[SPOILERS] Laconic plakonic

[Ceiliazul]

Is that the first time all game for you? It's a good era to be strong!

How long will digesting Bacchus take? What is your plan to win?

[plako]

T212 - Trait comparison time. It is quite a while from previous counting.

Fin 210 cpt
Org 179 gpt
Agr 158 gpt

Financial is really starting to rock. Agr still seems pretty good also economically. I've built very few courthouses. I've 48 cities at the moment.

Distance maintenance is 202 at the moment.

'm far behind in accumulated beakers though. I'm glad that some of it comes from techs I don't need to research.

[plako]

Is that the first time all game for you? It's a good era to be strong!

How long will digesting Bacchus take? What is your plan to win?

Yes this is 1st time. Mackoti did stop building military earlier. Scooter has been #1 for a long time, but now I did catch up so I guess they're also building infra/wealth instead of units.

Bacchus war is over when I get to hit his cat stack. Hopefully in his capital. After that it is just mop up. I suspect that fully finishing him off takes ~10T unless William joins the fight.

Win is no longer in my hands. I need to get lucky. I hope for a peaceful build up phase while the frontrunners would end up fighting, but it does not seem likely at the moment.

[Dhalphir]

That cyan tide keeps swarming over the land. Are you #1 in city count?

[Dhalphir]

What is your plan after taking over Bacchus? Do you plan to roll over WilliamLP while you have a tech advantage, or would you prefer to consolidate and come back in the modern era?

[plako]

Concerning city count I'm probably #1.

I would prefer time of peace after Bacchus war i.e. No war against WilliamLP at this point.

[plako]

I've some extra time so took some screenshots while waiting for Bacchus to play. I've ~50 cities and overall I think I'm closing gap to Scooter as 2nd place player in this game. Scooter is struggling a bit with Lewwyn and lost even a city to him few turns ago. This is not that good news since I would much rather be in 3rd place waiting for top 2 to fight each other. Mackoti's lead is really big at the moment. His golden age just ended and he is making whopping 1500 hammers/turn (I'm at 500). Commodore is doing well also he is making 2300 gpt while I'm at 1500. That means at least 1000 lost beakers/turn when comparing our general science output. I'm glad about this though since it is pretty important that Mackoti can't collect every first to bonus available.

Here is war front


I've just captured the capital and killed most of his units. My main forces are healing up. WillliamLP also joined the fight. Unless he gets too greedy I'll probably let him collect and keep couple of cities that are close to his borders.

War weariness is really something to watch out in these late game encounters. Cities are big and number of troops involved is large. This mod could nerf this maybe a little. I don't fel like I would be losing much in this war yet. My WW is 472 and it is causing 9 unhappy faces in my capital. I tought I was silly building Notre Dame, but it has proven pretty useful.

Diplomacy screen showing wars ongoing. Mackoti converted to Theocracy so I guess he'll be using his hammers to build some military.



Also Defensive pact between dtay and Commodore showing up. I think this feature does not have a place in MP games, but it probably doesn't make a difference even here so whatever.

Power screen showing Scooter's problems and the results of big fights near BAcchus capital



Military advisor. Too few workers. I'm very close to my 5th GG. 2 are still around. I'll probably build up strong production city with Ironworks and West point and after settling those GGs could make Commando units out of the gate.





3rd Golden age coming. Too bad I had to run Artist to make sure I won't duplicate with the merchant or Scientist I already have.

[plako]

Almost forget demographics. I'm now #1 in land also I think Biology was pretty good investment. I've quite a bit pretty barren land and earlers had difficulties growing my cities.

[Dhalphir]

How long will it take to develop your 50 cities to the point where the smaller empires of scooter and mackoti will be behind you?

Why is mackoti's MFG so much higher than yours/everybody else's?

[plako]

We're pretty much equal in size so I can't really say we would start catching up any time soon.

Mackoti has invested on workshops. He is running State Property and also has cheap Factories. He also has Biology to feed even more workshops.

Expansive will prove pretty useful now that he can build Coal plants in his cities.