how is it going
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Hah, alright, I guess.
Here's a slightly out-of-date view of my empire:   I now also have a city on the marked tile near the southern fur. I've made a couple major errors so far this game- * Vault was my first expansion, because I A: hadn't scouted a few tiles to the east to reveal the much better copper spot, and B: I forgot that I didn't start with Fishing. So it spent like 8 turns working a grassland forest and being useless. It's a decent city now though at least. * I missed out on the Oracle by a single turn because I got cocky and had only 2 out of 6 workers on chopping duty. That hurt pretty bad, I really wanted to take Metal Casting for the Colossus, which will be hideously OP on this map. It's not as big an issue, but Khan also beat me to a really nice city spot in the north by virtue of turn order. Ugh. At least I'm not GE; behold this nonsense:  Look at that crap. He has like only four cities, one just founded, all of his are really tiny, and yet he has a million cottages he can't even work, including one on tundra(!). Sadly I don't seem to be geographically positioned in an optimal location to take land at his expense, so he's probably just going to end up fueling Khan's lead. My demographics are okay. 2nd in most of the important stuff, first in military (although given that like every city can at least 3-turn troops that doesn't mean much). Tech path will be to finish CoL (I'm trying to finally learn my lesson about Toroid expenses), then get myself some Organized Religion (and a shrine- I've lost hundreds of gold in PBEM 70 by never having generated a Prophet). After that, Metal Casting, then Construction. Assuming I get everything I want, I'll have ludicrous commerce and a huge happy cap. What else... oh yeah, I also was a total dick to Sian early on, haha. My starting Warrior waltzed through his empire, burning a mine and a pasture, and generally fucking with his solitary Worker. I think he may have subsequently lost a Settler to Khan as well; I saw an unescorted one at one point, Sian took forever to found a second expansion, and Khan has a "declared war" malus with him in the diplo screen. Amazingly my Warrior survived being chased out of Sian's empire by an Immortal (he inexplicably took peace a turn before he could have killed it), and it's currently defogging GE's territory. This game moves astoundingly fast. 2-3 turns a day at quick speed. I'm try to not let it get to my head and over-expand unto my demise; it's very tempting when Settlers take 2-4 turns.
Oh yeah, forgot the most important thing- my theme is Golden Sun (GBA era), the greatest JRPGs ever made.
Argh, guess that northern city was a stretch too far for Khan, he'll raze it in a couple turns. I shouldn't lose any units at least. Hmm. I don't want to concede that area, so I'm very tempted to come back in force.
At the same time, I'm guessing he'd be pretty happy if I was willing to live and let live, so I might just file this one away in the "avenge later" bank and focus on building up elsewhere. There's still a lot of map left after all, and I don't want to tempt Sian into messing with me in the south while I invest hammers into warring up north.
That's assuming Khan doesn't try to burn anything else. He does that & all bets are off.
I should add here for his eventual benefit that I rejected a copper-copper offer Khan sent, for no reason other than that I couldn't understand the intent. That's typically what people send when they want military support in a war, but he isn't fighting anyone.
So, I've scouted most of the map, and I appear to be rather lacking in land tiles. Like, everyone else has been able to fit close to a solid ring of cities around their capital; I've got all these narrow little land bridges spiraling off toward other people's cores. There is a fair chunk of solid land to my east, but A: it's three city lengths distant from my capital (and therefore absurdly expensive to colonize) and B: there's an alarming paucity of resources.
What land I do have is pretty high quality, but so is everyone else's. Which they have about twice as much of. To be clear, I have enough land to keep up in the city count. But I don't have a single city which isn't coastal, and that isn't by choice. Not overly pleased with the situation.
I apologize for this. Unfortunately, I wasn't prepared to hand draw this map, so used Torusland instead as a base, and never counted land tiles available to individual players. Land imbalance was not an issue that I ever noticed, and nor was it raised in the review process, so I never thought to consider it.
I hope that this failing on my part does not present an insurmountable challenge for you.
Erebus in the Balance - a FFH Modmod based around balancing and polishing FFH for streamlined competitive play.
If I hadn't lost the Oracle by a turn I'd be in a much better position, since 2/4 coast ain't bad. As it is, I'm fairly certain I'm destined to fall behind Khan and Sian in the long run, as both will have a higher production base, and the latter will have more fin-backed cottages.
I'll do what I can anyway to win ofc, but it is frustrating. Not being able to settle a "ring" also means I'm paying a lot, as each new expansion is further and further away from my capital. All the land available to me is like 4th ring at this point, which is crazy considering that I only have maybe 8 cities. So I'm paying more for less.
Yeah, mentally I'm done here. I can realistically only settle about four more cities. Every single one of mine will be coastal. There's literally no space in what is obviously my land where I could have settled a land-locked city that wasn't 1-tile off the coast.
Sorry Qg, I know I've already moaned about this, but this sucks. Coastal tiles make for a very weak production and food base, plus the geography means that my "core", such as it is, cannot reinforce any of my border cities within a reasonable timeframe. Also many of my cities are incredibly expensive because I've never been able settle anything even remotely resembling a ring. Plus I'm hideously vulnerable to a naval invasion. I no longer have any interest in this game, so if someone else wants to jump in feel free. |
