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[Spoilers] Shallow Old Human Tourist Hit the beach!

Micro challenge part. 1  mischief

So here's an attempt to outsource our micro to potential lurkers (or at least internally help us solve one of our remaining questions in the early micro). Namely, where do we exactly settler our wheat-gems city. E or SE of gems? Here is the position where we potentially find ourselves in 10 turns (everything irrelevant is deleted from the pic):




I'll put the rest of the stuff in spoilers as this is otherwise a bit of a wall of text..

What makes the comparison tight:

Southern city spot: E of gems (“A”) vs. SE of gems (“B”)
 
Key things to take into account:
  • A is settled one turn faster. That translates into roughly a benefit of 8 foodhammers in the opening.
  • B has crabs in the first ring. At size 2 that does not truly be an improvement as working improved gems tile is more or less equally strong
  • At size three A could work a riverside grass mine 1/3/1 instead of 4/0/2 crabs
  • Getting the mine up costs 5 worker turns. Building a worker boat costs 4 worker turns (chop) & 10 hammers
  • Value of tiles at size 3 depends on the build:
  • When growing, crabs food is clearly stronger and provides an additional commerce
  • When building a worker, equal foodhammers, but crabs provides an additional commerce
  • When building a settler, mine is in essence a 1/5/1 tile and stronger
  • Settling B leads to a net loss of 2 forests (city tile + potentially a chopped WB)
As a simplification: City A starts 18 foodhammers ahead, but is the ability to work crabs over mine significant enough to prioritize B


What to do in this micro challenge:

  • Put our civ into best possible position by EOT55
  • Techwise you should just finish Wheel, tech Pottery and then collect as much money as possible
  • Capital should just build settlers at the crappy tiles selected.
  • In my quick attempt, gems city had produced a worker, settler, granary and warrior by eot55. Items like that probably should be a part of your consideration too. No need to try to figure out where the settler is going (or what workers are doing if they are done at the gems city)


How to report the outcome:

All values should represent the situation end of turn 55. And provide a eot55 screenshot!
[*]Settlers produced: eotXX
[*]Workers produced: eotXX
[*]Granary: Yes/No
[*]No. of warriors: 
[*]City size:
[*]Food in the box:
[*]Hammers in a build/overflow:
[*]Crabs improved: Yes/No
[*]Other stuff worth nothing:


Here is the sandbox!

PS. I don't expect lurkers to help us out here. This is just a better forum for this post than our gchat


EDIT: I'm somehow struggling with font color..
Finished:
PBEM 45G, PB 13, PB 18, PB 38 & PB 49

Top 3 favorite turns: 
#1, #2, #3
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RE: [Spoilers] Shallow Old Human Tourist Hit the beach! - by Fintourist - March 4th, 2018, 16:03

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