[PB59] Charriu welcomes all the townfolk

[Charriu]

Summary:



Here I want to give a short list of the major and minor things I did wrong. I already talked in detail about the major problems in my last post, so I will keep it short. I also want to mention what went right. Distilling from this I want to make a list of things I want to improve in in my next games. Lastly a short list of things I noticed, disliked etc.



Major problems:

• Early misplay of Industrious
  
• Being raided by Lazteuq in the early game
  
• Failing to conquer Lazteuq
  
• Failing at long term planning
  
  

Minor problems:

• Some tech hiccups (Currency late), but that was knowingly
  
• Wrong city specialization of some cities (national wonders)
  
• Focusing to much on a culture victory early on
  
  

Things I did right:

• Surviving to the end with an intact empire
  
• Judging the importance of trade economy on a large map like this
  
• Handling the religion (shrine, random spreads on huge maps, monk economy)
  
• Going for Creative Construction when I could
  
• Great persons worked a bit better, still not perfect but better.
  
• Naming theme was more fun
  
• Camera flying worked out pretty well and made sure how the northern end was structured
  
  

Things to look out for in the next games:

• Better long term planing
  
• Better use of IND, less world wonders, more national wonders and forges
  
• More military, less buildings
  
  

And lastly some additional things, I noticed:

• I liked my reporting style, or better phrased it wasn't that time consuming this time.
  
• The new tile based micro planning spreadsheet worked great.
  
• I improved my planning tool further (tech tracking of players, maintenance planning etc.)
  

Lastly I wanted to say thank you to Coeurva, who contributed a lot in the early turns. I was very happy to see you again.

[Charriu]

Now that the post mortem is done I wanted to say a few more words about me joining any future PBs. One thing I noticed with this PB and lurking the other PBs is that I grow increasingly bored of multiplayer in general. I know that some players here said that the love MP and never want to return to SP. Well for me it is the opposite. I feel like every MP game becomes the boring same game of expand as fast as you can, build up a lot of military and whack your neighbor. For a builder-type player like me, who loves attempts at all the other victory types like space, culture and diplomatic victory those MP games get increasingly frustrating. I was lucky to be able to live out my builder side in this PB, but I know that that is the rare exception. I feel like the variety of play and playstyles is seriously lacking in MP.

Especially because I miss the one thing that I find most promising in playing against humans: diplomacy. That is the one aspect that AI never can be as good and interesting at as a human. Unfortunately to many people are burned by diplo games here, before I had the chance to try it.

TL:DR: This is most likely my last "normal" PB that I played in. I do still want to play a diplo PB as I have the hope that that is more interesting.