[SPOILERS] Caesar Amelia of Rome

[Whosit]

I just wanted to point something out because it does not look like anyone else has (only read your thread just now): You should be able to irrigate Black Mesa's Rice eventually with Civil Service. The city tile itself counts as irrigated because it is next to the oasis.

Also, I liked the StarCraft reference from the first page.

Is there any Iron besides that patch in the bottom of the map? What are your plans for acquiring it?

[Bobchillingworth]

Hey, thanks for posting Whosit


I noticed the oasis, I don't think I can irrigate through the city square because it's built on a hill, but I could always farm over the horses later if I can secure another source elsewhere.


No other sources of iron spotted; I should have it within my borders shortly once I reach 60% culture, which will be within 3-4 turns as City 17 has a lot of culture as the Hindu holy city.



My land looks awful for commerce, so I hope I land Judaism in the next couple turns- two religions will be a great boon to go with my anticipated city spam.

[Whosit]

I noticed the oasis, I don't think I can irrigate through the city square because it's built on a hill, but I could always farm over the horses later if I can secure another source elsewhere.

I checked it out. It doesn't matter if the city is on a hill: City squares always spread irrigation. As soon as you get Civil Service, you can irrigate around the Horses.

[Ilios]

That's not my impression. Cities founded on desert tiles can spread irrigation, but if built on a hill, no dice.

[Jabah]

On the very first versions of C4, you could get irrigation through a hill-city, but that was removed a while ago (and not really advertised at that time iirc)

[Whosit]

That's . . . strange. Granted, I did this in World builder, but I made a little 3x3 island, put a hill in the middle, an oasis to the right, and rice to the left (so it wasn't actually touching the oasis), founded a city on the hill, and I could irrigate the rice (after giving myself Civil Service, of course).

Would anyone else care to test this?

[Ilios]

I could irrigate the rice (after giving myself Civil Service, of course).

Do you mean the rice was at 5 food instead of 4 after Civil Service or you farmed the rice?

[Whosit]

Do you mean the rice was at 5 food instead of 4 after Civil Service or you farmed the rice?

. . . Totally forgot to check . . . . In my defense, I had just gotten home from a 12-hour shift. So you are all probably right.

[Bobchillingworth]

Arghhhh this stupid goddamn game. TT finally got the save out after holding up the turn for the millionth time (tomorrow he holds up the turn for time a million-and-one), and now Sandover has probably gone to bed over in Bhutan or wherever the hell he lives where the sun is going down when decent people are waking up.

I just want to get past turn 50 at least. This game has been running for, what, three months or so, and we average like three turns a week. I could sort of understand if everyone is perpetually on vacation, but most of the lost turns are due to the same couple people managing to not upload the damn things. It's awful.




Wahh wahhh wahhh sorry gotta vent. I'm sure there are many better things to go mad over than a Civ PBEM game. That's not gonna stop me, tho

[Bobchillingworth]

So, Things of Interest are finally happening.


First, my [SIZE="4"]Turn 51 Overview[/SIZE] (a turn late I know, oh well)







My empire overview. The settler being built in City 17 heads to the flagged city location for my future Globe Theater / National Epic town. I have a smaller civ than an imperialistic leader should at this point in the game, but settling is proceeding apace now, and I'm not in any settling races at the present. The failure cash from Stonehenge has proven to be more useful than the wonder itself would ever be, happily enough.

I need to double revolt into Organized Religion and Slavery, followed by Hinduism, soon- probably will next turn after the settler finishes.

Tech path is to finish writing -> hunting -> metal casting.



Now for my cities:



City 17






Nice production, decent science at the moment, but not much long-term commercial potential outside of the shrine. I'm going to build a chariot after the settler finishes, followed by a large series of relatively cheap builds including a library, worker, settler, 2X Hindu Missionary, forge, and then hopefully the pyramids (if not them, then a granary followed by more workers & settlers until a decent wonder is available).


Black Mesa




My second city. I'm going to build a temple next so that I can start running a priest specialist for either the Hindu shrine or a theology bulb. After the temple finishes, I'm going to build some combination of a barracks, spears, and a forge. Like most of my cities, this area has great production & not much else.



Nova Prospekt






My latest town. I'm going to be mainly working cottages here, until I have calendar, and later chain irrigation. Nova Prospekt is growing a little bit more quickly than I had anticipated, so it'll have to work that unimproved jungle sugar until I finish mining the grassland hill in a couple turns. Build plan is granary -> barracks -> Library, with possible spears / axes / praets as needed. Culture will come through Hindu missionary spread.




And finally, my border with my sole contact, Sandover:







I've exchanged several emails with Sandover, which I assume he has been posting, and diplomatic relations seem promising right now, with a fair amount of mutual intel exchange, and talks of my possibly buying his first great person, which he could produce as a prophet.


He has stated that he won't found any more cities toward me, which is good because I'd have to raze them if he did There's certainly space for me to stick a border town between us, but the lack of food and his creative culture means that this won't be a vast priority. Right now the best location seems to be on the plains river forest tile 2S of my chariot next to his new city. It seems a shame to not use all those grassland hills to the far West, but without food they won't even be usable until windmills, and filler at best.



Yeah, so any questions or comments?