T142 GA T7
No pretty pictures, just graphs after running the EP slider for this turn.
So...looks like the tables have turned on Gav for Population. I'm really starting to look like the tall poppy, 50 points over Gav and 160 points over OT4E (but he has a prolonged GA to build up his tech and create a window to murder superjm). And OH is murdering his own population which means our numbers are going to start looking large than the really are in the world pop %age.
Score doesn't mean too much, except that Lewwyn has always been low on score. The only important player missing is Cairo now.
The CY graph shows quite a few problems for different players. Lewwyn had no food (his island is junk). superjm made the mistake I said he might, he has over used Rep scientists to tech but stagnated his growth and now he is going to lack the population base for the next phase of the game. OH seemed to stop his horizontal expansion for some point (read: SoZ, Parth, GL) and is gambling on those wonders to give him a window into Astro and whipped CKN to murder someone. OT4E got into a cramped position and didn't spread to islands which has limited his CY growth. Gav has hit a plateau, and I reckon he is battling costs of early horizontal expansion via murdering Elkad, and has also hit a happy cap in his older cities, like I did around T80 (look at around the 1250BC mark for my plateau where I hit horizontal and vertical growth limits at the same time).
Now OT4E is building up to murder someone, but might need to get the last bits of tech in place (ie tech Guilds and knights). OH is about to pull the trigger. Gav needs to react to those players with his own opportunistic war dec, or focus on horizontal expansion and thee delayed rewards for that. superjm has to both grow his pop base, but also has to defend against OT4E (and potentially myself).
The MFG is pitiful, but I did make a mistake last turn: the second best MFG is none GA, it's Gav, which means everyone else sucks even worse. So I need to rush to get my cities up and producing military to start rolling over people. Remember that I'm expecting to hit over 600MFG in none GA production once these cities are grown (and the granaries are almost all down, all food resources hooked in the slowest cities, all others are one there way to the required sizes).
The main problem for everyone else is there are going to need to whip everything, and it's self defeating, their expansion and then consolidation will definitely take longer than I need to start interfering with any city captures near me, ie, I can react to a war dec on superjm at probably any time, and I will still outproduce OT4E 2:1.
GNP is always weird. Ultimately, I don't care too much about this: All that really matters are the tech thresholds: Optics, Astro, Guilds, Engineering. OT4E should be getting Guilds in the next 2-3 turns IMO. Superjm is still putting too much emphasis on GNP and is about to pay for it. Gav is just middle of the road and looks to be taking just what he needs and will then follow where others go, he is reacting. Lewwyn is broke. OH has Optics and is about to get Monarchy (I think he got it eot142, same as me). I'll have to get Paper.
Lewwyn is broke in more ways than one. superjm is about to get rolled, Gav acts as a counterbalance though so OT4E may not be able to push that hard into superjm which helps me even more, every turn of delay puts me even closer to Optics, Guilds and 560MFG war machine.
Boring.
More boring.
That top power is likely going to be OH very, very, soon.
No pretty pictures, just graphs after running the EP slider for this turn.
So...looks like the tables have turned on Gav for Population. I'm really starting to look like the tall poppy, 50 points over Gav and 160 points over OT4E (but he has a prolonged GA to build up his tech and create a window to murder superjm). And OH is murdering his own population which means our numbers are going to start looking large than the really are in the world pop %age.
Score doesn't mean too much, except that Lewwyn has always been low on score. The only important player missing is Cairo now.
The CY graph shows quite a few problems for different players. Lewwyn had no food (his island is junk). superjm made the mistake I said he might, he has over used Rep scientists to tech but stagnated his growth and now he is going to lack the population base for the next phase of the game. OH seemed to stop his horizontal expansion for some point (read: SoZ, Parth, GL) and is gambling on those wonders to give him a window into Astro and whipped CKN to murder someone. OT4E got into a cramped position and didn't spread to islands which has limited his CY growth. Gav has hit a plateau, and I reckon he is battling costs of early horizontal expansion via murdering Elkad, and has also hit a happy cap in his older cities, like I did around T80 (look at around the 1250BC mark for my plateau where I hit horizontal and vertical growth limits at the same time).
Now OT4E is building up to murder someone, but might need to get the last bits of tech in place (ie tech Guilds and knights). OH is about to pull the trigger. Gav needs to react to those players with his own opportunistic war dec, or focus on horizontal expansion and thee delayed rewards for that. superjm has to both grow his pop base, but also has to defend against OT4E (and potentially myself).
The MFG is pitiful, but I did make a mistake last turn: the second best MFG is none GA, it's Gav, which means everyone else sucks even worse. So I need to rush to get my cities up and producing military to start rolling over people. Remember that I'm expecting to hit over 600MFG in none GA production once these cities are grown (and the granaries are almost all down, all food resources hooked in the slowest cities, all others are one there way to the required sizes).
The main problem for everyone else is there are going to need to whip everything, and it's self defeating, their expansion and then consolidation will definitely take longer than I need to start interfering with any city captures near me, ie, I can react to a war dec on superjm at probably any time, and I will still outproduce OT4E 2:1.
GNP is always weird. Ultimately, I don't care too much about this: All that really matters are the tech thresholds: Optics, Astro, Guilds, Engineering. OT4E should be getting Guilds in the next 2-3 turns IMO. Superjm is still putting too much emphasis on GNP and is about to pay for it. Gav is just middle of the road and looks to be taking just what he needs and will then follow where others go, he is reacting. Lewwyn is broke. OH has Optics and is about to get Monarchy (I think he got it eot142, same as me). I'll have to get Paper.
Lewwyn is broke in more ways than one. superjm is about to get rolled, Gav acts as a counterbalance though so OT4E may not be able to push that hard into superjm which helps me even more, every turn of delay puts me even closer to Optics, Guilds and 560MFG war machine.
Boring.
More boring.
That top power is likely going to be OH very, very, soon.