RBP3 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[novice]

Incredibly strange opening moves by Morgan. He had the right idea of settling on silver (I agree with the above analysis), but then for no apparent reason moved his settler in the opposite direction!

I guess he's going with Mukha's option 4:

So we have lots of options, some better than others:

1. Settle in place.

2. Settle on silver

3. Settle on plains hill SE , 2SE or NE

Options quickly become sub-optimal after this but I'll list them anyway for completeness:

4. Don't settle in place. In fact don't settle at all. Settlers make great scouts.

5. Ally with someone with optics. Get them to gift us a caravel which should turn into a Carrack. Settle poles/desert island. We would be safe until astronomy. Only problem I see with this is we would only have a single warrior to offer in trade.

6. Gift/delete the settler.


I'm leaning towards option 3. But our first priority is to name our units.

If it fits Gaspar Whose Laugh Stinks of Killing for the warrior.

Then maybe move him SE or SW? Don't want to explore to the north much because it looks like there's a desert hill 3 N of starting spot.

[banshee]

So far only Ruff (Meditation) and Krill (delayed Polytheism) seem to chase a religion, right? Or am I missing something here? It's really hard to follow all those threads

[novice]

I haven't noticed anyone else going for a religion but I'm not on top of every thread either.

EDIT: Exploit hasn't started a thread yet.

[banshee]

[...]EDIT: Exploit hasn't started a thread yet.

Don't wanna go through the whole IT thread - what's up with him? According to CivStats he has been playing his turns so far. Unless there are technical problems I think every player should have his own thread, not only to satisfy those greedy lurkers but also for comparing purposes after the game.

[McClure]

And ... we have our first team to guess the mapscript, only five turns into the game.

Honors to Kyan/Twinkletoes/Whosit for discovering Team Battleground/extra green + modified!

[banshee]

Yes, they were pretty fast indeed! Some other team is playing with the idea of an oasis map though...

Well, seems as if Ruff is about to make first contact. Looking at the direction he moved his scout at the first turn, I think he might have found the Indians

[SoV]

Hello everyone,

Hmm, how is this supposed to happen?

Oh,

My name is SoV and I am a lurker.



No really, I am THE lurker. I have been lurking those forums almost daily since the day PBEM1 started. And I read EVERY-SINGLE-THREAD across all the games being played here. I'm sure I'm as spoiled as is humanly possible hahaha.

My first post went to Mukha's and Danstki's thread. Mukha is the reason I delurked actually. The number of lurkers in this game is relatively small (everyone is playing :P) so I figured I'd post some words of encouragement there because I've really enjoyed his reporting style.

Anyway, I just wanted to say hi to all of you. Now that I have officially de-lurked, I'll be looking forward to discussing things with all of you here

[novice]

My name is SoV and I am a lurker.

(chorus)HI, SOV!!(/chorus)

[banshee]

Phew, Krill being right at the doorstep of Korea who started with worker first, this is getting interesting

[novice]

Well, with this many players on such a cramped map, someone doing a Mortius would not be unexpected.