I'm finally back from holiday and on a screenshot-capable computer. Here's where we are. Over the last few turns, I've been busy building cottages, and researching Pottery and Fishing. This turn, I founded the 4th city
A chop immediately went into a WB. This was an easy to settle spot, which also puts a city on the way towards the copper resource. Here's the settling plan for that
I feel we have to expand in that direction rather quickly - I'm paranoid about having just Warriors for defence. I would like to settle the pig and wheat resources 9 of the capital, but with high maintenance costs on Torusland, I'm prioritising copper for now
In terms of foreign relations, I found Ichabod some distance away from us
He's playing an interesting game - he's still on 2 cities, but they're quite large. He's likely trying to use his Charismatic trait, but don't think vertical growth is worth sacrificing expansion
So, Dtay is our close neighbour in the east, Ichabod a far away neighbour in the west. We also have contact with Noble, but don't know where he is. No contact with Seven
Research is on Writing atm - once it's finished, I will be able to get a Library in Memphis and finally claim horses. Then we will be all set for further expansion. Not sure about post-Writing research yet, probably Maths - Currency? Both Buddhism and Hinduism were founded, and religion branch is not looking attractive atm - although we will want CoL at some point
A chop immediately went into a WB. This was an easy to settle spot, which also puts a city on the way towards the copper resource. Here's the settling plan for that
I feel we have to expand in that direction rather quickly - I'm paranoid about having just Warriors for defence. I would like to settle the pig and wheat resources 9 of the capital, but with high maintenance costs on Torusland, I'm prioritising copper for now
In terms of foreign relations, I found Ichabod some distance away from us
He's playing an interesting game - he's still on 2 cities, but they're quite large. He's likely trying to use his Charismatic trait, but don't think vertical growth is worth sacrificing expansion
So, Dtay is our close neighbour in the east, Ichabod a far away neighbour in the west. We also have contact with Noble, but don't know where he is. No contact with Seven
Research is on Writing atm - once it's finished, I will be able to get a Library in Memphis and finally claim horses. Then we will be all set for further expansion. Not sure about post-Writing research yet, probably Maths - Currency? Both Buddhism and Hinduism were founded, and religion branch is not looking attractive atm - although we will want CoL at some point