[SPOILERS] Novice starts improvising

[novice]

Machinery is in, built my first windmill and queued up three macemen. Hanging Gardens due in 3.

I may adopt Serfdom once I get Feudalism - it's +75% worker speed and +1 hammers from windmills. My land is low on food and full of hills, and I'm a bit short on workers, so it could be a good match. I'm not whipping my cities anyway, and I don't really need Caste System.

[novice]

Pindicator finished the Hanging Gardens, that's a shame. I was looking forward to the extra pop points. At least I will get 132 failgold, and the aqueduct in my capital is not entirely useless since the city was at its health cap.

I removed the Hanging Gardens from my build queue in Mercator when I logged in now (it had 132/300 hammers invested), will that cause issues in collecting the failgold?

[novice]

Picture dump:

[Rowain]

Thanks for the pictures of the different empires. Comparing the city-sizes makes one feel bad for some players.

[novice]

Krill declared war.

On Pindicator.

What to do?

[darrelljs]

What to do?

Take advantage of the situation.

Darrell

[novice]

What to do?

Take advantage of the situation.

Darrell

Very helpful. In the end I remained passive (which may amount to taking advantage of the situation, but probably not). I would have liked to see what happened when Krill played, but my playing window was now and Krill still hadn't played. Pindicator played before me - he adopted slavery but didn't do any whips (he's spiritual).

[zakalwe]

If you want to pick a side, it might be smart to wait a turn or two, anyway. Of course, it could be that Krill just wants to raze a specific city or something, and there won't be any real window of opportunity. So my best advice would be to try to figure out what Krill's goals might be, and try to watch them carefully to see what happens. I wouldn't put it past Krill to declare just because he can, either, not making any offensive moves but just hoping that others will lower their guard as a result.

[novice]

Krill took Pindicator's two border cities towards him and is on a full blown invasion raid. I razed one of the cities he captured.

[flugauto]

Was the razed city empty or did you kill some defenders?