April 28th, 2020, 08:47
(This post was last modified: April 28th, 2020, 08:47 by Commodore.)
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So summing up, the RB folks are nicely salted throughout the world, right?
Superjim - Iran?
Donovan Zoi - New Zealand?
Elkad - Central Asia
Naufragar - Poland
Baii - Mexico
Superdeath - Argentina
Nobody seems to be doing especially awful or wonderful yet.
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(April 28th, 2020, 08:47)Commodore Wrote: So summing up, the RB folks are nicely salted throughout the world, right?
Superjim - Iran?
Donovan Zoi - New Zealand?
Elkad - Central Asia
Naufragar - Poland
Baii - Mexico
Superdeath - Argentina
Nobody seems to be doing especially awful or wonderful yet.
I agree with Naufragar, BaII and Superdeath. I'm not totally sure about Donovan, could also be somewhere in Indonesia? Elkad and Superjim are a lot harder pinpoint.
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Tierra del Fuego is kind of nuts. Superdeath's pictures paint an extremely different situation than his words. In this kind of massive field I'd glad take a little light choking in my start.
April 28th, 2020, 18:31
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(April 28th, 2020, 09:04)Charriu Wrote: (April 28th, 2020, 08:47)Commodore Wrote: So summing up, the RB folks are nicely salted throughout the world, right?
Superjim - Iran?
Donovan Zoi - New Zealand?
Elkad - Central Asia
Naufragar - Poland
Baii - Mexico
Superdeath - Argentina
Nobody seems to be doing especially awful or wonderful yet.
I agree with Naufragar, BaII and Superdeath. I'm not totally sure about Donovan, could also be somewhere in Indonesia? Elkad and Superjim are a lot harder pinpoint.
someone saw ice in the south of DZ's islands, hence the consensus is NZ. There's a single civ in Australia on the SW corner, DZ should be able to get a foothold there with some resolve.
Elkad's neighbour to the east (Apenimon) has his capital on the Siberian Pacific coast, though he's not really close.
I also agree that SD could still get into a good position here. There's really no one who's had a good start south of Mexico. the Peruvian Maya player is rather new I think (though doing ok so far), Boudicca in Venezuela has an experienced player but played an awkward start and pinkdotted BaII who doesn't seem to accept it, and the two Brazilians are at each other's throats (after choking SD, Coco/Hammurabi proceeded to burn his other neighbour's 2nd city). I fear SD will go for blind revenge though. to
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It is really ridiculous if that is naufragars only horse.
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my impression is they just balance for copper only.
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(May 2nd, 2020, 18:40)Miguelito Wrote: my impression is they just balance for copper only.
Well, that is not right entirely. There actually is a pattern for Horse-Balance, but its a kinda generell one which does not apply everywhere. Ramk explained it in German in the Civforum-Lurker thread, I will try my best to translate it for you guys:
Rule 0: Horses does not have to be reachable in the antic/classic era for every Player, thus there are less than 52 Horses across the board
Rule 1: Horses are mostly placed in between the Players
Rule 2: Horse are placed nearby Players which are likely to be attack early for their Position (f.e. Elkat, JP, Ziankali, 2metraninja, Australia)
Rule 3: Where you can find horses, it is very unlikely to have Iron around and vice versa.
The Placement of horses in the BFC of Jesper Portus (JP) is more a less a mistake, but since he did not Research AH first, it is ok now.
So, my first post in this Forums, please be kind becos English is by no means my best language and the German auto-correct Feature does not help as well^^
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Welcome to the forum. I understood everything. 
May 6th, 2020, 16:41
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Welcome Civforum lurkers!
Papa Bear helped us a bit earlier, but as an update: Is somebody winning / heading towards a strong position? Who should be winning, ie who were the favorites going into the game?
EDIT: I have lurked a bit here and at your forum, but not closely enough to get a big picture..
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(May 6th, 2020, 16:41)Fintourist Wrote: Welcome Civforum lurkers!
Papa Bear helped us a bit earlier, but as an update: Is somebody winning / heading towards a strong position? Who should be winning, ie who were the favorites going into the game?
EDIT: I have lurked a bit here and at your forum, but not closely enough to get a big picture..
We've had this particular discussion in our lurker thread a short while ago. Two of Civforums best players have difficult positions and thus are not seen as the favourites they would usually be, based on their playing skills (I am referring to Kaffeesatzleser and Jesper Portus, who shared the win in the predecessor game - KSL achieved a cultural victory and JP a spaceship victory in the same turn) at this moment.
Which is why other players are judged to have a better position right now, but it is still too early to tell, which of the players playing a good "Builder's Game" right now will "see" and seize opportunities to expand once everyone has finished settling.
Some of the IMP players have quite a few cities already, but that is not too much of a surprise, of course. How good a player is naufragar, the guy playing the Aztecs? He might have to deal with Ziankali (playing Joao - of course one of the Leaders once expects to come out of the blocks pretty well) sooner rather than later and does not seem to have a good chance in this matchup if you ask me.
Bottom line: it is still comparatively "early days" to name "clear" favourites, which is why I won't do it just yet...
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