[SPOILERS] Pindicator as Qin Shi of China - Boring Ol' Vanilla

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Thanks

I was aiming for something in the theme of the myth games journal

But i definitely had Commodore's stories in mind, too. Although I can't promise the same imagery as he seems to have a knack for supplementing his stories with

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Turn 003

As maps go, it wasn't so bad...

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Turn 004

Thought it would be better to go North onto the hill, because I could see through the fog that the tile NE of that was flatland. But I didn't catch that the next over was also grass, otherwise i would have gone to the NE. Anyway, I lose a turn of movemen and gain a little more sight over the water - not a good trade.



This water has me thinking that my plan to bulb Machinery with a Great Scientist is not going to happen. There's too much good stuff in the water to ignore Fishing, and we absolutely want to get a settler on that stone island both for the IC routes and for stone.

So we can still try for a mixed GE/GS at around 50% odds - and if it's a GS then we'll just get an academy going. We can do something even more spectacular and try to build the Oracle, using the gold with our second city and trying to tech Metal Casting so we can grab Machinery with Oracle -- that seems more like a SP ploy than something that would work in MP though. And even if we did pull it off, we'd have a small base with which to build CKNs, so it would not be quite as advantageous.

I think best is to just forget a CKN rush, and develop normally. We can still pick up Metal Casting sooner than normal, simply to take advantage of cheap forges. I am also intrigued with going for a quick Aesthetics, and aiming to build Statue of Zeus. In a game where i want to war a lot this seems like a good investment. I am also considering going Metal Casting after Writing simply to get a quick engineer down and seeing what wonder we can snag with that investment. But with 32 opponents I need to pick one thing and go for it.

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Turn 006

I think I'm failing at scouting early on. Maybe that hut will help remedy things. Could really go with popping a tech.



Really am hoping for some other food around the rice in the east. So far the west is looking pretty bad as for a good 2nd city.

Very possible that BW was not a good choice here. Sure, it gets more hammers, but with things like Pottery and Fishing and Hunting and possibly Mysticism all needed... Well, we'll just have to pop copper in the BFC of Madrigal and make it all worthwhile

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Turn 007



That's a little earlier than I want... Anyway, hello Barry Lynkon! Thank you for making me feel better about my awful scouting; this way I get that hut before you do.

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Turn 008

Barry Lynkon parked his scout on the hill overlooking my capital and decided to wave the white flag of peace. Kind of



I declined and offered a peace treaty. If he wants normal relations then lets start by acting normally.

I don't get this. Wtf could he do to have any reason to want a cease fire instead of a peace treaty. The only thing I can think of is he has a warrior within 10 turns and thinks he can get the drop on me. He's welcome to try, but my scout is heading for the direction his scout came, and I'll spot anything headed my way in time to build defenses. And if he doesn't then he's just annoying. So yeah, Barry Lynkon is the top of my CKN Rush board.

(To be fair, he was already at the top of it by virtue of being the only player we've met so far.)

The other great excitement was getting to pop a hut this turn. I notice some people already have two techs, and here we are not even halfway through Bronze Working. Still, my expectations are low when it comes to the RNG. Just please don't let it be a map and I'll be happy. Please not a map, please not a map, please not a map...

Still on the low end of possible results, but it wasn't a map

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pindicator: For instance, I never would have thought that whipping my first settler in PB18 would turn out so well but I'm glad I checked
Commodore: Yeah, it can be a very good idea
pindicator: It's okay if you put Cooper in my capitals BFC though
Commodore: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130...Cooper.jpg ?
pindicator: Lol, thanks auto correct
Commodore: Hey man, no judgement

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Turn 009

I've been thinking a lot about the techs I'm going to need...



I swear, Commodore, it's like you hand built this map so you couldn't share food with the capital for a good 2nd city.

Also, Barry took peace. He gets to move down the CKN hit list. (Too bad he's still the only one on it.)

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Turn 010

I really hope this was a Hunting/Myst or Agri/Myst civ, for their sake

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How did you get rid of the score list?

war with Lyndon? what?!

Edit: wait. now I clearly remember you telling us about the cease fire. 34 players is so many...