--Dogpilers click here-- (PB7 Player Communication Thread)

[yuris125]

Hey Sunrise, greetings from the wastelands of Gotland! Any chance you can let our scouting vessel go through?

[pindicator]

But if you want, I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours.

I decided to play along

My total beakers in techs is at 11,580. I suspect that's tops in the game, but I'm also pretty certain Team FFH is going to pass me in the next 10 turns. They're really close as it is. The best I've gotten my GNP up to is 250 but that was with a lot of Wealth builds added in, so I think we're witnessing the golden age of the Lincoln Dynasty.

Well, unless I literally trigger a golden age, I suppose that would be the ... you get the idea

[Ichabod]

I decided to play along

My total beakers in techs is at 11,580. I suspect that's tops in the game, but I'm also pretty certain Team FFH is going to pass me in the next 10 turns. They're really close as it is. The best I've gotten my GNP up to is 250 but that was with a lot of Wealth builds added in, so I think we're witnessing the golden age of the Lincoln Dynasty.

Well, unless I literally trigger a golden age, I suppose that would be the ... you get the idea

How can we have so much tech and so little scoreboard points? I was thinking you guys were ahead due to tech, mostly, since pop is worth so little. Does that mean you have like double my pop?

[HitAnyKey]

I decided to play along

My total beakers in techs is at 11,580. I suspect that's tops in the game, but I'm also pretty certain Team FFH is going to pass me in the next 10 turns. They're really close as it is. The best I've gotten my GNP up to is 250 but that was with a lot of Wealth builds added in, so I think we're witnessing the golden age of the Lincoln Dynasty.

Well, unless I literally trigger a golden age, I suppose that would be the ... you get the idea

How do you find out how much tech points you have? I'm almost curious to find out how I compare to you, but I know it'll make me want to jump off a bridge if I know.

[pindicator]

How do you find out how much tech points you have? I'm almost curious to find out how I compare to you, but I know it'll make me want to jump off a bridge if I know.

Honestly it's a brute force method. Count up all the beaker costs of all the techs you have. I thought about giving a F4 pic instead of the number but I want to keep a little intrigue about

Oledavy made a wonderful spreadsheet to compare research among teams in PB6 and I copied the idea so I can track teams side by side. Maybe once I get contacts with everybody I'll post something so everybody can be on the same page in the knowledge department. (And so people can double check my work!)

How can we have so much tech and so little scoreboard points? I was thinking you guys were ahead due to tech, mostly, since pop is worth so little. Does that mean you have like double my pop?

Each pop is worth approx 2.25 points in this game, but I don't think I'm that far ahead for it all to be population. I'm guessing that it's a little bit of everything TBH.

[Commodore]

Basically, you're Lincoln, Pin. That screams "vertical empire, specialist economy, bulb bulb bulb". Which, buy the way, means awesome things for your tech if you've really avoided Fishing. I'm sure in a four-person game with Sunrise, LP, and SMack you'd be about to win. Unfortunately, normal speed, tons of people, etc etc.

[Ichabod]

Basically, you're Lincoln, Pin. That screams "vertical empire, specialist economy, bulb bulb bulb". Which, buy the way, means awesome things for your tech if you've really avoided Fishing. I'm sure in a four-person game with Sunrise, LP, and SMack you'd be about to win. Unfortunately, normal speed, tons of people, etc etc.

I'm in 4th place in this game and yet you referred to SMack. You insulted my honor. I challenge you to a duel.

Hon'iden Matahachibod

[Ichabod]

Btw, Sunrise, I'd like to settle a city for the ivory and rice. You could have the pig south of there. How about that?

Where's Pindicator, btw? There's no place for his empire to be, since Moogle is to the east of that spot.

[pindicator]

Basically, you're Lincoln, Pin. That screams "vertical empire, specialist economy, bulb bulb bulb". Which, buy the way, means awesome things for your tech if you've really avoided Fishing. I'm sure in a four-person game with Sunrise, LP, and SMack you'd be about to win. Unfortunately, normal speed, tons of people, etc etc.

Yeah, that's been the plan. Except you need happiness to continue to grow vertically, so it hasn't been perfect. That's why I had the early food lead; I built lots of monuments

IMO, saying I'd be in a position to win if it was a 4 player game is stretching it. This is a fun game; i've been making sub-optimal (i prefer to call them "creative") strategy choices. That's also why I'm so chatty about what I'm doing. Or also because I see the writing on the wall: no room to expand while the GNP leader has narrow chokes for borders and lots more land to fill out. So why stress?

And for the record I have fishing now. I considered staying away from it to open up more "creative" choices, but I found a fish and I plan on netting it.

[Commodore]

I'm in 4th place in this game and yet you referred to SMack. You insulted my honor. I challenge you to a duel.

Hon'iden Matahachibod

Oh no, I was actually picking four examples to illustrate the spread: From the sound of it, Pin is a small(er) empire running a SE, Sunrise a small(er) empire running a CE, Lord Parkin a big empire running a CE, and SMack a big empire running a SE. I know you distant westies from smack talk only, it sounds like you FFHers, Moogle, and a few others might very well be doing better than others of the example sets.

Although watching SMack 5-turn Machinery...