Had a quick look around our civ and it looks good. I mean, it looks good as long as we forget our geopolitical situation etc. 
Some domestic comments:
- Economics will be awesome, if I understand the mechanics correctly. Free market should bring us ~100 commerce altogether. At least 54 through new routes and 37 throught that +25 % bonus (we have currently one 8 commerce route and 35 routes worth 4-7 commerce)
- We should switch out of Pacifism, we are paying 70 gold - handicap reduction just for unit costs and we don't run that many specialists. Whether simply Paganism or OR is better depends whether we are going to build infra.. Buro vs. Vassalage is also of course dependant whether we need those extra promos, pure economically Buro is clearly better.
- Will we soon be in caste again? Our workshops are longing for it, or are we afraid of mack/someone else attacking us and we need the safety from whip?
- Jamestown is probably building wealth only temporirarily. I would love to see the city building couple of ships so that we could consider opportunistic attacks towards suttree's most eastern city and TBSJ's island.
Macro comments:
- plako does have a decent amount of WW and his power drop couple of turns ago was significant (not huge though). No idea if Dhal is playing awesome or bad, but at least he is doing what m_h and Nakor should have done. Too bad for plako of course. His position is very pleasent with only Dhalphir as a close neighhbor and in another game that might be even enough for win. This time mack and scoopinhelium just got too much too easily.
- Lewwyn has surprisingly little WW. How many cities has he taken from Azza? I imagined that Azza would put up a decent defence, but now I checked civstats and see that he also plays ~6 minutes per turn..
- Meanwhile suttree spent 1 hour with his last turn
Have you missed my rants?
I have to say that I expected more from this group of players. What Nakor did was just despiteful, m_h also just willingly tossed the game and without knowing much of the situation Azza does not seem to put up much of an effort. I'm still a bit pissed off that suttree whipped his civ to ground just that he could revenge us, but that's still thousand times more sporting than what Nakor did. It just seems so wasteful to spend so much time with a game and then see something this lame.. The map was supposed to be unbalanced and we have a diverse group of players, that's cool, but I guess I just had too high expectations regarding how people play out these games once they realize how weak their position is.
Some domestic comments:
- Economics will be awesome, if I understand the mechanics correctly. Free market should bring us ~100 commerce altogether. At least 54 through new routes and 37 throught that +25 % bonus (we have currently one 8 commerce route and 35 routes worth 4-7 commerce)
- We should switch out of Pacifism, we are paying 70 gold - handicap reduction just for unit costs and we don't run that many specialists. Whether simply Paganism or OR is better depends whether we are going to build infra.. Buro vs. Vassalage is also of course dependant whether we need those extra promos, pure economically Buro is clearly better.
- Will we soon be in caste again? Our workshops are longing for it, or are we afraid of mack/someone else attacking us and we need the safety from whip?
- Jamestown is probably building wealth only temporirarily. I would love to see the city building couple of ships so that we could consider opportunistic attacks towards suttree's most eastern city and TBSJ's island.
Macro comments:
- plako does have a decent amount of WW and his power drop couple of turns ago was significant (not huge though). No idea if Dhal is playing awesome or bad, but at least he is doing what m_h and Nakor should have done. Too bad for plako of course. His position is very pleasent with only Dhalphir as a close neighhbor and in another game that might be even enough for win. This time mack and scoopinhelium just got too much too easily.
- Lewwyn has surprisingly little WW. How many cities has he taken from Azza? I imagined that Azza would put up a decent defence, but now I checked civstats and see that he also plays ~6 minutes per turn..
- Meanwhile suttree spent 1 hour with his last turn
Have you missed my rants?
I have to say that I expected more from this group of players.
What Nakor did was just despiteful, m_h also just willingly tossed the game and without knowing much of the situation Azza does not seem to put up much of an effort. I'm still a bit pissed off that suttree whipped his civ to ground just that he could revenge us, but that's still thousand times more sporting than what Nakor did. It just seems so wasteful to spend so much time with a game and then see something this lame.. The map was supposed to be unbalanced and we have a diverse group of players, that's cool, but I guess I just had too high expectations regarding how people play out these games once they realize how weak their position is.