AT Can't Drive 55

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My scouting plan, btw, is to swing east now and decide whether to go south or north after I see the coast.

There seem to be 3 possibilities:

1) This is a ring with everyone on it
2) There are two continents with 4 people on each.

Either way, I'm in the northwest.

(but you said THREE possibilities, AT!!!)

3) It's something else entirely.

My guess is a ring with a few islands. I think there's about 50-60 land tiles between me and the jungle to the south - I'm guessing 40 or so to my north/west. And a similar amount to my east. If there's 175 or so, that leaves about 40+, which may mean I have more land south and east, cause 40 tiles of island is pretty big

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Turn 9

Exploration turned up... more food



Not complaining, mind you. I think that nearly every turn I've uncovered new tiles, I've found food.

will cut NW - need to think through stuff to figure out how I want to scout. Might go around the sea there, might go back around the cap.



Everyone basically the same still


Because everyone loves micro plans, the worker will:

1) Farm the wheat
2) Move to the sheep, roading a tile on the way. Pasture the sheep.
3) Move to the deer, roading a tile on the way. Camp the deer.
4) Move to the cap
5) Move to the ivory, roading a tile on the way. Camp the ivory.
6) Move to the plains hill. Mine the ivory.

Grow the cap to size 3 and build a settler.

Current plan is to send the settler near the sheep. Still not sure where it will go - north isn't great, since it looks difficult to both share the sheep and be on the river to auto connect. I might road the sheep, though I dunno if I'll have enough information to decide by then.

[AutomatedTeller]

Turn 10

Exploration

No new food, but more gems, not under jungle



I'm still think city #1 goes north, but #2 may go south to share the wheat.    With IMP, a mined PH is a 6 yield tile if I'm buiilding a settler, so cap+deer+ivory+2 PH is a 5 turn settler at size 4 not needing a granary, with some chops now and then to speed it up and 2 cities set up pretty well to grow some cottages.   

Worker comes out next turn and I have to decide on scout or warrior.  I'm thinking scout - it will take 4 turns to build, so the scout will come out on turn 15, so it will be safe for about 15-20 turns from non-animals, which should be enough to scout around the cap.  Then it can go to barb busting duty in the western peninsula.  

Demos



Nothing exciting.  I'm tops in power - I think I'm the only one with the wheel, for what that's worth.   

Did some research mysticism?   there's a 21 GNP where the top GNP last turn was 20, I think.    No, looking at PBspy, ruff/civac grew, it looks like, so they are working a 2nd tile.  Yeah, there is a size 2 city.   

gavagai still hasn't researched anything - I assume he went BW first.

[AutomatedTeller]

turn 11

 

Once again, move and find food

building a scout, which will take 7 turns now that I've switched to the sheep.

[AutomatedTeller]

another step, more food

Looks like Gavagai got BW.


AH in 2.



Demos

[AutomatedTeller]

AH in 3, I mean

My 1st cities location is probably dependent on where the horse is, which i'm currently guessing will be near the gem area somewhere. I'd rather share the sheep than the wheat, but i'll survive sharing the wheat.

[AutomatedTeller]

Once again, move, find more food



This time, a 2-fer - banana and clam

I guess maybe everyone is exploring near their cap - at least, no one came direct to scout towards me yet.

[AutomatedTeller]

Things to note from the map:

There is land offshore the western cape. I am guessing that's an island.

There's a lot of land and a lot of food. Also, a lot of water. Sailing (for galleys and trade routes) will be important. a galley to move settlers across that inner sea may be the best way to settle the strip of land my scout is on. And a city on that sea early will allow me to make a lot of workboats for later cities. I'll also need a city soon on the outer sea for the same reason + scouting.

Organized Vikings would be awesome on this map.

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some dotmapping:



That's something like 14 cities, each with it's own food (2 of them share with the cap), and I haven't explored all my land.

[AutomatedTeller]

More food, kind of



I mean, technically wine gives good and FP have an extra food.

Next turn, once I see horse, I'll start actually dotmapping/planning some. It will still need to wait to finalize till I explore north of the cap.

Will probably have to rest the scout next turn - will likely get hit by that wolf, which should give me a promo.

DEMOS



Demos are interesting.

Top food is 8, which means at least one person has wet corn. Average food is 5, which is the lowest, as well. Everyone who went worker first should have gotten a worker the same turn I did, so why is there so much unimproved food? Maybe some people had to walk a full turn to get to their farm resource?

Next turn, move 1 tile towards the sheep and road. Then to the sheep and pasture.