Ok,
I made the effort I kind of promised. Here is the sandbox for the beginning of T99 (assuming that suttree does not pillage our cows or some other surprises during the next hours). It required quite a bit of tweaking and I did not manage to make it perfect (would have required more time) and so there are 5 differences compared to our game state:
- Sandbox has 1 beaker more than reality
- We have gems instead of traded ivory for happiness
- We don't have extra health from traded clams
- Endor has 2 extra hammers in spear
- Isandlwana has 2 extra hammer in barracks
These are all issues that can be fixed in future sandboxes, but for now I think our sandbox is good enough for doing detailed planning. I think it would be very useful if we would both make a practise run or two. Bulbing Philosophy could be a decent target. It's clear that suttree situation (and other surprises) will force us to deviate from any plan we make, but having an idea how to play the next 15 turns will surely be beneficial for our decision making.
I also made a small GNP analysis.
- Our GNP is 106 when researching Calendar with 100 %.
- It remains the same when selecting CoL or Compass (nobody has them yet)
- GNP is 107 when researching Alphabet (mostly_harmless)
- GNP is 107 when researching Aesthetics (1 opponent)
- GNP is 108 when researching HBR (I would bet slowcheetah for Keshiks, but who else?)
- GNP is 108 when researching MC (Jowy/TBS oracled it probably, but who else?)
- GNP is 111 when researching Masonry (4 or 5 opponents)
- I did not bother with AH & Mysticism since that would have required doing actually some math...
I made the effort I kind of promised. Here is the sandbox for the beginning of T99 (assuming that suttree does not pillage our cows or some other surprises during the next hours). It required quite a bit of tweaking and I did not manage to make it perfect (would have required more time) and so there are 5 differences compared to our game state:
- Sandbox has 1 beaker more than reality
- We have gems instead of traded ivory for happiness
- We don't have extra health from traded clams
- Endor has 2 extra hammers in spear
- Isandlwana has 2 extra hammer in barracks
These are all issues that can be fixed in future sandboxes, but for now I think our sandbox is good enough for doing detailed planning. I think it would be very useful if we would both make a practise run or two. Bulbing Philosophy could be a decent target. It's clear that suttree situation (and other surprises) will force us to deviate from any plan we make, but having an idea how to play the next 15 turns will surely be beneficial for our decision making.
I also made a small GNP analysis.
- Our GNP is 106 when researching Calendar with 100 %.
- It remains the same when selecting CoL or Compass (nobody has them yet)
- GNP is 107 when researching Alphabet (mostly_harmless)
- GNP is 107 when researching Aesthetics (1 opponent)
- GNP is 108 when researching HBR (I would bet slowcheetah for Keshiks, but who else?)
- GNP is 108 when researching MC (Jowy/TBS oracled it probably, but who else?)
- GNP is 111 when researching Masonry (4 or 5 opponents)
- I did not bother with AH & Mysticism since that would have required doing actually some math...