Gaspar and NobleHelium - More Arguments About Buildings & Food.

[scooter]

Looks like that X player learned the hard way to play in the center with your first move.

I don't know, am I the only one who thought this was really funny?

[thestick]

I don't know, am I the only one who thought this was really funny?

I didn't even notice it. It actually is funny.

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the map of Yuri's land makes me sad. I know he had a lot of forest to clear, but there is so much unworked grassland - no farms, cottages, workshops, even roads .

[Merovech]

Ahh, thanks for explaining.

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the map of Yuri's land makes me sad. I know he had a lot of forest to clear, but there is so much unworked grassland - no farms, cottages, workshops, even roads .

or did china do a lot of pillaging in his center that I missed?

[NobleHelium]

We played turn 127.

Very eventful turn, but most of it is bad news.  Still, it's nothing too terrible and nothing that we're really surprised about, or could have done anything about last turn.



Commodore showed up with Scientific Method this turn, which is no surprise really (although Gaspar was very convinced that he would tech Steel first).  We don't really think we can compete for Communism, so we teched Drama this turn.  This is the delayed cost of missing Liberalism - what we missed is Communism, really.  Of course if Commodore mucks around and puts it off we might go for it still.  But I can't imagine him researching SM for any reason other than to get Communism.  It does obsolete the ToA for him after all.



I did a scan of Commodore's territory and found his Oil, or at least one of them.  It's rather dangerously close to davy's border, but that doesn't really matter since they are BFFs until the next life.  Shame that's a new cottage and he doesn't have to bulldoze a town to get it hooked.  You can also see Commodore's big stack in Kusari now, and the Spy is also on three Knights, one of which is a largely unpromoted GG (he did take Morale).  I guess he really doesn't like settling GGs.  Suit yourself, I'll take our seven exp rifles which we can now build in one turn in Caldeum.

davy adopts Theocracy, which might be bad news for Mist which is bad news for us.  Still, he's not remotely close to rifles right now and doesn't have Gunpowder yet.  He also popped a GA probably with that Prophet that he had lying in his capital that we saw quite a few turns ago and neglected to mention.  He also had two Scientists, one of which he used to bulb Education.  I assume he's hung onto the other one, although I would have bulbed Printing Press with it by now (even if he has only seven villages and towns).

Spy discovered, which must be Commodore whom we don't have OB with.  yuris is obviously not spending hammers on spies right now.  Commodore also got a Merchant (duplicate with an earlier one), which is great news for us because it means he can't pop a GA until he gets the Communism Spy.  And that means he won't be infiltrating us with said Spy.  I assume he'll stroll the Merchant into davy's capital for some cash, netting a nice payout because his capital is size 16 unlike our crapital.



And over in the warzone, you see me pretending to be Ulysses S. Grant.  We moved the Knight behind Edirne this turn, which cuts off the reinforcement Longbow. I assume he will dry whip Edirne this turn, so we'll be facing a total of nine Longbows and a Warrior.  I'll probably do some simulations to see how we'll likely fare before deciding to attack or not.  The other force should be able to take Gaziantep, with the two Knights still healing in Stonefort catching up next turn as the slow movers get next to the city.  Commodore also renamed his Chariot the Chariot News Network, so we renamed our Chariot C-SPAN.  I'm not sure if Mist will get it or not.

Next turn we'll found San Antonio Rakkis Crossing, which will contain the site of the Alamo.  The missionary will spread Judaism immediately.  We've constructed a Bank and Market in Cathedral to make our decision to build the Shrine slightly less foolish.

And finally, the Sistine Chapel in action, also known as Operation Pinkify the Pink Dot:





The unfortunate side effect of Sistine is huge GNP inflation, but we'll just have to live with that.  Oh and the huge MFG is davy, who must have fired his specialists for miners to build Universities.  Not sure why he didn't wait on the swap out of OR.

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How does sistine chapel affect inflation? I've never understood how inflation was calculated, anyway.

[NobleHelium]

GNP inflation is not inflation. I just mean that our GNP is increased by a huge amount without increasing our research ability. GNP is typically used to gauge research ability.

Inflation just goes up at a steady rate over the course of the game.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Yeah, Culture counts for GNP, but it's fake GNP, as it doesn't get turned into more useful things like techs or gold.

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oic. It just makes you look more dangerous than you actually are .