[SPOILERS]Acrid Pinot and other Pindicator anagrams

[NobleHelium]

Awesome!

[pindicator]

I'm starting to wonder how many people read this thread...

Turn 100




That's us

[NobleHelium]

That wasn't much of an extravaganza.

[Commodore]

Read this bi-daily, which seems like faster than the turn pace.

[pindicator]

Read this bi-daily, which seems like faster than the turn pace.

Yay, that's one!
And if you're our audience then we obviously need to bitch about the map more in thread

[pindicator]

Turns 101 - 103

Catching up to where we're at now...

I've noticed a few people have anagram-ed their name in their forum title. So we're stealing now, first from waterbat:



Turn 101 we lined up the settler to settle A Wet Brat, and then finished a road to it's NE so a missionary could start in it right away. To the city's south, Sly Back Tire will build a work boat after it finishes our first ziggurat, and that work boat will reach the fish right as borders pop.

We're also starting a temple in RUO for a priest specialist. But it won't complete for a while yet, as you'll see.

In the southeast we discovered another lush island by Ichabod.



Pretty sure Ichabod will beat us to that one, as we have a few other spots we need to nail down first.
Our next settler is going to take the clam / gold location north of the capital. Finally. Then after that either the dye/banana spot to the south in the jungle, or we'll try to grab another spot in the far west.

More Ichabod, now zooming ahead to turn 103:



Now, you may ask why this picture is significant at all, but the reason it matters is that the forest by Hobbes is not being chopped. Hobbes is currently building The Colossus. We're 90% sure on that; it's been adding 13h to it's total every turn (although on t102 it added 16 as it grew a population). We've been thinking about Colossus for about 10 turns ourselves, and come turn 100 it was time to decide if we could actually steal it out from Ichabod. Noble's been keeping track of hammers in Ichabod's cities (he also clued me in to Ichabod attempting to build MoM before we finishied it), and right now Hobbes is at 77h making 16hpt. If he keeps up at that rate he'll build the city in 11 turns. More likely he'll chop those nearby forests into it. He could have gotten it as early as turn 104 if he had his workers on location to do the chopping. But this picture shows us that he doesn't.

This is important because NHL is going to finish Colossus on our turn 105:



Right now NHL as 117/250 into Colossus. After turn 104 it will be at 144/250. That will let us 3-pop whip the wonder to completion on turn 105. Noble gets all credit here; it was his idea. And while this is the last time I want to whip NHL for a long while, I like the plan because it let's us abort at the last minute without whipping away population needlessly. Plus giving up 3 population will be worth it for the wonder.

Now, beating Ichabod to these wonders is going to have a consequence, and I fear that consequence is losing the race to Music. We teched Aesthetics t101 and Literature t102. This turn we started saving up gold for a potential Music run. But Ichabod got about 180 fail-gold from when we built MoM and since he's only about -40gpt at 100% there are a lot of turns ahead of him at top speed. We still need to build up gold - I think we can get Music in 5 turns if we figure it right, but that would be a stretch.

It would help if this turns out to be a Scientist:



I'd also take an Engineer. Pyramids would be awesome.

[Merovech]

I'm occasionally reading.

[NobleHelium]

Very encouraging.

[NobleHelium]

By the way I was wrong about Ichabod not working that forest. The shack was on the northern coast and I missed it before.

[pindicator]

I'm occasionally reading.

Yay for Hem Cover!!!!!
The best city in the empire