[SPOILERS]Novice, Spacemanmf and Athlete4life10 are HUYANA CAPAC OF CHINA

[novice]

Okay, T8 played and sent on.

Here's where we met Ruff:


I tried to send a message to him, hope I did it correctly. I just typed in the text and clicked Offer trade (you can only see the end of the message, hope he can see everyting), didn't seem like there was any other way to do it.


Also sent this:


Demographics:


Switching around some tiles confirms that there are still two people working the rice.

GNP:
Ad Hoc is still at 26. Someone else is at 26 or 25, as we're third when configured for a GNP of 25. Only way to reach 25 or 26 without being financial or creative is by double pre-req bonus.

...or by having +5 culture from Buddhism. Doh! OK, so Ruff has 25 or 26. The two remaining seem to be stuck at 19, which is rice-powered research into a single pre-req tech, so presumably Pegasus and TT researching BW.

So.. 19+19+26 = 64. Average is 22, 4x22 = 88,89,90 or 91 which means Ruff has 24,25,26 or 27. That adds up.

If Ruff is researching Agriculture while working the town he gets 4 ep + 7 culture + 14 commerce + 1 beaker = 26. All right then.

So tech summary:
Ad Hoc is one turn from Polytheism
Pegasus and TT are one turn into BW.
Ruff is one turn into Agriculture.

Nobody's grown yet so presumably everyone went worker first.

[spacemanmf]

Heh, I was going to rename the warrior Seven Of Clubs if I had the chance. Great minds and all that.

I'm quite surprised that we have met someone already on a large map, which suggests that we are bunched together on a smaller landmass, with larger islands elsewhere.

It makes me think that it might be something like the map in PBEM7 since generally maps are being made to be symmetrical. Not sure how the peak across the water fits in, though.

Nice work on the demographics.

[novice]

Agree on your thoughts regarding the map. One good thing about meeting Ruff is that we now have one neighbour who isn't TT. If the map is like PBEM7 we'll only have two neighbours.

The peak island screams galley bridge to me.

[novice]

So, I tried in a hotseat game and I can't get the messages to transmit. The other player just gets an empty diplo screen. What am I doing wrong?

[spacemanmf]

Hmmm, not sure. Maybe there has to be a trade possible as well.

When you play normal MP, you have to Enter to get it onto the screen above - did you do that?

[novice]

Hmmm, not sure. Maybe there has to be a trade possible as well.

When you play normal MP, you have to Enter to get it onto the screen above - did you do that?

I did try to press Enter but that didn't move the text, so that's probably the problem. Might need possible trades, as you say.

[spacemanmf]

I just played a hotseat match to test various combinations. If you type some text in the box, hit Enter and offer trade, the text does appear on the other civ's diplo screen. It seems that you can do multiple messages and type a fair amount of text, and it still goes through, even with no other trades possible.

[novice]

I just played a hotseat match to test various combinations. If you type some text in the box, hit Enter and offer trade, the text does appear on the other civ's diplo screen. It seems that you can do multiple messages and type a fair amount of text, and it still goes through, even with no other trades possible.

OK, I found out what I did wrong. It turns out the diplo window doesn't respond to any of my Enter keys when Num Lock is active...

So Ruff will have received two empty diplo windows from us, it will be interesting to see how he responds.

[spacemanmf]

At least you've figured out why it wasn't working. I love a good random reason like that.

Hopefully he will suggest an NAP...

We should probably explain what we did when we get the turn back.

[spacemanmf]

Ok, this is a got it. I see that you've marked the email as read but you haven't posted here so I'll go for it.

Right, here are some screenshots.

First, the map. Ruff has moved his warrior towards our capital. There is no diplomatic response from him.



Next, Hinduism has predictably (i.e. as predicted by you) been founded in a distant land, by ad hoc.



Finally, here are the latest demographics. Note that Rival Best is now 28, which is presumably ad hoc boosted by the religion culture, so as Ruff but with his Creative culture.