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[Old Harry]

Ah, forget the capital shrine, it'll found in Hydra's second city. Still useful but perhaps its best for HAK to get it in his capital?

[Nakor]

If we get Hindu, let's found it in HAK's city.

Don't trade warriors with Commodore. Just wait untill we get a few chariots, we really need those.

I would put 1 chop into the Settler and the other in the Granary. That will speed up the growth for Courcelette an we can sooner whip a Worket out of there.

I would like our workers to road the Cows and Gems near VR to hook up the gems. Then cottage those 2 Riverside tiles south.

Courcelette can work a mine on the forested hill but might need a farm or two to get a better food surplus. And a Granary, as mentioned above.

I think we should try and settle the good sites north first (and the copper to the south for a better defense). Then we can backfill to the south.

HAK should start expanding as well, and pretty fast. We need to get that Gold/Pigs site settled and another good production site.

[HitAnyKey]

Unless I'm mistaken, I need to wait for THH to end his turn before I can end mine, right? So I'm going to log out now without ending my turn. THH, send me a Gchat when you are logging in to play yours so I can end my turn right after you end yours.


Not only that, but is THH going to need to lower his research by a bit to make sure he doesn't get the tech? The tech is currently at 153/175. At current setting his capital will put out 16.2 beakers and his other city will put out 4.5 beakers. With just those numbers that will put the tech at 173.7/175. But isn't there also some indirect beakers that go into techs, or am I wrong about that? I never know how to exactly calculate the research stuff.

I just logged into his civ to see it easier. At 90% which is what he's at right now, he'll get 20 beakers (after rounding) bringing the tech to 173/175. If he drops to 80% he'll get 18 beakers, 70% is 16 beakers. So we just need someone who can calculate this to confirm what percentage he needs to be at so that he does not get the tech when he ends his turn, but brings it close enough that my beaker output will get it.

[HitAnyKey]

On a side note, RMOG just got Buddhism this turn.

[BaII]

Pretty sure u can end ur turn before THH ends this turn. I see no reason y u can't.

[HitAnyKey]

Pretty sure u can end ur turn before THH ends this turn. I see no reason y u can't.

How so? If I end my turn, I don't have enough beakers coming out to get the tech. My 13 beakers only brings it to 166/175. Then when THH ends his turn, that would get the tech and the religion would get founded in his city. Or is there some sort of hidden 9 beakers worth that would also get added to mine for it to reach 175?

[BaII]

sry about that, when I saw that POLY only required 1 more turn, I assumed that THH's beakers would also apply to u as well when u would end ur turn. but apparently not

[TheHumanHydra]

HAK played his turn but didn't end it, then I played and ended mine, then ended HAK's.



Nakor, I'm not sure the workers should road the gems right away. Verrieres Ridge can already gain +1 happiness from MP if we decide to grow it after the settler, so it shouldn't need them for a while. I think the workers should either keep chopping, pasture the horses, or maybe make a cottage if we do plan to grow Verrieres Ridge again.

After considering what everyone had said, I decided to put both chops into Courcelette; its granary will complete the turn it grows, both with exact yields:



(Verrieres Ridge is as in the post-turn screenshot in my last post.)

Old Harry, I think we should revolt when this next settler is en route and Courcelette is ready to whip its worker. Does that sound good to everyone?

Speaking of said settler, we should really decide where it's going to go:



We could plant aggressively in the west in that horse-sheep-corn-rice region (it's not actually that far from the capital), or in that corn-copper-lake-river spot HAK marked out southwest of Courcelette, or somewhere else. What do you guys think?

Now for the news you were all waiting for:

As you can see in the Courcelette screenshot, I bumped my science down to 70% so Polytheism wouldn't complete on my turn (this will allow for two turns of 100% research presently). I ended my turn: Polytheism stood at 173/175 beakers. I logged in and ended HAK's turn:



(Oh, the suspense!)

And:



What the heck?

You read that right; there's nothing we could have done about it anyway.

(Now, I actually prefer Courcelette as the shrine-site, but I didn't want to interject that into the consensus when it was time to play the turn anyway).

Well, I guess you learn something new every day. Now it's time to pick our next tech:



Options: Great Lighthouse, Oracle, Mathematics, Monarchy ...

[Nakor]

Writing seems like the best option to me, now that we have a Religion.
The Buddists will beat us to Oracle since we lack forests to chop.

[HitAnyKey]

I like the idea of Writing too. I'd like to get us on the path for the Great Library.
We got our Stonehenge, we got our religion...time for the next longterm goal. As I assume once they get Oracle for Metal Casting, they're gonna grab the Pyramids.