Intersite Game - Turn Discussion Thread

[SevenSpirits]

Looking like I will miss the stream.

If it's not too much trouble, would you post city screens after playing this turn? Both for this turn and future reference.

[scooter]

Turn 159 - 980AD

The German team left Wittenberg empty, so we took it with a War Chariot:

We then moved up a sentry to look around.



Due to the discussion and general confusion over what WPC was going to want, we went ahead and moved to the tile 1E of Wittenberg, forking the two eastern cities.



So this is where things got weird. WPC was online at the same time, and finally they responded to our chat. They started talking to us in the diplo window, which unfortunately I missed a screenshot of. If someone wants to screenshot it via stream, knock yourself out . Anyway, so the diplo window chat went like this:

1) They asked to buy our stone for 4gpt for 10T. They need to whip walls because the German team is seriously going to attack their front cities. Judging by where their troops are organized, I think they really are going after Huron, which is hilarious. Regardless, we went ahead and accepted this. The only city on stone is Starfall on walls, and those walls are pretty pointless. So we talked about it and agreed to it. Maybe some goodwill or something, since this got more awkward.

2) Beta then said they thought what would be fair was for us to capture all 4 cities, and then gift all 4 of them to WPC. This was when I notified them that city gifting is banned, and Beta was sad and didn't know what to say. Then the chat shifted to normal chat window:



Got a bit awkward there. This is when a certain team member (who will remain nameless in this post, but surely will be outed in follow-up posts) in the chat offered to triple check the rules. They pasted a rule that more or less said city gifting when you're getting killed is banned, but it's acceptable in normal circumstances. Whaaaaat. So we were wrong? I was wrong when I yelled it 50x in our thread? We had a good laugh over the fact that we were all wrong about the rule:



AAAAAAAND that's when Unnamed Team Member noticed he was pasting the rule for a past ISDG, not the current one. Yes, city gifts are banned like we all have been saying. So, this is... awkward. The whole exchange was surreal and hilarious, which you'll see if you watch the stream. Best/worst game ever. Anyway, we'll address that in the diplo thread I guess. Moving along, somehow nobody (including me!) noticed this when I posted it in thread yesterday, so check out this goodie:



Settled great general! That about wraps it for this turn. It's time for a long debate over what to do about WPC. Demos here:

[scooter]

Seven - it's late so I don't have time to dump every city. However, here are our central cities that have been sharing tiles around for you guys:

Turn is not ended, so if you guys want to run through cities and suggest any changes, feel free. Noble and I tried to follow suggestions, and I think we got them all, but there were a lot scattered all over the place. We can wait on ending turn til we've had a chance to discuss.

I also set science to 70% just in case someone accidentally hits enter. You guys who are figuring that stuff out - I'd suggest popping into the game and figuring exactly what we need. I don't know if we need to up it to 80 or keep it at 70 and add research builds. Just let me know what's needed.

[NobleHelium]

CE is working all the mines because I really don't see any point in growing to work mines when we can be working them right now. We aren't going to be drafting regular (i.e. non-Starfall) cities until Gunpowder for the most part.

[scooter]

One thing I did miss in the report: we did snipe the Catapult that was 1NW of Warendorf. We used an 8/10xp C2 Knight because it just barely was worth 2xp (99% odds, but the strength ratio was nearly perfect for 2xp), so that Knight can take a 3rd promotion next turn. Okay, that covers it.

[antisocialmunky]

Here you go (Note the "They Do Not Accept"):

[SevenSpirits]

Cities look OK to me. NH, I disagree with your reasoning on principle, but the courthouse is a really strong build here, so I am good with that tile assignment.

In the next couple of turns I'd like to have MM work the gold a few more times, trading a cottage to FF in exchange. This transfers food from MM's food box to FF where it will actually be put to use within the next 20 turns. But let's do that on turns when we are running 100% gold to take advantage of MM's high gold multipliers.

[pindicator]

I think we should send a note to WPC explaining our mistake right away. Regardless of what we do with the cities, it would be bad to let them continue with that misunderstanding of the rules.

Edit: I see it was done. Good

[Lewwyn]

I see you took Wittenbirge.
That was scheduled for us...
LEEEERRROOOOYYY　JEEEEEENNKIIIIIINNNS!!!

[antisocialmunky]

What type of idiot signs up for a game without reading the rules?