[SPOILERS] Team EggHeads: DMOC and TeddyKGB (Now Lurker-Friendly!)

[DMOC]

That's an informative report alright! Keep it up and you may yet surpass SutOxy in posts and views to win the forum war.

Thanks for the reports! Just a post to let you know I'm reading and enjoying the info.

Sounds good, I'm glad you two are enjoying watching the game in action.

Things to decide right now:

0. 14th city goes where? Near dyes? If we delay Iron Working then the city will be weaker to start
1. Iron Working or Code of Laws next? (Or other?) The cost of delaying Iron Working is a delayed dyes hookup.
2. Worker M in the south?
3. Tile shuffling between MIT/CM/Stnaford
4. Tile shuffling between Wisconsin/Berkeley/Washington
5. Military shuffling for managing hereditary rules
6. What to send to Yuufo and Catwalk? We'll want to update on diplomacy.
7. Production for Georgia Tech
8. Production for Michigan (want library?)
9. What does Cornell build after its Hindu Missionary? Wealth/worker? I assume its missionary will go to Berkeley?

(Putting this in a separate post for clarity)

I'll check back soon in case we want some discussion.


EDIT: We got an important message from SutOxy. I'll post it up here soon.

The next few days, we need to contact Yuufo, Catwalk/bandit, and Sut/Oxy and make sure we think about what we write carefully. I need to finish for the night but I'll be back tomorrow night.

Good thing game is restarted finally. I could probably logged in later today, but you may finish the turn if you wish.

0. I tho its decided -- 14th near dyes. IW is a cheap tech and not much of delay on this. Remember, we want another worker there to chop single forest into granary growing on Fish, probably.
1. IW, imo.
2. Has no idea.
3. After I logged in, I could tell.
4. Same as 3.
5. There is not much need for HR right now except CM and if we accept Silk deal soon -- we'll got more happiness.
6. Its up to you completely.
7. I was planning start Settler there at some point soon like you said.
8. There is one chop done in UMichigan and 2nd is coming. Plan was to start library once we spread Hindu into UMichigan from Cornell (on t122, I suppose). Keep at wealth till then.
9. Back on military, I suppose. Berkeley will get missionary from UMichigan later. Also, I was thinking of growing Cornell 1-2 pop more soon.

Other thing is settler from CM, it might start decay hammers by now (can't remember exactly), so we might wanna whip it there soon. I suppose it will be last whip from CM for some time.

With regards to Iron Working or Code of Laws, I originally thought city 14 should go near the dyes primarily because we'd be getting Iron Working (so we could get the grassland there cottaged) and so we could help buffer UT Austin's culture against India's city of Cheer. A delayed Iron Working means we might consider delaying that city. I'm going back and forth on this but we are putting research at 0% next turn anyway.

I logged back into the game to finish the turn.

1. I switched Michigan back to wealth. I'm assuming that overflow (e.g., from chops) is always "stored" when building wealth? EDIT: Yes, I verified it.
2. Worker M went towards Stanford (pre-chopped a forest along the way) so next turn he can go and cottage the non-roaded tundra river in Stanford. The city has something like 4 surplus food now so it's not a terrible thing to do (would prefer grassland but oh well).
3. As far as Carnegie Mellon goes, here's how the hammer total is like:

Hindu Temple: 45/80 hammers
Colloseum: 18/80 hammers
Settler: 20/100 hammers

As far as I can tell, we built the colloseum a while ago, but buildings get 50 turns of decay, while settlers (and units in general) only get 10 turns. Let's just keep the city the way it is and see if the hammers decay. Unfortunatey, switching to the unit periodically (e.g., one turn, then switching back to a building) will not stop the hammer decay. Also, if CM is building that settler, then Georgia Tech should really just stay on wealth or build a worker later. No need for additional cities right now when the economy is terrible.

In fact, for curiosity, the cities that have any sort of queue in production are:

Cornell: has 25/50 hammers in a catapult
MIT: has 33/35 hammers in an axeman (we could consider holding off on finishing these units and have MIT build wealth next turn)
Illinois: 3/35 axeman
UTAustin: 4/150 in market
Wisconsin: 54/150 in market (will probably chop the last forest in BFC to help out but I think we want the OR bonus)

4. Here are screenshots of cities. My plan is to stagnate Berkeley at size 8 for about 8 turns (until it finishes the Great Person). Then we can rearrange tiles as needed among Berkeley, Wisconsin, and Washington. In order to found the 14th city on turn 122, we need the worker on the city tile to road BEFORE the settler moves there. And we need a plan for Georgia Tech...

5. Yuufo fortified the axemen. I'm not sure what that's for.

6. No clue why Yossarian has a bunch of workers in the tundra, despite having no apparent special resource to improve.

Later tonight, after my work is finished, I'll get to work drafting the 3 messages. We won't be trading spices until turn 122 anyway so it's not stuff we need to send today (but we should do it tomorrow). Finally, did you notice Yuufo finished the turn in 2 minutes? I think in all I've spent almost two hours on this turn alone!