EDIT: this is a response for your earlier post, next post must wait until tomorrow.. 
That's a lot of interesting points Hydra!
I definitely have to read your post again, but here are some quick comments.
- dtay is surely doing well, playing well and has currently very good demos. I think Harry had read somewhere positive comment of him doing well at CFC or something.
However, if we did not have this burning situation with suttree I would say that we will have a fair chance to beat him at our continent. I think I already mentioned in our discussion with Harry that I think that dtay's early-game land was stronger than ours, but in the long-term we could have a very competitive amount of grassland tiles to workshop/cottage and end up ahead (Even from our current position where we already have invested a shitload of hammers into military which is costing us way too much gold). Of course, there is this fellow suttree and we are just waiting when the huge dice rolling begins so we might not be able to compete with anybody... 
- plako does not actually look that hot to me. Yet. He is doing well of course. He has those 2 powerful wonders, but I think he has paid for them with slower expansion. Next time when I log in I count his pop points so that I have some data to support my claim. What's of course worrying is that his geopolitical position is so easy.
It seems that he has only Dhalpir as a close neighbor and I guess plako will crush him when he runs out of peaceful expansion room. I really hope that Dhalpir proves me wrong here though. If Serdoa had kept on playing I would have a more positive feeling about that area, but now I'm worried..
But yeah, need to read your post again. First sleep!
@Harry: I will have little time to check the new turn tomorrow morning, important meeting in the early afternoon and again more time later in the afternoon/evening.
That's a lot of interesting points Hydra!
I definitely have to read your post again, but here are some quick comments.- dtay is surely doing well, playing well and has currently very good demos. I think Harry had read somewhere positive comment of him doing well at CFC or something.
However, if we did not have this burning situation with suttree I would say that we will have a fair chance to beat him at our continent. I think I already mentioned in our discussion with Harry that I think that dtay's early-game land was stronger than ours, but in the long-term we could have a very competitive amount of grassland tiles to workshop/cottage and end up ahead (Even from our current position where we already have invested a shitload of hammers into military which is costing us way too much gold). Of course, there is this fellow suttree and we are just waiting when the huge dice rolling begins so we might not be able to compete with anybody... - plako does not actually look that hot to me. Yet. He is doing well of course. He has those 2 powerful wonders, but I think he has paid for them with slower expansion. Next time when I log in I count his pop points so that I have some data to support my claim. What's of course worrying is that his geopolitical position is so easy.
It seems that he has only Dhalpir as a close neighbor and I guess plako will crush him when he runs out of peaceful expansion room. I really hope that Dhalpir proves me wrong here though. If Serdoa had kept on playing I would have a more positive feeling about that area, but now I'm worried..But yeah, need to read your post again. First sleep!
@Harry: I will have little time to check the new turn tomorrow morning, important meeting in the early afternoon and again more time later in the afternoon/evening.