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[DMOC]

Some ideas on micromanagement (and a few other things)

I ran another simulation in the hopes of us maintaining a strong position by turn 70. Here's a current proposed plan. Also, see the end of this post for ideas on diplomacy.

Just an FYI: This plan has us with 2 fewer gold than in real game since we don't have another team building SH.

The proposed plan:

Turn 48: Two chops will have finished this turn, so both the worker and settler are 1 turn to completion.

Worker A: Chops (3/3), so he is finished and has no additional movement points
Worker B: Moves 1 tile south, roads (1/2)
Worker C: Chops (3/3)

Turn 49: REVOLT TO SLAVERY. Settler is done from CM, and Worker D is done from MIT (so no better time than now). Agriculture finished, start Pottery.

Worker A: Roads (1/2), we will need this for later when we settle north, ideally with the fourth city.
Worker B: Roads (2/2)
Worker C: Mines (1/4), the capital will need it once it grows to size 5.
Worker D: Move 3-1 (via roads) and then roads (1/2)

Settler: Move 1-4 to be 1 turn away from the city site.

Turn 50: Stanford is founded!

Worker A: Roads (2/2)
Worker B: Move 1-1, then road (1/2) to get horses connected ASAP.
Worker C: Mines (2/4)
Worker D: Roads (2/2). Do this before the city is founded to get the trade route!

CM: Starts on a warrior, due in 3 turns (and will grow to size 5 in 3 turns)
MIT: Put a few turns into a settler, MIT will regrow to size 4 then continue settler from there.
Stanford: Starts a 4-turn warrior, works the grassland mine.

Pictures for Turn 50 (we currently have 4 workers, 3 cities, and 3 warriors, plus a scout):

Turn 51: No major news this turn.

Worker A: Move 3 (i.e. grass forest 8-7 of CM
Worker B: Roads (2/2).
Worker C: Mines (3/4)
Worker D: Move 1, roads (1/2)

No micro changes in cities.

Turn 52: No major news this turn.

Worker A: Chop (1/3)
Worker B: Move onto horses (ideally with warrior protection) and roads (1/2)
Worker C: Mines (4/4)
Worker D: Roads (2/2)

Micro:

Capital now switches from a 2F 1H forest to a 4H plains hill mine for more overflow into next turn.


Turn 53: Capital grows to size 5. Bring research down to 80% to still finish Pottery next turn.

Worker A: Chop (2/3)
Worker B: Wait until worker D moves and roads the horses. Then move 3-3 via road to road the wheat.
Worker C: Moves 1 south, roads (1/2), I think this is better to road since we're going to use it to move south, and we don't need to road the plains hill mine in the capital as in all likelihood it will not have a resource.
Worker D: Moves 1, then finishes the road on the horses. This move allows worker B to move to the wheat.

Micro:

CM: Start settler
MIT: Continue settler but will grow to size 4 once horses are hooked up
Stanford: Gives up mine so work 2F 1H forest.

Pictures:

Turn 54: Pottery finished, start Writing, but turn research down to 0%.

Worker A: Chop into Carnegie Mellon finished.
Worker B & D: Both come together on the tile 1 of Stanford to cottage (2/4).
Worker C: Starts cottage (1/4), save road for later.

Micro:

Cities: nothing changes


Turn 55: Research back to 100%, Stanford's borders expand.

Worker A: Move 8-7 on hill.
Worker B & D: Both pasture horse (2/4)
Worker C: Cottage (2/4)

CM: Whip settler for 2 population, next turn will overflow into a granary.
MIT: Get pigs now, work gold, cows, pigs
Stanford: Start granary, get control of 1F 3H tile again.

Current tiles (CM when whipped gives up the pigs and a grass hill mine:

Turn 56: Settler in capital done. Horses hooked up. Research back to 0%.

Worker A: Road (1/2)
Worker B & D: Horse (4/4)
Worker C: Cottage (3/4)

Settler: Move onto tile 1 south of worker A.

CM: Can grow using 3 max food tiles AND build granary in 1 turn. (See screenshot). We can also build a chariot in 1 turn for insurance.
MIT: Work gold, cows, grass hill mine.
Stanford: Continue granary, but get the horses.

Screenshots:

Turn 57: Research back to 100%. Capital finishes granary (or chariot if necessary) and starts on a chariot (or granary if chariot needed earlier).

Worker A: Road (2/2)
Worker B & D: Wheat farm (2/5)
Worker C: Cottage (4/4)

Settler moves via road worker A created, then 7. Ideally we'll have some warriors out there.

Turn 58: Settler moves 1 north, again hopefully we have the warriors there.

Worker A: Move 8.
Worker B & D: Wheat farm (4/5)
Worker C: Road (2/2)

Micro doesn't change, capital still grows grows.

Turn 59: UC Berkeley (city #4) founded this turn. Unfortunately, the worker won't have a road finished in time. Settler done in MIT. Move settler to our projected city 5 site.

Worker A: Road (1/2)
Worker B: Wheat farm (5/5)
Worker C: Move onto forest 2N of capital (road to copper)
Worker D: Move 8, cottage (3/4)

CM: Work fish, deer, cottage, and plains hill mine. Work on chariot.
MIT: Work gold, cow, pigs. Work on chariot.
Stanford: Work the wheat
UC Berkeley: No change

Turn 60 (end of simulation): Settler should be very close to wherever we want city 5. We do need defense but we don't need some interior warriors and we will get chariots up soon.

Overall situation

Worker A: Road (1/2)
Worker B: Wheat farm (5/5)
Worker C: Move onto forest 2N of capital (road to copper)
Worker D: Move 8, cottage (3/4)

CM: Work fish, deer, cottage, and plains hill mine. Work on chariot.
MIT: Work gold, cow, pigs. Work on chariot.
Stanford: Work the wheat
UC Berkeley: No change


So ideally we have 4 cities, with a 5th to be founded on turn 61, with chariots coming in soon. One downside is that this plan is low on workers ... and Stanford is 'over-improved', i.e. we're improving it too fast. Perhaps we can divert a worker north ... or we could settle our 5th city towards Orgynized. But we really do need to move east as well. Any comments? In particular, should MIT even build a settler? Do we want to grow it to size 4 and then build, or invest some turns into settler, then grow to size 4, have chariot done, then finish settler?

Edit: Yeah, upon further thought, I think I'd be happy if MIT could wait until size 4 to build a settler. Then what does it do in the meantime? Yet another worker? If we can get it so that it goes Worker -> Granary (partial) -> Chariot (finish) -> Settler that might be decent, but MIT grows too slowly without the pigs to whip.

Edit again: How about sticking with a settler, but have MIT grow to size 4 ASAP once horses are hooked up, then do chariot -> settler? Then again, that's the time when the capital should grow too.

After MIT grows to size 4 and finishes a chariot, we can start a worker there...Stanford and CM should get libraries once their current builds are done.


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On Diplomacy

Right now, I'm happy with the way we've set up relations with Care Bears and Asterix. Both seem reasonably nice to us. Right now, those two seem to be running into some problems with each other over settled land, which is good for us. In light of that, and also due to Care Bears' rapid expansion, we really should be siding with Asterix if there's ever some sort of conflict. Let's send a few messages to him in the near future to explore some of these (admittedly long-term) ideas. We also need to centralize our messaging; can we do all correspondence with one email account?





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Here's the turn 48, 'real' game situation.