[spoilers] Infinite Happiness, Commodore the Suryturk

[Ruff_Hi]

I've often thought that we should include a mod that credits the hammers from a forest that you settle on to the new city.

[spacetyrantxenu]

I've often thought that we should include a mod that credits the hammers from a forest that you settle on to the new city.

Even if you only got half the hammers or something it would still be a nice feature. It does get a bit tedious having to send workers out ahead of time to chop a forest where I'm planning to settle a city. And just losing the forest as the cost of placing a city exactly where you want it isn't really a fun or interesting decision, it's just annoying instead.

[wetbandit]

That picture is definitely not boring.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Creative nerf? You've got a better Creative than previous iterations. Love your libraries, use your libraries!

[Commodore]

Creative nerf? You've got a better Creative than previous iterations. Love your libraries, use your libraries!

Yes, yes, that's all well and good for you hippies, but gimmie 2.7.0.4 Creative any day of the week for aggressive in-your-face settles!

[Commodore]

Creative nerf? You've got a better Creative than previous iterations. Love your libraries, use your libraries!

Yes, yes, that's all well and good for you hippies, but gimmie 2.7.0.4 Creative any day of the week for aggressive in-your-face settles!

...or even assertive no-nonsense in-the-outer-edge-of-your-personal-space-bubble settles. Math makes this place amaaaazing!

Granaries all over; painful and annoying to build without Protective, but given ivory/fur/gem all settled for already, wanna whip a ton.

[Commodore]

We've got a "too many nice things" problem here in lovely Saradash. El cheapo library? Want it. Axes and spears? Will need them. Cheap workers? Yeah. But alas it is the only place a settler for horses can be gotten out at anything like a reasonable pace. So here we are; growing to six in the next two turns, receiving chop, double-whipping. Want to work pretty riverside cottages too, but...

At max potential this will be about at .72 on the Ottawa Scale.

There is still no sign of hooked copper or horse over in Russia but REM is now on his fourth city already, most impressive. Unfortunately, a lot of my micro over the next few turns is going to be "move onto forest, road". This settling plan, specifically prioritizing the Carn Sul site over the riverside wet corn in the near west, is painfully inefficient and will hurt the snowball, probably puts the Pyramids out of the picture entirely as well. Still, I really think that if I settle Carn Sul sixth instead of next it'll be completely gone and with it any secure shot at horses. That's not acceptable at all. So here I am.

Amondon is one ballin city, ain't it?

[Commodore]

Here's the known world thus far; the black hole in the middle may well contain a civ; DZ came from *somewhere*.

Pretty sure this is all one single continent. That's super disappointing; exploring islands is my favorite thing to do ever.

[Commodore]

The Yue Communiques

Some of the earliest known letters uncovered by archeologists are the Yue Communiques; papyrus letters sent by the ancient Satyr Caste fur trader Baram Yue to his wife, who apparently ran his business at home in Bendai while he traveled. The dust-dry letters were badly damaged when the couple's hidden tomb was breached by thieves, but the fragments that remain reveal a brusque, unsentimental man and a fascinating glimpse at his world, one surprisingly contemporary for being four thousands years in the past.

...petitioned Prince Doh for a second bronze axe; he seeks to keep most of the new production to outfit his company. Nothing will come of it but the folly of princes must be entertained and accepted. Tetrehahn will send its copper north I judge before the prince gets his own. He buys our finest coats again however and...

When a modern reader thinks of fur trading, they think more typically of the famous soft pelts of beaver, stoat, or bouffant woodchuck. But in the ancient times of Baram Yue, the most prized furs were acquired from hunters of elusive mountain vicuna. Now these gracile little animals are nearly extinct, but long ago they ran in vast herds all around the mountains near the primitive early city of Amondon.

...pay them in bacon, stupid Centaur Caste bumpkins. When the prince completes his road and sets the camps up they will find good solid Fauns can skin just as well...keep control of the trade even then. Must petition the council of princes if those aging bulls can be made to see good sense...

Although the Beastmen Nation had not yet formalized the caste system, moderns can recognize the divisions already present in the society of Baram Yue. Faun Caste were farmers and herdsmen, Satyr Caste were tradesmen and merchants, Centaur Caste were scouts, hunters, and at times lawmen, and Minotaur Caste were warriors and leaders, with caste-less slaves filling in all of the society's cracks and the shadowy Manticore still mostly just a secretive cult. Research and learning were mostly conducted by Satyrs like Baram; they were at the forefront of the earliest studies of formalized Mathematics. In the large and tumultuous central city of Saradash, the first library in the world was slowly being gathered.

My wife, I will be home soon.
The riots are over; the High Prince had his warriors suppress them. There are still grumbles, and I expect many will be enslaved and sent out for his newest settlement scheme.
I think it will be best to spend some time at home. Bendai is across the river from this unrest, but I think the cots and farms in the east will be depopulated shortly. We must look to our safety first, we have enough to live upon for quite some time.
Look to my coming upon the next barge upstream.

[Rowain]

It is always a pleasure to read your stories