Chairmen NobleHelium and Gaspar Demand Your Presence in the Collective

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Oh right

I forget these kinds of things.

[Ilios]

What would you do with this wretch of a city?

Disband it.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Worker's Nest has been obliberated. 3000 Hive citizens have been put to the death.

Feels good every time (Yang is a jerk).

[regoarrarr]

Love the outrage over people not sticking to their naming schemes (though coming up with ~30 relatively tasteful your mom jokes is getting tough...)

[Gaspar]

Love the outrage over people not sticking to their naming schemes (though coming up with ~30 relatively tasteful your mom jokes is getting tough...)

I must say I'm appalled that you never used Bus Route.

[NobleHelium]

GASPAR get on chat so we can play the turn.

[Gaspar]

GASPAR get on chat so we can play the turn.

For the uninitiated, Noble always uses my name when he's annoyed with me. My name in all caps probably means he's extra annoyed. If only I were moved by such things.

Anyway, this was an extra quiet turn. I won't post anything from the chat log since it was basically a half an hour of arguing about how to build Moai Statues at Factory Drift. :zzz:

Generally our arguments boil down to this: NH insists on efficiency in all ways in all places. This means he never wants to just chop something - he always wants to mine-chop/cottage-chop/etc because it saves a worker turn. He also insists on basically roading any 2-move tile anytime we're on it. Etc, etc. I take a more fluid approach - sometimes you need the improvement more, sometimes the worker turns saved now are more important than the worker turns saved later. Anyway, this basically results in this argument over and over:

Me: why do you want to build this useless road
Him: its about optimization, we might want to fort that tile in 50 turns, for example.
Me: but in 50 turns we'll have lots of bored workers, right now we need every worker turn
Him: LOOK GASPAR
Me: (not listening anymore, off surfing the web/smoking a cigarette/thinking about slashing my wrists)
Him: GASPAR!!!!1
Me: Just do whatever it is that you wanted.

Much like in real life, we found the Indies twice:



Other than that and the argument, it really was a nothing turn. Sorry to disappoint.

[NobleHelium]

We played turn 53.

Interesting happenings this turn, but not really for us. We decided that we're in most need of gold right now to get to Currency, so we made some decisions based upon that - like working the gold in Factory Maze instead of the unimproved fish (we'll switch back when the work boat arrives), and we also decided to use a forest chop into the Pyramids for fail gold.



Why Pyramids fail gold you ask? Why because of this:



So let's see. N7 built Colossus (nice wonder on this map, especially because Astronomy is not that important). They got the expected GE from the forge. And will build Pyramids next turn with it. Will mackoti build it before they can? I doubt it, but we'll see.

And as you can see, we also killed N7's scout. It was under our bowman stack's current location (under the warrior). We killed it to gain 2 exp on a bowman, plus we didn't want them scouting our lands and seeing there's nothing home after we move out.

[Gaspar]

T54 is in. Not going to play yet because there are some decisions to make. But some world news:

• Novice/SevenSpirits (team) landed the Pyramids with their Great Engineer, as expected.
  
• Mackoti got a Great Prophet.
  
• Novice/SevenSpirits (team) declined our offer of peace.
  
• Lewwyn offered peace again AND moved the warrior he had by Novice/SevenSpirits (team) down, conveniently landing 1 NE of our Bowmen stack.
  
• Monotheism was founded in a distant land, probably Lewwyn.
  
• Mackoti settled another city this turn. He's not really trying, for the uninitiated, here are his cities translated from their native Romanian to English:
  
  1. After River
     
  2. Great Port
     
  3. Bronze Horse
     
  4. The Hill
     
  5. Gold Fish
     

[Gaspar]

Here's all that in one easy picture: