We had a bit of a general chat so some of this will be repetition for FT:
Workers
I noticed we've only got 16 workers for our 19 cities. Given how much FIN coast we have to work that's not so bad, and FT has got all the new cities up and running nice and quickly, but if Gertie needs to stagnate I think a few more workers are the way to go.
With Guilds coming soon we could start laying down a few workshops. The Sacrificial Altar actually makes this a difficult decision - nerfed RTR 1-pop whipping is going to be great for us, probably better than +1 hammer Caste workshops would be and much more flexible, so I see us staying in slavery until the 2-man golden age (where I think we'll switch to Merc/Caste to generate more GP points, getting us to Free Market by the end). After that I'd guess we'll be in Caste System for the rest of the game, switching to State Property in the 3-man golden age. So we don't really need a lot more right now.
GP points
At the end of the GA Cornelius will have about 156 GPPs, if it continues making 6 GPPs we'll have the GM t145. It could be earlier if we pollute with spy points.
Kirby will have 100 GPPs. It wants to get the National Epic, then as many specialist buildings as possible and grow, so I'd guess it'll be t135 before it starts pumping GPPs again, but with a library, Theater and SA it'll produce 15*2=30 GPPs per turn, so it can sandbag the 300 GPP GP and race to the 400 GPP one in four turns. So I'd guess our next GA will be about t150.
Marmalade and Englebert should just run specialists when they want to stagnate, they'll be useful in the next GA. I changed Englebert back to be running the scientists - it's only growing onto coast otherwise and I think we might want the scientist for an Education bulb to get us to Economics. Let me know if you want me to change this back.
Thinking about attack plans, this one would let us hit his capital on the second turn of a war. If we have Engineering and road the two indicated tiles.
This is probably the best we can do without Engineering. One-movers can keep up with the stack going via Dig Up if the trees are roaded too.
Then while I was thinking about attack plans I got paranoid about Hello Joe's pigs tile. From there Cornelius can be burnt by two HAs and Flossie by three. Everything local had moved except the zone defense Axe, so I thought the best plan was to scout the tile with the Axe... And it turns out my paranoia was paranoia
. Sorry! A spear in Cornelius wouldn't go amiss though.
Finally I tested the colour of the borders north of Pindicator and I'm fairly sure its WilliamLP's Mongolia who we've already met, so no need to break our necks to make contact.
Workers
I noticed we've only got 16 workers for our 19 cities. Given how much FIN coast we have to work that's not so bad, and FT has got all the new cities up and running nice and quickly, but if Gertie needs to stagnate I think a few more workers are the way to go.
With Guilds coming soon we could start laying down a few workshops. The Sacrificial Altar actually makes this a difficult decision - nerfed RTR 1-pop whipping is going to be great for us, probably better than +1 hammer Caste workshops would be and much more flexible, so I see us staying in slavery until the 2-man golden age (where I think we'll switch to Merc/Caste to generate more GP points, getting us to Free Market by the end). After that I'd guess we'll be in Caste System for the rest of the game, switching to State Property in the 3-man golden age. So we don't really need a lot more right now.
GP points
At the end of the GA Cornelius will have about 156 GPPs, if it continues making 6 GPPs we'll have the GM t145. It could be earlier if we pollute with spy points.
Kirby will have 100 GPPs. It wants to get the National Epic, then as many specialist buildings as possible and grow, so I'd guess it'll be t135 before it starts pumping GPPs again, but with a library, Theater and SA it'll produce 15*2=30 GPPs per turn, so it can sandbag the 300 GPP GP and race to the 400 GPP one in four turns. So I'd guess our next GA will be about t150.
Marmalade and Englebert should just run specialists when they want to stagnate, they'll be useful in the next GA. I changed Englebert back to be running the scientists - it's only growing onto coast otherwise and I think we might want the scientist for an Education bulb to get us to Economics. Let me know if you want me to change this back.
Thinking about attack plans, this one would let us hit his capital on the second turn of a war. If we have Engineering and road the two indicated tiles.
This is probably the best we can do without Engineering. One-movers can keep up with the stack going via Dig Up if the trees are roaded too.
Then while I was thinking about attack plans I got paranoid about Hello Joe's pigs tile. From there Cornelius can be burnt by two HAs and Flossie by three. Everything local had moved except the zone defense Axe, so I thought the best plan was to scout the tile with the Axe... And it turns out my paranoia was paranoia
. Sorry! A spear in Cornelius wouldn't go amiss though.Finally I tested the colour of the borders north of Pindicator and I'm fairly sure its WilliamLP's Mongolia who we've already met, so no need to break our necks to make contact.
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
In progress: Rimworld