[SPOILERS] Scooticator and Pindooter give a sporting try

[BRickAstley]

Holy fucking shit if that happened to Auburn I would go kill a zebra.

[fluffyflyingpig]

PAC 12 refs haven't had enough close games under the national spotlight to blow in spectacular fashion yet. They did try their best with the UCLA/Utah game last night making an absolute mess of a pass interference call on a tipped ball. But even after the referee screwing up the call and his crew's damage control that made things worse, replay sorted everything out. ASU/Wisconsin was hilarious and does not count.

Texas/ISU was a series of 3 terrible calls (and ignored holding!) that culminated in blowing the pivotal ISU fumble recovery that would have ended the game. And even after the replay they STILL couldn't get it right. And now the B12 is supporting their bullshit.

[pindicator]

Turn 082



Going back to my puzzler, I'm sure the lurkers already knew the answer. And that I may have to drop Black Sword / Jowy a few rungs on the next ranking. I also am starting to think that razed copper city used to be theirs.

I sailed through and offered peace. Not much else to do.



Out east a nice little exercise in dot-mapping is starting to emerge. I'm thinking we either settle the east coast of the island with a fish/clam city and then fill-in with the wheat in the south, or alternatively we settle 2N1E of the wheat and then use the seafood for cities on other islands.



Lewwyn settled his next city, directly towards us and cutting us off from any hopes of that lone coastal dye. Looks like marble city will be our border -- it's also a good thing we're going for it now, because they may also have ideas to reach for it. In any case, I will start figuring out the best way to get that city up. We'll chop a monument first and then the plan is to build MoM in the capital with the remaining chops we have in that city.

Also, keep an eye on Nakor. His warrior was going east-to-west, but now it's doubled back just to sit near our workers. The peace treaty has 5 more turns on it, but we need to be sure he doesn't try to snipe a worker back on t87.

[NobleHelium]

Dotmapping the island seems pretty obvious to me. Southwest of the clam and west of the wheat, unless there's more seafood in the southeast corner. We can still use the fish for the further eastern island. I don't think there's a need to settle the single tile island unless there's another seafood, in which case the city won't need the clam.

Build Moai in the southwest of clam city, unless the further island city is strong enough and is settled soon enough.

I'm not convinced that we should be building MoM in the potential border city. It's only four chops and on the border. We still have three chops + a third ring chop at the capital which has a granary and lots of hills. There are even more third ring chops to the north that we can use if we want. I bet we can build it faster there and not hurt the new city growth curve as much.

[pindicator]

Yeah, the wheat would be a bad choice to feed all those hills. And i like a massive Moai/productioncare of our navy needs

[NobleHelium]

It's actually not possible to feed all those hills now that you mention it, because there's no fresh water on the island. Well, I hope there's another seafood on the south side.

[pindicator]

Obviously we need to test out RB Mod Serfdom and build lots of windmills

Edit: Sidenote - I'm really surprised Lewwyn didn't try to plant Bacon Wrap on the coast to grab the marble.

[NobleHelium]

What does Serfdom do for windmills, does it add food?

[pindicator]

IIRC it gives +1h to windmills & watermills along with +75% worker speed. So it turns hills into 2/3/1 tiles early on. Honestly, I dont' think we have enough hills to make it worthwhile, although we are a bit lacking in food.

+Food on windmills would be ... different, and probably too good.

[NobleHelium]

Right but that's for grass hills only. Plains hills still only give 1f.