[Spoilers] GES, Roland & Friends (Mansa of Egypt)

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Updated sandbox save: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25875988/PBEM19%...dSwordSave

Where should I send the warrior next?

[Brian Shanahan]

Looks like the river your capital is on is also flowing into the sea at the southernmost tile we can see. You can see it delta. I'll look at the lie of the land a bit more tomorrow

[Gaspar]

Turn 0:


Revealed jungle gems. Gaspar is a dick. He wants people to war, so he gave us a reason to tech IW early. He probably put copper underneath the jungle grass hill.

:kisskiss:

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Turn 1:

Confirmed the coast, but no seafood. WTF Gaspar? Can't a game admin gets a triple fish site? *Furiously scribbling in secret notebook*

Demos:

[Brian Shanahan]

Ok did a quick and dirty turn 50 test using your save GES.

Slaving is the way to go early on. I managed to get out 4 settlers, 4 workers, 3 granaries (3rd completing EOT) and a library in my little empire.

I've planted 3 cities on the edges of the island and am about to plant a fourth.

I'm also up to t-4 on CoL, by going AH>Mining>BW>Pottery>Writing>Myst>Med>PH>CoL


The land looks like:

Cap is waiting out the 3 turns of unhappy before slotting in a worker for whipping into the Oracle, the others are building Gran>Library, and whipping asap.

Tech:

Save is here, if you want to look.

Next would be to run a test on a Archi map with the other teams included to see if the path is good enough for CoL or if we should go for Oracle.

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Slaving is the way to go early on. I managed to get out 4 settlers, 4 workers, 3 granaries (3rd completing EOT) and a library in my little empire.

I managed to get 4 settlers and 6 workers out of the capital alone (just put the settlers to rest in the capital) or 5 settlers and 5 workers without whipping.

So I am not sold at all that whipping is best yet. I did find some food once the borders expanded, but we don't need to make a decision on slavery or not until around T20 or so, and we should have enough scouting data by then to make decisions on sharing food at the capital.

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Turn 2:

Piggies!

Demos:

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Updated sandbox save: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25875988/PBEM19%...dSwordSave

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Played two more turns. Only revealed some coastal tiles, and what looks like a possible land connection. No more resources revealed. I'll post pictures tonight.

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Turn 5:

As you might've guessed, nothing new:

Demos: