Astronaut without sin confounds press, invites trio to control civilization

[spacemanmf]

Meanwhile, our first save is in but I'm at work (so can't play it)...

Heh, or not. I had a weird feeling something was up but didn't want to mark the email read so left it.

[SevenSpirits]

You've already determined it doesn't change the tech or unit time correct?

I didn't follow PBEM19, but I find it hard to believe 1H or 2C can make a "huge" difference .

Darrell

In 19 it got us our second tech (AH) a turn sooner which basically made a 1t difference to our capital, because it grew to an important size a turn faster, and thus produced our first settler, some workers, and stonehenge each a turn earlier. I think one turn is a huge difference, yes.

In this game it's probably not as big a deal. But it still might get us e.g. our third or fourth tech a turn sooner, or a workboat a turn sooner from overflow, or maybe it lets us build a 3t worker with 13h/turn instead of a 4t worker and thus get in an extra turn of growth, and this is worth considering IMO.

you find (approximately) 4 culture = 2 gold/beakers = 4/3 hammers = 1 food.

Something's wrong with this, 2h != 1g.

[spacemanmf]

Something's wrong with this, 2h != 1g.

I don't know what != means but darrell's equation is saying that 2g = 1.33h, or 3g = 2h.

[SevenSpirits]

Oh, four thirds, silly me. Yeah that looks more familiar.

[novice]

Got it.

[novice]

OK, so planning is essential, but plans are useless:

[SevenSpirits]

Hm. Pretty sure that gold was a desert hill earlier.

I think we want to hold this a while and try out a few openings.

[novice]

Hm. Pretty sure that gold was a desert hill earlier.

I think we want to hold this a while and try out a few openings.

Yeah. Settling the coast gives us a faster worker due to the plains hill and deer,
but then we can't settle where the warrior is, unless we research a religion. If we settle the warrior spot first though, we get all the resources except the fish (and we can skip fishing). Of course, with that capital worker->settler doesn't seem like the ideal build.

I'm glad we have agri/wheel so lots of options.

[Commodore]

I will note there was always gold in them there hills, desert or no.

[SevenSpirits]

I will note there was always gold in them there hills, desert or no.

I know.

In fact I thought there might be gold in the desert hill, and I thought you might change it to a plains hill when you said you wanted to change the other desert to a plains. :neenernee

So, map wrap and dimensions:



We have vertical wrap, and since 33 moves was the highest I could get with the already-moved warrior, the height is 64.

I also moved the scout NW then NE. There's nothing of interest revealed though we have many rivers visible.



Note that sichabod shockingly did not settle t0.