(May 24th, 2013, 18:08)Old Harry Wrote: Is knowing exactly how many of a smaller number better than getting an uncertain larger number? (Actually is my assumption wrong - do you know if you get more readers there than you would here?)
I read and enjoyed your PB5 reports, but I didn't really like the way the blog was laid out, its hard to refer back to older posts like you can here, so it can get a bit hard to follow.
What I intend to do is to use one of the posts on the first page to link to every turn report.
(May 25th, 2013, 00:12)NobleHelium Wrote: I haven't read your blog yet, but I really hope you don't follow your previous report style of just posting a screenshot of every god damned city every god damned turn. That really doesn't give much information. It was hard to even keep track of where each city was relative to every other city. Overview screenshots with more information on plans and detail on tactics is much better, and without a billion useless city screenshots that are 90% of the same from turn to turn (and often captioned by "boring"), it's a lot easier to keep track of the actual useful information.
Not that you're likely to listen to any of that, but at least I tried.
You think giving the same overview screenshot every single turn, plus the same plan, is good reporting? And labelling all 50+ workers in each screenshot? That would make each screenshot unreadable. In each game I'm intending to report on from now on I'm going to focus on different topics, and in PB5 it was city management so that's what got posted. Worker pictures of workers don't matter if you can see the change in tile improvements turn by turn.
That said, I'm not going to be posting that many screenshots, partly because I don't expect to have more than 8 cities for most of the game. Most of the early game is going to be about scouting, sentry nets and posturing, with most of the mid game being about trying to hold my borders, and the late game won't happen cos it'll be a concession like all PBEMs.