La Plaisanterie, C'est Moi - Ichabod's Spoiler Thread

[Ichabod]

You mean 99 modified hammers per turn.

Yeah, that's right.

Seriously speaking, it's certainly a possibility. I don't think Thoth will go for it, at least not devote too much to get it (he'll have to worry about catching up on food after Stonehenge). Creative also fits reasonably with Pyramids...

[Ichabod]

I'm having fun sandboxing this start.

Pottery -> BW or BW -> Pottery are pretty similar in my opening. I think I prefer Pottery first to get a quick fp cottage (I think it also uses the worker turns better). BW has the benefit of revealing copper. Well, I'll get it before my third city either way, so no harm done (second city is the corn-cow spot, no doubt about it).

I've made a settler -> granary -> perfect 20 hammers for an immortal overflow chain that made me proud (4 whip to 2, 2 grow to 3 in 2 turns, getting the granary and immortal -> than worker at size 3).

Fun stuff.

[Ichabod]

Picture dump!

Animal Husbandry!




More food!




Some sandbox attempts (still need further optimization that I'm already aware of):

BW first (ignore all that gold, my mistake):

Capital and second city have granaries.







Pottery first (capital was badly managed towards the end of the attempt):

Capital and second city have granaries.

[Ichabod]

Early happy problem may have been solved, at least a bit of it. Though I need to find some food to settle this:




I've been playing around with the sandbox. I think going BW first is better than Pottery. BW first gives 2 more food, while Pottery first give 2 more beakers. Here's a picture of BW first on my last run:




Novice, what do you think is better? A settler for the fifth city first or a library in the capital? My previous attempt, which can be seen on the post above, gets first to size 5 and starts on a settler sooner (I whip the capital at size 4 there while building a worker). This attempt (the one on this post), whips the worker at size 5, completes a granary and a library (while waiting for whip anger to go away), and than starts on the settler.

Of course, if I go for the library, I'll stop researching when I reach mathematics and save gold for when I get the library (I didn't do this here). So it'll get more beakers.

I prefer the library, until further reveal of the map.

[Ichabod]

I decided to go for the BW first opening. It's not that big of a difference, but I liked this one the best. It seems everybody (but Seven) already has a capital size 2. Krill started with WB, I think. Kyan is expansive, so that probably meant faster worker and faster growth. So, I guess Thoth and Serdoa had a plains hill start, getting a faster worker. Seven moved his starting settler, so he's a bit behind the others. Though I think he probably moved to a plains hill too, so he'll be size 2 before me too.




Be noted that this is the terrain fault, not mine! I'll surely make quite a lot of mistakes, but worker first was certainly not one of them. Where's my plains hill settle, map?

Capital expanded borders at eot. Here's what it revealed.




My screenshot of the south didn't take as I wanted. There's a Fresh Water Corn on the tile where the red arrow points.

[novice]

Hard to say without simming. You're beelining Mathematics and you have a ton of forests, so maybe you should build another worker instead of a library. Go a bit worker heavy, then chop out more settlers when Mathematics is in, and try to line up insta-chopped granaries in your new cities.

[pindicator]

Hey, you've got that riverside windmill for food by the gold!

[novice]

I hear Seven's thread has speech bubbles...

[NobleHelium]

Yeah, I think you need to Calvinify your screenshots.

[novice]

I guess if we want screenshots, we'll have to take them ourselves. Start of t18:



Settler build shows 6 turns but will complete in 5 since the corn is being farmed.


Great news, it's possible to settle a good city for the gold.


And there's even greater land due west of the capital. Moai city 1S of the gems, anyone?


This is the planned second city AFAIK:


And this was the third, I believe. In light of the great land in the west, I think the third city should go west though. The spot highlighted here just grabs two new resources, cows and wine. That's not good enough.


Events so far, Ichabod apparently met Thoth a few turns ago. If that was in the west, all the more reason to settle in that direction.


Demographics suck:


Because most players opted to grow past size 2.