I was reading Pb8 lately and I have got all fire up! I love the rankings over there so why not make a ranking about a game that has already started!
Ninja Edit this is for turn 85.
1 Suttree
If you have been reading this thread you know what I think. This guy is winning. Suttree has been playing a great game. I have been following his moves as best as I can trough civstats. He has 7-8 cities. I'm pretty sure he has been top CY all game. He is very close of Sisu on score despite not building any wonder. This means that all his score comes for land, pop and techs.
He has get a great scientist not long ago and he use it to bulb something, my best guess Maths could be Alphabet but that would be to silly and I don't think he would do that. I hope that the maths bulb means that he is going for an early Construction and an early war that would slow him down hopefully. If suttree continues playing as now he has a very strong chance of winning this.
2 Sisu
Sisu build the oracle, my best guess is that he took MC though he hasn't build the Colossus yet which is weird. He has the top score. he is FIN so he is in par or slightly ahead of Surttree in beakers. The mayor problem with Sisu is that he hasn't been whipping enough he probably has 5-6 cities. So even though he might have a MFG lead for a while his lack of expansion will make him fall behind eventually. Even if he wants to stay small and tech away other people won't let him.
3 Xenu going Boldy
The only team I have met so far. The builder of Stonehenge and The Pyramids and strong combination. They have only 5 cities probably because of the wonders. The problem with then is that they seems to lack food specials. Which mean that they won't be able to use Representation at his fullest. There are also lacking in expansion, and using specialist will hamper his ability to whip efficiently. In the other hand everybody knows how powerful Representation is so they could be in a strong position in the near future. I'm keeping a close eye in whatever they do from now. Something that worry me is that Xenu hasn't log into the game for a long time. This is bad since I was counting in Xenu to act irrational and attack someone that is not me.
4 Retep
This guy suck only in this place because he got the GLH.
5 Molach
Molach as the only CRE leader has a lot of points in score for land. He has Praets and he should be planing on using then shortly otherwise they would go waste it. I guess he could use then defensively to avoid other attacking him but he looks like an aggressive guy so I don't think this is likely. If he not use his praets soon, before people start building cats then he would start falling behind eventually.
6 Oxymindyzone
This guy just got COL and land Confu pretty strong for a SPI leader. I believe he went the Priesthood line otherwise the Maths-Currency will be to insane and he would have more score. They were playing okay until Oxy start having problems I can't really said much about then since I haven't paying to much attention. Though early Caste combined with Phi could lead to very interesting bulbs so I keep an eye on then from now.
7 WillianLP that is not Lord Parking
To be honest no idea here. He got Hinduism and thats pretty much all I know so kudos to you WillianLP for having me in the black.
8 WetKurumi
This is one of the teams that have been at war. They took a city from Azza earlier got peace and a bunch of turn later Azza attack then and lost. They seems to be in a cold war with Azza for a good part of the game which explain with I put then in this place. I think they have invest to much on units and not enough in expansion and infra. They probably research military techs like archery, IW and probably HBR. This has put then behind and if they continue the cold war with Azza their future looks pretty bad.
9 Azza
Azza lost a city early don't know how but I guess he settle to aggressive or something. Then he build a bunch of units and attack Kurumi and fail agains. His attack was pretty obvious because he was taking the second half of the timer. And I think he lost because despite a GG was born there wasn't any changes on score in civstats, so Azza didn't take any city. His position is pretty bad, at this point his chance of winning are slim at best especially if he continues fighting Kurumi. I honestly don't get with Azza always seems to get into this things of early wars and stuff, the map makers hate then or something?
10 Kurball
Yes Kurball is last, even worst than Azza. I have not really good things to say about then though. Only 3 things could have happen:
1. I have overlook something somewhere and they have been at war or lose a city or the barbs kill a settler or something unexpected like this.
2. Commodore hates then I give then the worst spot on the map.
3. They are not playing really good.
This also took forever to write
