A Record of Joey's Journey to Immortality

[JR4]

Do you mind if I log in and take a look at your civ?

[GermanJoey]

Do you mind if I log in and take a look at your civ?

sure, go for it man. password is "agua"

[GermanJoey]

One bit of drama you may not have realized existed: you only beat me to the Great Lighthouse by one turn.

I chose to build it in a rather suboptimal location -- third city of Castleview, right on the tense border with Gavagai; I didn't have a better location, but I had enough scouting to know that most players couldn't be competitive.  I thought you and JR4 were the only players who could be seriously trying when I started, and while I had the project underway, my scouts soon watched JR4 focusing on getting out a quick first island city out of his most likely city.  That left you.

I had scouts poking around Seven Mysteries (you probably noticed them), and figured I had you beat by one turn if you didn't have great tiles I couldn't see.  Whoops, you did!  If Gavagai was watching me, he would have seen me enthusiastically getting workers chopping, then suddenly give up just before you built the Great Lighthouse.

damn, tough break man.

[JR4]

sure, go for it man. password is "agua"

Thanks! I had a look around your Empire. Wow, I must say that Portsmith is a beautiful city, making a cool +19 food per turn! Oh, it even borrowed away one of the pigs to another city. No wonder you built the Globe there.

Also, I`m a bit surprised to see that you never built Oxford University (and only 3 Universities). Is Oxford not worth the investment? I think of it as a must-build, nicely speeding up the research rate.

[GermanJoey]

sure, go for it man. password is "agua"

Thanks! I had a look around your Empire. Wow, I must say that Portsmith is a beautiful city, making a cool +19 food per turn! Oh, it even borrowed away one of the pigs to another city. No wonder you built the Globe there.

Also, I`m a bit surprised to see that you never built Oxford University (and only 3 Universities). Is Oxford not worth the investment? I think of it as a must-build, nicely speeding up the  research rate.

Ah, I didn't get Education until really late, when I was making a break for AL... IIRC it was around T200ish. By that time, I didn't have a lot of hammers to spare for things like Universities. 

Oxford is good but remember that it actually costs almost 2000 total hammers (well, minus ~130 hammers due to stone). That's a mighty big price tag, and some of the cities where I'd have wanted to put Universities were also some of my best shipyards. Tough decisions!

(IIRC, my NE was 1 turn off from finishing its University, and then I had 2 more queued up. so that'd have given me 7)

[OT4E]

Well if you are making 2000 beakers per turn on maximum getting 100 in one single city is not that important. So Oxford is good for small empires like yours when commerce is focused in 1 city. Also it works better with bureaucracy, with SPI you could save gold in nationhood and spend it in bureaucracy getting the best outcome from your oxford city.

[Miguelito]

Just wanted to say that i had a very nice read with this thread the last few days, and congrats on the game won !