[SPOILERS] DaveV is not clowning around. Well, maybe a little bit...

[DaveV]

The game keeps ticking along at a turn per day, and I keep missing reports because I'm busy.

Turn 78 started with an event:



The second option asked me to pay 10 gold for -5 on the AC. I took the extra happy and damn the torpedoes.

In the west, Brian's scout made contact and my galley found coldrain's borders by moving 2W and doubling back:



I don't have a trade connection to Brian, but I can see coldrain's stuff:





Google says he has a Dark Souls 3 theme. I've never played it but my son is a big fan of the franchise.

All I can see for Brian is his city list:



Relations screen shows that everyone has contact. As usual, my scouting is sub par.



Info screen shows (as the log did) that xist has switched to city states, which will probably help his economy. coldrain is still in god king and eating the -10% military production penalty, but I can't argue with his results.



Spoiler for graphs and top 5 cities:

Some big spikes there. Culture flipping the barb city to my west is probably off the table; I think I still have a shot at the one to my south. I