Dreylin Blues 2000 is on (another) mission from Cod

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T058 -

Naufragar has leveraged his IMP up to 5 cities:


And relation web much as expected:

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T059 -

Pottery finishes EoT. Haddock whipped a Worker this turn and overflow will go into their Granary; Worker will add a chop to complete it. Due to my incredible micro skill (*AKA sheer dumb luck), Cod will finish the turn at 69/100 in a Settler; 2-pop whip and a chop should be a 1-turn Granary. Stonefish will slow-build theirs while growing, and Trout will likely combo a Worker whip overflow with slow-build.

I finally realised that my "Temple in Haddock to run a Priest" plan actually depends on having Hinduism in the city.   The obvious solution is to build the Oracle <ahem> abandon that plan until later when I have a good spot to spend 80h as well as the spare pop. Maaaybe Stonefish once the food is online?

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Also this turn in "things I should have damn well realised before", I remembered that if Mjmd had indeed discovered Buddhism, it would give me KTB on the Tech:



Nope. So someone else out there has it and Mjmd is probably the Masonry chasing Monotheism.

IW turnaround is at 50% tech (avoiding rounding loss); FWIW, breakeven is currently 60-70% so I'll have a better estimate next turn.

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The obvious solution is to build the Oracle.

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The Oracle: The easiest way to turn hammers into food in the early game.

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T061 -

Settler on the way for city5 (Perch). Will plant in 2t with Worker in place to start Pasture on the Pigs.



I think my GNP wants me to settle the Gems next, which would also be the spot adjacent to it so it could be worked immediately. I've come around on this shift and pushing the Maoi South to Haddock. I've also been rejigging the dotmap down there with the Cows city next in priority.

Greenline's Warrior has been poking around the area; I have a Chariot supervising, but since they have been rolling turns I've lost sight right now.

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The Oracle: The easiest way to turn hammers into food in the early game.

Thanks, I needed that.

I'd come to the conclusion that I should at least look at the practicalities of it, and of course once you do something like that it automatically becomes more attractive. I'd even been thinking about the benefits of having a teammate to talk me out of it!

Ultimately though, since I've already concluded that trying to grab a religion was a mistake (even if it did ultimately yield that religion), then going out of the way to run a second gambit to try to make that first mistake pay off ... is ultimately not addressing, but compounding that mistake. Sunk cost fallacy.

For the record though, the plan would be something like: t62 start Priesthood research (4t tech), move 3 Workers into forests to pre-chop, t65 whip for overflow, t66 start Oracle - finish 3chops, t68 start 3 chops, t70 complete 3 chops, t71 Oracle = Iron Working & source of Prophet points for Shrine.

Opportunity cost (approximately): Gems city, Gems Mine, ~3 cottages, ~3 forests not chopped.

Argh, I think I'm talking myself back into it.  

Part of it is that I feel like one of the 5 Workers I will shortly have should have been 60% of a Settler instead. And obviously the way to correct that is not to use the Worker to facilitate another Settler, but to pursue some other random goal. 

But t71 Iron Working does sound good....

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T062 -

I did not start researching Priesthood.

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T063 -

Settled Perch:


I'm going to assume that Ginger doesn't want to start a war here with their friendlier neighbour!

Here is the current dotmap for the South:


I'm currently leaning this way for the yellow linking city. I would rather plant 1W and have space for the coastal filler, but I also need it to be ready to go immediately with the Cows and don't want to wait for chopping the Monument and then the slow border pop. I considered the coastal link first, but I also want to get these borders set. I might will definitely change my mind on this over the coming turns.

You can see my Chariot has been drawn away to "supervise" greenline's Warrior, so Haddock will build another after the Granary to patrol this area. Stonefish's borders pop EoT; their Worker will chop the NW forest to finish the Granary before improving the Rice.

Haddock's worker just finished a chop and will move North to join the Cod worker putting down cottages and prepping for Gems city. When Trout finishes their new Worker in a couple of turns, that will do the same.

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T065 & T066 -

Not much going on; infra builds and escorting visitors around my borders. Did get a Hinduism spread into Perch which is a bonus. They were first-building a Granary as everything is first ring, but I can shelves the Monument until Happy becomes an issue.

In foreign news, I have not located Naufragar's neighbour, but feel I should be close. They & Ljubljana have writing, and nauf immediately signed OB with 2 other teams. Nothing showing for Ljubljana yet. I have trade connection with Ginger; will sign OB with them if they ask.

Someone picked up Priesthood, and went through Polytheism to do it. Probably Mjmd? Anyway, glad I didn't go Oracle-chasing.