[SPOILER] Joao of Inca: Time for WAR - scooter's thread

[novice]

Well Nakor shot me a message with the turn saying hello and also saying he met Lewwyn... So that (to me) meant it's pretty likely that we are either:

Cyneheard-Lewwyn-Nakor-scooter

or

Lewwyn-Nakor-scooter-Cyneheard

What's the difference? Is it a flat map?

[scooter]

What's the difference? Is it a flat map?

Actually you're right, flat map wouldn't make much sense, so I can't imagine it will be flat. In my defense, any posts that I write in the first 3 hours of being awake should be mostly ignored .

I see so many forests and you took the monarchy aproach altought i think you'll not use hereditary rules for 20 turns afetr you get, because a city its growing faster if its smaller and 2 or 3 cotages/city are more then enough for a very long time.

I guess I'm willing to take the chance. My main fear is that I'll tank my economy from heavy expansion and then take forever to get to Monarchy. I want to get to Monarchy while I'm still teching.

[scooter]

Well another turn came in... I took a quick look at the demo screens to see where we're at in cities. Here's Lewwyn:



We're even. I checked last turn and I did beat him to city4 by 1T, but the short of it is that we're pretty even at the moment. Here's Nakor:



I think he's falling behind a little bit. Top cities:



The two "flooded" cities are Lewwyn, so he has a city at size4. The demos, well:



Finally on top . It's actually not very relevant because whipping cycles heavily vary who is on top, but it's nice to see me pop onto the top of the list for a (brief) moment. Quick look at the unit screen:

[scooter]

T20: 1 city, 1 worker
T30: 2 cities, 2 workers

[scooter]

Little dotmapping of the north. Red and blue will probably be my next two cities (in that order), and yellow may wait a little bit. Actually.. Hm. I could settle yellow and go the farm and mines route and just have it pump settlers for basically all of eternity. Something to think about anyways.

[scooter]

Quick shot from the turn played this morning. Chop came in at BB so I swapped to a settler real quick to get it:



I believe I actually swapped to the mine for 1T after the picture was taken, so I actually got more hammers out of this. Note the cottage on the floodplains - and the farm is being cottaged over right now. Another settler is about to complete at AA.

[scooter]

Quick update - T55. AA finished a settler at EoT, and he's headed to the spot mentioned earlier.



BB swapped to a Quecha for 1T to grow to size 4, and then will go back to the settler:

[pling]

Any chance of your T60 stats? I've got them from everyone else

[scooter]

Any chance of your T60 stats? I've got them from everyone else

Whoops, nearly forgot.

5 cities
1 settler en route (on the spot - settled t61)
8 workers

[scooter]

Well it's been 10 turns since I've last updated, so here's a couple looks at the demos and such. I feel behind for awhile, but I'm back near the top, but really the fluctuation is all about whipping cycles and stuff - the only person who is truly behind is probably Nakor. So at T65, demos look like this:



GNP is atrocious, and part of that is I whipped off of the gold tile, so that's certainly a factor at the moment. Food/MFG is strong. Graphs:



Lewwyn has been the leader for quite some time as he got a jump on cities founded, but I seem to have edged past him this turn, mostly due to him whipping I'm guessing. Production is different:



This time it's Cyneheard who has been the dominant force here lately - I took a big dive when I placed some cottages and whipped off of my hills (I had a stretch of a few turns where I whipped pretty much everything). Again, you can see Nakor is basically out of the game already.

So that's where things stand at the moment. City count:

Lewwyn - 6
scooter - 6
Cyneheard - 6
Nakor - 4


So yes, we've got a solid 3-horse race going on at the moment.