[SPOILERS] The Subjuggulator's Mirthful Messiahs (Kuro, Gamzee of Balsegraphs!)

[Kuro]

Thinking on it, maybe then Doc should be Dave(Coolkid with a time theme, Knight of Time...and then he became Doctor Who). IDK about Thoth though, I can't get a feel for his personality. Maybe I'll just make him Eridan.

[Kuro]

Nothing really happened this turn, except I guess my Eye combo once again saw something new.

[Ellimist]

Could you please not cover the mini-map?

[Kuro]

Could you please not cover the mini-map?

Sorry. I pretty much just move it somewhere not in the way. I will try and move it more towards the bottom left.

[Kuro]

I sacrificed a single Warrior to have my Adept be able to kill a Goblin, thus giving it 18 EXP.

EOT, Runes of Kilmorph were founded in enjoyableEvening. I will switch next turn and go to spread the religion at my capital: It should also make us only -2 GPT.

Exploration will take 1T, so I'm going to slot it in before BW. My double Workers can start roading towards City B-3 when the Settler is close to finishing if I do, which saves time and advances our defensive abilities, then BW will come in as we plan to settle our copper.

[Caustic Soda]

Yay for Runes. Hard-working and socially conscious mad clowns, that's us. When you're doing screenshots next, would you care to show off the graphs? Since we've finally met some neighbors, it'd be interesting to see how we compare. In addition, how many beakers do we produce at max research, and how much is -gpt there? At what % do we break even, and how m any beakers do we produce there?

[Kuro]

When the turn comes around, I will take care of all of that.

IIRC, though, we are currently -3 @ 100%. Assuming our research has not changed from the Marble shot(It may), we make 53 BPT.

[Kuro]

So, with this turn in, it's time for me to give Caustic his stuff and assess the game state.

At the start of the turn, Runes is founded...



You can see here that the Thane will arrive in the capital in 2 turns, rectifying my mistake of forgetting to hide Avoid Growth...

GOOD JOB.

Thank you. Our research rate is -3 @ 100%, making 49 beakers per turn with the Adept inspiring our capital. As you can see, I'm going to 1T Exploration before getting BW, which should take 7T-8T, depending on overflow.

Also, I note with the Goblin gone, I can switch to a better hill...which makes our BPT hit 51 @ 100%.

Our breakeven is 90%, which is 47 BPT.

Amusing thing I noted: Our second Worker is actually Mutated, giving it Fire and Lightning resist. SHO USEFUL.

Graphs, as requested...



Score graph. We're actually last by 3, as you could see, so...yeah.



We're actually second in the world in GNP, 57 vs. 1st place's 58. Compared to our late blooming Elf-y neighbor, we're rockin'.



Production is nice and high, although it is more the Elves being bad(You'll see on the demoscreen)



We're #3 in the world with food, with everyone having roughly equal standing.



We're 4th in power, largely because we only need a two-Warrior garrison thanks to floating eyes sniffing out danger ahead of time. Oberon's massive jump is due to getting the Lizardman event: The drop because he lost one at 90%-ish odds on a Spider. I want to keep a Scout on our Workers at all times in case of Spiders.



Culture graph for fun.

But...in more bad-good news...



A barb city popped up over here!

On one hand, that is a beautiful city location to take over: Two Dye, two Rice, Furs, two Pigs and Banana by my count. On the other: How fast can we take it? Should we build up Swordsman and attack it when we get Bronze hooked up? Freaks maybe? IDK...it'll be a pain if it stays there too long...

And yes, that's a single barb Warrior advancing on us. No threat.

EOT, Exploration in, BW is a 7 turn tech. Barb warrior worries me slightly due to possibly going pillaging the Wines: Should I try to meet it on the open field if it moves into it, even if it means losing a Warrior?

Or...should we go Festivals before BW? We're not going to settle our Bronze city in 7 turns...and we can get Festivals in 3T, which means Markets, Freaks and a happiness boost with Carnivals. I actually kind of like going Festivals -> BW -> Education -> CoL or something now...with Freaks, Festivals should be +2 happiness and some good units, plus enough gold to run 100% easilt from Market building.

[Caustic Soda]

All right, looks like our neighbor isn't doing too well, that's good. I think you forgot to include the demographics, though. Or did you mean to imply that you would post it later?

@Festivals: We might as well go for it now, no point going for BW if we can't capitalize on it just yet.

@Barb Warrior: If possible, it may be a good idea to have the barb attack us in the forest. If not, I think we should just risk attacking the barb with some warriors.

@barb city: I don't think that we have the workers to make proper use of this city just yet, so I wouldn't make taking it a priority in the near future. When we do go for it, I would prefer building freaks instead of swordsmen. Freaks have better potential as fighters or buildings, and it shouldn't be too hard to come up with the gold we'd need to upgrade the good ones. If we get some lucky rolls on our freaks, we may even use the units from the city as a way to farm experience until we're ready to conquer it and make it productive.

[Kuro]

Actually...I forgot. I'll go in and take the Demo pictures in a moment(But the reason I said that is because our MFG is actually only 11, but the lowest is 9!)

It will probably be circa 20~ turns until we can settle a city with Bronzes, I think(We need 10T for City B-3's Settler, 2-3 Warriors Escort for ronze-Settler and then to build a Settler, then to travel and settle). So might we want to grab another tech first or just Festivals -> BW?