RBP7 [SPOILERS] - The Chronicles of Nyania

[Lord Parkin]

Hmm, maybe... guess we'll see. Either way we'll be gaining hammers and gold for nothing, so I'm not too concerned.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Hell, even let the worker build the pasture for you, so it grows to Size 2 sooner. Hell, it's not like they'll be using it for more than a half dozen turns.

[Lord Parkin]

I probably would have left it if it was improving the Sheep, so it'd grow faster. It wasn't pasturing though... it was chopping, which definitely wasn't going to be useful for us.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Oh. Good call. It's not like they'd use the chop for anything useful

[Lord Parkin]

Civil Service will be done next turn, so it'll be time for Bureaucracy. Looking forward to that.

Thought I'd show off a little-seen city. Powerthirst isn't much good beyond size 5-6, but it's an amazing whipping centre as well as a great Settler/Worker pump. Later on it'll be a decent site for specialists. Will be producing a Settler there shortly to claim the Silk resource on the west coast, which would otherwise take too long to claim through culture.



Also will start on a Settler in the capital shortly to fill out the island to the north. Possibly more if it looks like there are other decent island locations after exploring the land we can see to the north-east in a few turns.

Demographics aren't looking too bad, considering we haven't switched to Bureaucracy yet. Though Wealth builds are skewing them a little.

[Lord Parkin]

Civil Service is in. Workers are spreading irrigation to the few unirrigated grains we have around the place.

Switched to Bureaucracy this turn.

...and Free Religion...

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Hopefully that should help a bit with the economy.

Oh, and Twinkletoes' old capital has made it into the top 5.



HitAnyKey built the Hagia Sophia recently, if I didn't already mention that.

[T-hawk]

Thought I'd show off a little-seen city. Powerthirst isn't much good beyond size 5-6, but it's an amazing whipping centre as well as a great Settler/Worker pump.

With a city like that, big food surplus from the first few tiles then just plains, I'll usually simply build and work plains cottages. They're not terrible.

[Lord Parkin]

With a city like that, big food surplus from the first few tiles then just plains, I'll usually simply build and work plains cottages. They're not terrible.

Fair point... and that will happen a bit later on. For the moment though, keeping it small increases the whipping efficiency, which is nice for getting all the key buildings up earlier as well as getting out Settlers and Workers quicker.

Basically my gut feeling is that sacrificing growth in that particular city right at the moment helps out the empire as a whole more than growing it would. But eventually, as with all cities, vertical growth will become the focus later on - once the rest of the land has been properly filled out.

[nabaxo]

What do you plan on teching next?

[Lord Parkin]

About time to beef up the military again, so probably Construction.