The Quarterdeck - Turn Discussion Thread

[Cornflakes]

M3 still haven't responded to the border plant proposal, not even a 'we don't think that's a good idea.' Mail off an extension to T220?

Let's not stir up trouble with a marginal border plant. We just want to tech in peace right now for some forlorn hope. Mail off extension proposal. You also may want to PM a copy to HitAnyKey as the primary turn player.

I think we should give San Juan the Deer back so that we can two-pop whip things to speed up construction.

This is fine.

[thestick]

Mailed this off to M3:

M3:
We propose an NAP extension until T220.

-The Pirates

Rejuggled the cities according to The Plan:









I put the Merchants in Sale because the GP will spawn there before the one in Ile a Vache, because Sale is before Ile a Vache in the list of cities.

I will be out from the 5th to the 7th, can you cover for me?

[Cornflakes]

yes, I can cover.

[Cornflakes]

Nearly forgot that I was supposed to cover for you ... Ok, I did forget and was just reminded when I came here to post the following

Yep!


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Team Pirates <dg1teampirates@gmail.com> wrote:
M3:
We propose an NAP extension until T220.

-The Pirates

M3 agree to extension of NAP.

[Cornflakes]

GP cities are on schedule. Economics tech came in EOT. We have a bank completing in Barbados for significant gain and we have enough gold in the bank for a turn of 100% so I think we should research this turn and the save gold next turn rather than vice versa.

On that note, what is our next tech? I just selected Liberalism but didn't really think about it.

Santiago had a grassland cottage unworked, so I swapped Melaka from a plains cottage to steal the shared grassland cottage from Santiago. We can transfer this back once Santiago grows, but the swap sped up growth at Melaka by a turn for no cost (effectively swapping a plains cottage for grassland). We want to keep growing Santiago until it can stagnate on as many grassland cottages as possible + 2 plains to be food neutral.

[thestick]

Free Speech is inferior to Bureaucracy at the moment, and that doesn't look like it'll be shifting for a while, so Liberalism can probably wait... I'm internally debating between Steam Power and Steel->Railroads. Levees will be great with our cottaged river cities. Slight lean towards Steam Power.

[Cornflakes]

If heading for RR without need for Cannon immediately, Steam first is ok.

[thestick]

Heh, went to play and saw that you'd already logged in.

[Cornflakes]

I wasn't sure if you were back, so I went ahead and played. GPP plan is on schedule, with Sale's completing EOT. I moved the workers around aimlessly building roads because I couldn't see much else to do with them

I already set up the 3 GPP cities for next turn according to the plan. You can double check them when you go to play T190, but they should already be correct.

NE is a 4-turn build now, but we can speed it a turn with the one remaining forest in the area. It didn't matter whether I chopped this turn or next so I left that for you to decide (it's been pre-chopped 2/3 already). It may even drop 2 turns off ETA but I didn't do the math. Next turn we pop the GA so this may speed up NE as well.




Not sure if this is old news or new news, but Q does have a stack of units hanging out near our border. I don't know whether to take this as a threat or not. In talks with Q in the past he doesn't seem to take NAP's as totally binding so there's room for suspicion. I think we have sufficient force in the area to deal with the current stack, but let's keep our eye on this.

[thestick]

Set research to 0%. Small good news in the plan, we have 2 more food in Sale than planned: