However, we also get a quicker start by not investing in Stonehenge.

[Kyan]

Celia- please don't think i'm ungrateful. I truly appreciate you sorting the map out for us. Thank you for acting so promptly.

[pindicator]

Now I'm wondering if you consider gold edible out of game

[Ceiliazul]

I apologize for the delay, and the controversy. I know there is a split vote on seeing your food resources... that suck for everyone.

My goal is for you players to have fun, and starting on equal footing is part of that. I will make a similar post in each thread. I will take the heat if folks get mad.

Kyan, your start includes wet rice.

[Qgqqqqq]

Okay there's no way that I'm entering into the tech thread "discussion".
I will say that I understood that one of the consequences of the script is not always knowing your starting setup.
Also, I hold no ill will to Ceilizul on the matter, its easy to get a different impression of player expectations.

[Kyan]

I can't help but suspect (although I know them better than this) that people's votes are skewed by how nice their start looks (as mine inevitably is).

We all have the same information now so why do we need a new map?

[Qgqqqqq]

Perhaps its due to the desire to test the mapscript - if this is a significant problem he might add a program for it.

[Kyan]

This is the biggest load of drama over literally nothing.

My capital is brilliant, but sure i'll re-roll for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I genuinely can not think of one good reason why. Whatever, i'm outvoted because the others didn't like their capitals then.

[Kyan]

This is the biggest load of drama over literally nothing.

My capital is brilliant, but sure i'll re-roll for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I genuinely can not think of one good reason why. Whatever, i'm outvoted because the others didn't like their capitals then.

Hypocrite.

Blah, frustrating. Onwards!

[BRickAstley]