[spoilers] Something something horses - Tasunke of the Hippus

[Ellimist]

Yeah I'll be able to.

I had a chance to explore the save you sent me. Overall I think we're doing fine. We're tied for second in food on a map that is mostly food-poor. Our capital is growing quite rapidly(but is at it's happy cap) and the other city will be founded soon.

[Sciz]

i'm debating how important it'll be to get sanitation quick. Worth delaying other stuff for? Since when we get aristocracy our cities will be very low food before we get sanitation.

[Sciz]

Second city Kurald Galain founded. Started on a monument because there's really nothing else to build right now (except an elder council I guess) and I want to connect the gold ASAP for some commerce, because we are way behind everyone commerce wise right now. Feels like everyone else started with a commerce resource nearby?

Tool the worker started farming a river plains till while waiting for animal husbandry to come in so we can connect the sheep and cow. Then crafting -> mining for the gold.

[Ellimist]

Sanitation seems critical on such a food-poor map, however what is the trade off for it? Will we be able to get enough luxuries hooked up to make it valuable?

[Sciz]

Yeah... We've got dyes, incense, gold, fur as happiness resources nearby iirc. Then a religion and civics of course. I need to really go through the tech path in depth soon, since I still haven't really decided what to do. CoL definitely, Sanitation at some point early on if possible, but then what kind of attack, and when? Stirrups for horse archers or currency for mounted mercs? Festivals early for an early GM to buy mercs for?

Speaking of religions i was thinking of going FoL later and getting ancient forests on lumbermilled tiles, since that will give us some extra food. Plains forests will be 2f/3h(and 1c if riverside)

[Sciz]

Okay so here's the lands (or part of them anyways)



If this turn goes around fast enough i'll be able to play tomorrow, but if I can't you can go ahead and play. I leave at around 5 PM GMT.

I changed Starvald Demelain's production to a settler instead of a worker, because there is really no use for a worker right now. You can switch back if you want to, but Starvald Demelain doesn't need any improvements until I get lumbermills or mining, which is far off, and Kurald Galain has nowhere left to farm except the tile the worker is currently farming, and then he'll have to wait 4 turns until Animal Husbandry is in to pasture the cows and sheep. So I thought I might as well start on a new settler instead, since SD is at its happy cap anyways, and complete the worker when the settler is done.

KG can complete its monument, then idk, but i'll probably be back before it's done anyways. Same for the settler in SD, but in case I don't come back in time, I was thinking south of the oasis near the incense to the east, which also gets a sheep tile. Spring that city and it'll be pretty decent, with the oasis tile being 4f/1h/2c, the incense being 1f/1h/6c or something. some chain irrigation from SD will also help.

Or do you have a better idea for the 3rd city location? I'm all ears. The west is pretty shitty, there's a dyes tile west of SD but nothing else, and no rivers or anything. West of KG there's that oasis/cotton/river place, but it's also pretty shit.

The worker completes its farm, then I have no clue, it has 3-4 turns to waste before animal husbandry is in, but there's nothing for it to do really, so I guess it can just stand around.

Also if you found the 3rd city before i'm back, name it Akhrast Korvalain.

[Ellimist]

Are you planning to forward me the save when it comes around?

Maybe we can found a city that uses the 2 sheep(1 shared)? It's hard to say on this map I'll post more when i see it.

[Sciz]

if i'm around when the save comes yeah

otherwise just download it from here:

http://mistbinder.org/pbem6tracker.php

also tech after AH is crafting then mining

[Sciz]

Just played this turn, so you can start playing next turn

nothing new happened

[Ellimist]

Ok.