Brick by Brick (Spoiler Alert!)

[TheHumanHydra]

I discovered it was 1/1/6 by looking in-game.

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 4 report:

Not much revealed by the Scout, so I won't post a picture this turn. Mining was discovered at the end of the turn; eight turns till Bronze Working.

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 5 report:

"You have discovered Mining!"



Scouting revealed some Pigs, apparently on an island:

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 6

I found the scores and the Demographics screen interesting this turn, so I thought I'd share them:



Azza's score went up to 40, and Serdoa's to 48. Given the demographics numbers, I strongly suspect Serdoa grew to size 2 off the bat, which is reflected in his Crop Yield, Soldiers, Population, and Approval Rate. Note that if so, he is working two zero-hammers tiles as everyone's Manufactured Goods is still 1 (though someone's was 2 previously). Since he couldn't have built a Worker yet, he is most likely working two three-food resource tiles. He probably planned this out and realized he would get some sort of micro benefit from growing first.

How's that for a bit of C&D? Did I make any mistakes/poor assumptions?

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 7

Scouting:



That lit bit of water is a Fresh Water Lake.

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 8

Scouting:



Eventually I'll have to delete some images from my game report threads so I don't have to buy more Dropbox space, but for now I might as well give you a screenshot every time something interesting is revealed. It might be interesting to follow along in detail while the game's happening, while later a more big-picture summary style with less images (proportionately) will be called for.

Comments have kind of dropped off; hopefully that's because it's American Thanksgiving and not because my thread has become boring! Let me know if there's anything I need to do to make it more interesting, or if it's just a case of waiting until the game state becomes a little more complex.

[Kuro]

It's mostly there's not much to discuss until more scouting is done.

You could use Photobucket, which has too high of a limit to be reached any time soon.

[Catwalk]

Yeah, little to comment on these turns. Feel free to put up a preliminary dotmap or expand/rehash your micro for us to comment on, if you feel energetic and would like a bit more feedback. Your screenshots are quite large, that's bound to take up more space. Which file format are you using? PNG takes up more space than JPG.

[TheHumanHydra]

Okay, good to hear it's not something I said ...

The screenshots appear to be PNG. I can change them to JPG after they're taken, but it doesn't seem to change the file size. Maybe I can search on the Internet for a solution later (I'm writing a paper the next couple days - after that, maybe I'll also post some of the things you suggested to liven it up a bit).

Thanks, guys!

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 9

Scouting revealed something verrry interesting this turn:



In another game we're all probably familiar with Gold sites were placed between players to create conflict. There was a lot of discussion in the planning thread about map size and number of tiles per player, which I didn't really digest because I have no baseline of comparison (I've never counted the number of tiles in my land in a game before!). Given what we know about the number of tiles per player, is this possibly one such conflict-creating site, or is it safely ensconced in our lands?

Here's a zoomed-out image; I may use it to muse about possible city sites later if I have time.



Finally, at the end of the turn the Worker finished! Next turn, on to the Wheat!