WB can't prevent you from working tiles
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[Spoilers] Fintourist and Old Harry have nothing to see here
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Thanks Oxy - that info deserves a particularly heroic unit!
If we could kill the WB without cost I'd do it, but its not worth leaving Lunch in the lurch is it? Our unit supply costs might hit the heady heights of 2gpt, but knowing about our border with dtay could be vital...
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
October 11th, 2013, 03:03
(This post was last modified: October 11th, 2013, 03:04 by Old Harry.)
Turn 88
dtay wants to be our friend... I accepted.  How about a city just for the ivory happy? No fresh water, no food, eight forests. No ta. Let's let dtay settle it (to the north east? It would be good for us if he settled a no-food border city wouldn't it?) and trade for ivory when we need it.  mostly_harmless turned his work boat around - so lets be friends with him too! (Except that he's still putting EPs on us.) Slowcheetah didn't notice our contact. I wonder how many EPs we can put on him before he does. I think the bowman from Cannae next turn should head down into the jungle, possibly hanging around the dye or iron to gather XP.  We start a settler in Agincourt while the one in Endor will finish eot89 - everything is on schedule for settling Hastings t92. With this size of accompanying force I'm happy not to declare-peace Suttree again next turn, what do you think?  Lunch is on his way home. I had another look at this island and the indicated tile (or 1S) could make for another good city, except that it can be boated from Slow's city. Perhaps SE of the wheat would be okay, but its only two turns for Slow to hit it too. So we'd only have one good city on the island, which would be hard to defend, being so far from our core... I hope we can find a bunch of good sites elsewhere so that we can come back to conquor this place later. It occcurs to me that Pindicooter's Vikings are going to be a nightmare on this map... I hope they are a long way away.   Demos - we're seventh on power now. That's not farmery at all! (Oh, and unit supply is still 0gpt - I might build some more scouts  )
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
October 11th, 2013, 10:05
(This post was last modified: October 11th, 2013, 10:05 by Fintourist.)
 (October 11th, 2013, 03:03)Old Harry Wrote: dtay wants to be our friend... I accepted.  Quote:How about a city just for the ivory happy? ... I agree with you, let's not try to rush that. With Calendar (& eventually Monarchy) coming in, our luxury resource situation is quite good. Quote:mostly_harmless turned his work boat around - so lets be friends with him too! What a peacefest this is!  Quote:With this size of accompanying force I'm happy not to declare-peace Suttree again next turn, what do you think? Yeah, let's forget that for now. I see more negative than positive consequences. Quote:Lunch is on his way home. I had another look at this island and the indicated tile (or 1S) could make for another good city, except that it can be boated from Slow's city. Perhaps SE of the wheat would be okay, but its only two turns for Slow to hit it too. Lunch coming home means that it will continue scouting the island where France is and maybe help to support settling of City I, right? I don't think we should dream about any other city sites on that northern island expect maybe the one on the desert hill. That wheat resource seems to belong into slowcheetah's second ring and seems pretty unrealistic to me. Quote:It occurs to me that Pindicooter's Vikings are going to be a nightmare on this map... I hope they are a long way away.  Although based on deceiving score they seem to be doing quite good and eventually I also do want to be at the attacking distance of all the strongest opponents.Quote:Demos - we're seventh on power now. That's not farmery at all! (Oh, and unit supply is still 0gpt - I might build some more scouts But the same can't be said about our overall unit costs! Every gpt counts!  (October 11th, 2013, 09:43)TheHumanHydra Wrote: It's turn 88. You're allowed to build military by now. Yeah, but theoretically we do not want a single unit that we don't need/use! On the other hand I admit that missing exactly that one unit is the most expensive practise..  Hey Harry, have you kept our sandbox updated? If not, maybe you can send the latest version you have and I might try to update it during the weekend. I think we have not yet reached the state where we should stop testing, because it's too much work and we have already secured the win! 
(October 11th, 2013, 10:05)Fintourist Wrote:(October 11th, 2013, 03:03)Old Harry Wrote: How about a city just for the ivory happy? ... Just remembered we are allowed war elephants in RBmod - they're just strength 7 instead of 8 I think. (October 11th, 2013, 10:05)Fintourist Wrote: Lunch coming home means that it will continue scouting the island where France is and maybe help to support settling of City I, right? Yep, I think dropping him on the forest NW of France is the best move, then he can go W-W, W-NW or W-SW. (October 11th, 2013, 10:05)Fintourist Wrote: Hey Harry, have you kept our sandbox updated? If not, maybe you can send the latest version you have and I might try to update it during the weekend. I think we have not yet reached the state where we should stop testing, because it's too much work and we have already secured the win! It shouldn't be too far from the save stack (although I think beakers are off, and France has gone differently). I've been meaning to get it back up to date, but haven't got around to it... I'll see if I can dig out the last version I had this evening.
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
So, how better to fill the time we're waiting for the reload than with idle speculation about the "bug":
Commodore, Suttree, Scooter and TBS all logged in after Bacchus. Suttree and TBS both ended turn, so probably not them with the complaint. Commodore was before Scooter and chipped into the tech thread, so its probably him. He just settled his 6th and 7th cities last turn, so he can't have miss-moved another settler. Maybe a unit in a city with a barb approaching got automated and ran away? What other bugs are there? More importantly, I think we know a few things about our two new neighbours, Slowcheetah and Ichabandit:
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
Hmm.. No idea about "the bug", but somehow I have a bad feeling about it. Well, let's trust Brick that he sorts everything.
I actually checked slow's city list in the game, but I can't remember whether it was 5 or 6.  Didn't he lose a city to barbs? I think I wrote about that one weird score drop that happened during the inter-turn.
(October 11th, 2013, 10:05)Fintourist Wrote:(October 11th, 2013, 09:43)TheHumanHydra Wrote: It's turn 88. You're allowed to build military by now. Tell that to me in 45 ...
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