Astronaut without sin confounds press, invites trio to control civilization

[novice]

For extremely annoying but not very interesting reasons I played t85 in several rushes on a constantly overheating computer. Hope I didn't mess up completely. I didn't want the save to get delayed again.

Report tomorrow.

[novice]

I suppose the gist of it is that Mackoti offered us peace for 5gpt (him paying), which we declined. He also adopted Bureacracy and Slavery. Score!

[novice]

OK, so a full report. Mackoti adopted Slavery:



He's also got Machinery and Archery, so he should have no excuse for losing cities. Although he will have to whip them.



Btw, people are starting to pick up Archery. Maybe we should, too, to have something cheap that can sometimes be produced in 1 turn without slavery.

Just in case Mackoti gets negligent, I moved our Galleon from Callisto into Ariel and loaded it with three units. Our galley pillaged the crabs and is loaded with an axe. We can hit two cities with four units next turn, one of them is defended by a Phalanx this turn, the other is unknown.

Next turn we'll have a galleon in Luna that can move onto the fish outside Argos (with an axe on board?). The galley can move onto the southern fish, and the galleon in Ariel can do either, depending on what the other boats spot (probably unload all units in Ariel before leaving port).

City builds:


City by city:

Some rushed decisions there. I guess Titania should either have worked a coast or Triton's plains hill instead of the engineer. And Tethys could have borrowed a farm from Rhea instead of Callisto (although callisto did exchange 1f1c for 2h by working the plains farm).

Demographics after ending turn:


Finally, an update on the land that deserves no update:

We've found the eastern edge, a grassland tile down south, and we've found a single spot that grabs two food resources. [Err.. no it doesn't. I've marked it with a "City" sign, but we're not the Kuriotates.]

I guess the most positive thing we'll achieve here at the moment is farming our combat one War Chariot up to 10XP on those barb cities. The WC should fight at 5.5 vs 3 strength (warriors get +25% from city defense and +25% fortification), which is just bad enough to gain 2XP from battles.

[spacemanmf]

There's so nearly proper war - exciting stuff.

Some of those screenshots are side by side which make the post a bit wide, although I guess it's in the spoiler so it's ok.

[novice]

There's so nearly proper war - exciting stuff.

Some of those screenshots are side by side which make the post a bit wide, although I guess it's in the spoiler so it's ok.

Who cares about t85 anyway, that's so yesterday's news. Playing t86 now.

[SevenSpirits]

Think he'll try to defend with caravels?

I'm following with interest via phone internet.

[novice]

Think he'll try to defend with caravels?

I'm following with interest via phone internet.

Quite possible, he got Optics this turn.

[SevenSpirits]

Could it have been a bulb? If so it probably was and hell be able to whip his caravel builds next turn already.

[novice]

Could it have been a bulb? If so it probably was and hell be able to whip his caravel builds next turn already.

There are macemen and crossbowmen in his cities this turn, so I guess that means he bulbed Machinery and researched Optics? Except he doesn't have Aesthetics so I'm not sure how he could bulb Machinery.

Our workers are getting started on our canal fort - it will be ready just in time for our newly whipped Galleons in Triton and Umbriel to pass through.

Demographics after changing civics and ending turn:

[SevenSpirits]

He could get maces same as us from phalanx builds.

xbows: maybe from scratch or from overflow in a GA?
does he gave feudalism and what ddo archers become in the queue?