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For those who are interested, I've commenced (re-)reading war-segments of people's reporting threads. This is going to take quite a while, another reason for posting before doing anything like a comprehensive survey. Anyway, going from most recent to least recent finished pbem, I didn't see anything interesting (relevant) in 47 (it collapsed early). 44, I was impressed by Boldly's judicious use of both offence and defence when the situation warranted (his was a good thread to look at because he was defending most of the game). He definitely did not suffer from any fixation with the offensive. Sian, on the other hand, drew much comment in Boldly's thread for the same. I haven't looked at Commodore's or Slowcheetah's threads yet.
Also, while doing this I happened to see the description for pbem 46 in the pbem list: "There will be blood." Lol.
June 28th, 2013, 21:55
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Turn 157: second turn of peace.
Founded Castle Volkihar (on an island ... with stone ...):
Gotta love the Incan UB. Relevant all through the game ... along with my Expansive trait. This is a valuable plant: on incense, for +1 happiness everywhere and three commerce in the city tile with Financial. Plus gets me stone (don't know if that'll actually be relevant) and international trade routes. The Soul Cairn (below Castle Volkihar - get it?) is coming along in a couple turns for more of those, then garrison troops.
City summary:
I plan to launch the Golden Age on t160, when draft unhappiness will have worn down enough to allow for Representation and Free Speech. The latter, of course, assumes Old Harry doesn't force me to remain in Nationhood by an obvious troop buildup that I would need to match. On the last turn of Golden Age and of peace, I would switch back to my present civics, maybe keeping Representation if I decide my cities can handle it. And those would theoretically be my endgame civics.
On a less serious note, I'm not sure why I needed to research Steel to build cannon, because apparently my people can build GOLDEN CANNON:
Golden cannon for a Golden Age.
June 30th, 2013, 21:58
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Turn 158: third turn of peace.
A look at the frontiers:
The northwest:
South of there:
East of there:
Northeast of there:
The usual suspect:
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Turn 159: fourth turn of peace.
New cities:
I now equal Old Harry in city-count (though his non-core cities are more developed, obviously). Next turn I plan on settling one more, to finally surpass him. Two more sites are available within my borders, but I don't think I'll settle them yet.
As I mentioned in the tech thread, I am (and will be till the end of August) using mobile internet. It seems to be quite slow, and our monthly bandwidth is limited. For these reasons I think I'm going to have to limit myself to one image per report for the remainder of the summer, which is very unfortunate since I'd hoped to do another run-through of all my cities at the end of the Golden Age, and since war will probably recommence during that time. Hmm.
July 2nd, 2013, 21:51
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If bandwidth is a problem, then save all your images as jpegs. They are like 1/10 the size of PNGs. (PNGs are lossless and don't create artifacts in artificial graphics like text, but that's not generally a problem in Civ4 screenshots.)
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Ah, thank you! I will look into how to do that. I'm sure it's just a setting in my Preferences somewhere.
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You can change the screenshot type in your CivilizationIV.ini file.
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Thanks for the detailed reporting. I enjoyed reading your long post about offensive/defensive tactics.
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Thank you very much for the encouragement, Seven; I appreciate it.
Thank you for the advice, Noble. I actually use the system (OSX) screenshots, but I looked up how to change their format as you suggested, so that should hopefully solve that problem.
Sorry for the lack of updates the past few days; I actually have not gotten the save. Well, it looks like I have now, so I'll be able to play it tonight. This has actually suited me fine, what with starting a new job and getting used to a new home, and getting to hang out with my brother a lot which I haven't been able to do this year (I'm living with him). Plus it's allowed me to play some Civ single-player for the first time in a long time. I'm trying to beat Immortal (first run-through). I think I am much better than before I started playing multiplayer, although I may have to change that opinion if the AI comes and wrecks my farmer's gambit. I don't know why I'm telling you all this. Anyway, tonight I believe I will start my Golden Age, so we'll get to see the change in my demographics. Stay tuned!
July 7th, 2013, 14:53
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Turn 160: fifth turn of peace.
I founded Dimhollow Crypt, bringing me to 17 cities and the largest empire in the world horizontally. This hasn't happened since I founded Hydranauts and Wild West the same turn all those turns ago.
I started my Golden Age as planned and switched to Representation and Free Speech - a risk if Old Harry decides to go draft-crazy and attack me as soon as the peace ends (he just discovered Nationalism). But I figured this was my play to get ahead in the game, might as well go all-out. I'll switch back on the last turn of Golden Age.
Start-of-turn and after-end-of-turn demographics:
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