[SPOILERS] Catherine of China

[novice]

I guess Krill just put one supply between each civ so that no matter which way you went, you could get copper. Unless you escort your settler with a scout.

Zing! Reposted in lurker thread for emphasis.

[plako]

Thanks for that! And lol at WK having the equivalent of -6 You declared war on us!

Yeah. That is pretty close to reality I guess.

We've new contact. Our far away scout found Mackoti/Ioan scout.

[antisocialmunky]

Complement his scout's dress and move on I guess.

[plako]

Complement his scout's dress and move on I guess.

Pretty in pink.

Really crowded Peninsula. Scouts/warriors of 5 nations here:


We're out of things to build. I can't build more units so that they don't bankrupt us and Barracks are only available building.



Choke points everywhere. I'll probably scout areas close by before exploring these.



WK has settling party 1N to our warrior. Heading to take the deers and silver.

[plako]

I've had dome diplo with Mackoti. I sent Personal message containing my email and he sent me this response:

I see everithing is going great for you, My scout is far awy too(you see i like emoticons).What you say about a long NAP until 1 AD lets say?

NAP seems useless. It might still be good idea though to keep diplo channels open and hopefully be in bit better position in the future NAP discussions, if we can press our current advantage to run away civ. I sent him this:

I'm glad you go straight to business. That is how I like it too.

In principle I'm alright with the NAP, although I see it quite unnescessary. Based on what I've heard from others, we're as far from each other as possible in this map. It is quite unlikely that our intrests will collide in the near future. Just let me know, if you want to sign it.

I also had a short chat with Luddite. He really would like to know if SleepingMoogle is trying to land Oracle. I couldn't help him since there has been no comunication between us for quite a while.

I don't remember, if I've already mentioned this, but I was totally wrong about where the Buddhism landed. Apparently it was Adlain not Lord Parkin or SleepingMoogle. I don't know what went wrong. Maybe I looked score raises from wrong turn.

I've also toyed up with the Idea of somehow getting the Pyramids. Our current cities seems pretty ideal for switching between specialists and hammers debending on our needs. The obvivous problem is the huge price without stone. We've the production capabilities to build, but still 550 hammers is a lot. Getting Engineer somehow would be ideal, but I doubt we get a chance for it, because I suspect that most of our early Great Persons will be Scientists.

[antisocialmunky]

The alternative is to expand even more rather than getting the Pyramids. Though, I suppose we could try it.

If we are out of stuff to build, we might as well throw hammers at wonders so we get gold overflow. The only places that we can seriously do a wonder race are our capitol and Tyvm. Nowhere else has enough trees. Might even be able to land the Great Wall because 200% GG emergence is pretty funny if we try to get dog piled.

[plako]

The alternative is to expand even more rather than getting the Pyramids. Though, I suppose we could try it.

If we are out of stuff to build, we might as well throw hammers at wonders so we get gold overflow. The only places that we can seriously do a wonder race are our capitol and Tyvm. Nowhere else has enough trees. Might even be able to land the Great Wall because 200% GG emergence is pretty funny if we try to get dog piled.

This is preliminary at this point, but something to think about.

Building a wonder/wonders in Tyvm has added benefit of pushing cultural borders so in every case we might want to try some non-priority wonder there or Pyramids

[antisocialmunky]

So I guess the question is: How many hammers can we get by chopping all 10 forests while doing whips antics and should we get math before then?

Those trees have to go at some point too.

[plako]

Nothing too surprising on our cities. Except our workers (7 of them) kill our economy . Things will get soon better though after we get couple of pop raises and gold online.



North looks pretty good:


Circumnavigation is so close. Apparently there isn't land connection where I thought there would:

[Cyneheard]

At least you're eligible for circumnav there even without having a full land connection.

7 workers is impressive for non-Exp this early, especially since you just fought a war and kicked WarlordDr's mismanagement back to the Early Stone Age.

And Pottery shouldn't be too far away; 4t at most?