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spoilers: this aint no cakewalk, its a musicalcatwalk; pacal of inca

#331
October 9th, 2012, 15:04
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i got a pair of workers on the ivory right now and another team en route to the pigs. also teams are on their way to the skimbleshanks and rumpleteazer sites - 1st team getting there is roading to connect both cities by effectively 1 road. macavity has only 2 virgin forests left. mistoffelees is has one tile unimproved. bombalurina needs to start clearing jungle. mungojerrie also just has 2 forests left. old deuteronomy has 2 grasslands to cottage. i could divert a team to improve the incense at rumtumtugger. hmm ill postcity views next time too
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October 9th, 2012, 15:07
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Sounds good then, and getting the ivory online should help a lot. When will you be able to put a plantation on the incense? Try to start growing your cities intensely now, as your happy cap will be rising a lot over the next several turns.
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October 9th, 2012, 15:27
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cant recall where the nearest workers are. possibly still around bomba so easily diverted

been trying to maximise hammers and commerce over crop where possible but the latter two seem linked everywhere haha
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#334
October 9th, 2012, 15:56
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You usually want to maximize crops. Can you give examples of your priorities?
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October 9th, 2012, 16:19
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sorry. misread your post as "intensely slow" haha. were hitting the happy cap quite quickly in places and i swear the fecking automation still slips on in places and prioritises growth. is there a way to permanently turn it off in settings?
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October 13th, 2012, 11:59 (This post was last modified: October 13th, 2012, 11:59 by Merovech.)
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Just copying over my probably not that helpful post from the temp forums: Probably won't get a chance to really look at this game in detail until next weekend. I am too far behind here and am very busy frown

RE: this aint no cakewalk; its a musicalcatwalk [pacal of inca]

Just got a chance to briefly skim: In mr. mistoffelees, since you are building a market, you have spare happy faces and useful tiles to grow on, and you have some hammers from the grass hills, I would actually work the 5/0/1 rice or 3/0/4 wine instead of the 0/4/0 plains hill. It's a case by case thing; I didn't actually do the math. Might in the morning
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#337
October 13th, 2012, 12:31 (This post was last modified: October 13th, 2012, 12:58 by TheMusicMan.)
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where the feck are my posts from yesterday?

(October 13th, 2012, 11:59)Merovech Wrote: Just copying over my probably not that helpful post from the temp forums: Probably won't get a chance to really look at this game in detail until next weekend. I am too far behind here and am very busy frown

RE: this aint no cakewalk; its a musicalcatwalk [pacal of inca]

Just got a chance to briefly skim: In mr. mistoffelees, since you are building a market, you have spare happy faces and useful tiles to grow on, and you have some hammers from the grass hills, I would actually work the 5/0/1 rice or 3/0/4 wine instead of the 0/4/0 plains hill. It's a case by case thing; I didn't actually do the math. Might in the morning

how did you manage that? where do i find mine to copy over?
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#338
October 13th, 2012, 13:15
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at least i had this saved:

saved on notepad as the forum was down

ok market in macavity then:

[Image: turn72macavity0000.jpg]

and in mistoffelees:

[Image: turn72mistoffelees0000.jpg]

should we switch to one in bombalurina too?

[Image: turn72bombalurina0000.jpg]

not sure about mungojerrie:

[Image: turn72mungojerrie0000.jpg]

old deuteronomy could be a problem:

[Image: turn72olddeut0000.jpg]

rumtumtugger is getting there:

[Image: turn72rumtum0000.jpg]

bustopher jones:

[Image: turn72bustopher0000.jpg]

and skimbleshanks:

[Image: turn72skimble0000.jpg]

and where to settle?

[Image: turn72options0000.jpg]

nice island:

[Image: turn72island0000.jpg]

and demos:

[Image: turn72demos0000.jpg]

another turn while the forums down!

dammit! sian beat us to code of laws and confucianism 2 turns ago - i swear it didnt show as gone then! and it appears to have been a good move not to start the mausoleum as someone got it last turn. far away land is not on this continent right? i didnt look at scores haha

quick gold/tech ratio - no graph

100%: -72gpt; 144 bpt
0%: 52gpt

sending the galley back to pick up the spare settler. wed better found the fur/horse city as i noticed sian may be on that island chain already

3rd turn with no forums

settled rumpleteazer. city maintenance went up by 7

spotted fish by the offshore island. would make a nice back-fill for the beaver/horse/clam spot further east

100%: -81gpt; 155bpt
0%: 54gpt

1 more turn at 0% and we can do code of laws in 2 turns at 80-90%

mackoti has found us. his work-boat turn up at old deuteronomy. will switch some eps over. damn we wont get shoots tech let alone sians now

heres demos:

[Image: turn74demos0000.jpg]

some improvements there. i also saw that mackoti has both oracle and the mausoleum. no idea who did hanging gardens but its possible it was thestick
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#339
October 13th, 2012, 13:17
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that kind of crosses with your post merovech haha
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October 13th, 2012, 13:46 (This post was last modified: October 13th, 2012, 13:47 by TheMusicMan.)
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dammit! gonna have to re-type my fecking notes. if i can read them! haha

its date change time!

open borders with mackoti? oh go on then

with the new cities settled we have a new worker - pollicles

gold/tech:

[Image: turn75ratio0000.jpg]

dammit! sians settled the coastal [but dry] rice and fish site so we are stuck with back-fill the island chain and heading into the fecking jungle

oh and cat heres proof that sians on the same island chain:

[Image: turn75proof0000.jpg]

and we have shoots research! haha hes only just doing calendar! and well have code of laws before he completes it. as mackotis not spending eps on us ive switched it to 2:2 between him and sian. well have sians research in 6-7 turns time unless we can get a courthouse or 2 up in time to speed things up

[or words to that effect]
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