[Spoilers] Mini PBEM tournament, part 1

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

I'm still wondering why Exp and Imp are so high. Exp's 25% on workers isn't going to be great here I feel, the 2 health are good for this difficulty level but not critical, the double granaries is probably going to be amazing and I doubt harbors will be too important. Overall 7 points sounds like a lot for that.

Anyway I'm going to have fun unraveling what you've done with the map. You say you handcrafted it entirely ? That sounds like a long process.

Yeah handcrafted entirely. Had a basic outline in my mind, set that up and then populated it. It's only 40x40 so not really huge, and being flat makes it quite easy to balance as there aren't many ways that it can be balanced! It took about 3 hours in all to build, but if I were more familiar would have been about 2 tops.

Commodore and I were mainly involved in the scoring, based on the map we reckon its all about right. Could be wrong though!

[AdrienIer]

Ok clearly Mali should have been 1 point

I had considered Elizabeth of agri civ and Darius of Germany, I believe those two are really good picks. I'm surprised no one went for Mansa, and I expect someone would have if Mali had been a 1pts civ. But Ind Mali was just too synergetic and efficient.

IMO the next two best 0pts civs are Ethiopia and Mongolia. I think they're not strong enough to make 4/8 people choose them.

Not that I'm complaining about the system or its implementation, just something to keep in mind for future games.

[AdrienIer]

Food everywhere

[AdrienIer]

GE says hi. I'm not sure I agree with his choice to run away before scouting his initial area but at least we met.




Also, the land is still great. Precious metal or other early happiness would be appreciated, but we'll make do.

[AdrienIer]

Apparently all I needed to do was ask nicely, and precious metal appeared

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

First city site?

[AdrienIer]

8 tiles away from my capital ? That would be the most reckless play ever !

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

No as in where is the first city going to go?

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

Currently given map info

[AdrienIer]

With my current limited map info (the new warrior will help, as will the scout when it comes back in 2t) I'm considering the area north of the cap's wheat. Either 2N of the wheat (on the hill) or 1N of that on the jungle.