[Spoiler] Back on the road, that you can build with workers, again

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T38








Auro grew one of his cities from 2 to 3 and planted 4th city. In addition, he researched Myst i think. Khan researched a tech that I am going to assume is sailing. This is getting very bad for me to be losing to a player who is out expanding me and outteching me.









Graphs show what I expected more or less.

T39








Dalph finally planted his 3rd city and researched something? Maybe writing. Khan grew a city from 2 to 3. Thoth grew his cap to 5 and his 3rd city to 2. As you can see, I am very close to the latter already. A spot on the forested plains hill would be the ideal site for the city but I don't have a good way to keep that tile if he presses culture and it is likely that he grabs the clams first. So I think I have to settle on the desert hill, which can get going when it starts working lighthouse lakes. As for the eastern city, I believe now that I will settle on the A cites, but the western A would be like 6th or 7th city. 5th city is heading to gold and another city will be S of copper to grab the ivory tile. I really want to grow the cap as big as possible in this game.
As to the TGL plan, honestly I don't have a good feeling since no religion has fallen so far. By now I would expect one to fall, which would be a sign that someone is heading to Oracle. I also realized that Thoth could easily win the race if he gets a quick GS from his quick library to bulb Math for chops.

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T40






Saw sight of Thoth's warrior with warrior so moving my forces back to District do avoid an opportunistic raze.
Auro grew a city from 2 to 3, and Thoth grew his cap and 2nd city. The latter already researched writing!

T41






Whipped monument in Movement since simming showed that connecting wheat first helps growth faster than whipping Granary. Thoth's warrior definitely saw my chariot and likely District's borders.
Khan grew his cap and another city to size 4. Thoth grew his 3rd city to size 3 already.

T42






Auro grew his cap and 4th city but whipped one of his other cities down 3 to 2. He also founded Buddhism, which is very surprising since I figured he would try for the TGL. Thoth 3 whipped his cap as well for a settler.

T43






Very dissappointing turn. First of all I realized on this turn that I made a huge micro mistake by chopping the tree where I want the farm instead of chopfarming. This cost 1 worker turn, but I can make it up by cottaging W of District instead of farming it as intended. Maybe this isn't a bad thing because my GNP is really bad? Also a barb warrior is 2S of movement so now I need to whip a chariot to avoid a small chance of losing this city! If I hadn't sent my chariot chasing Thoth
The other big news is that both Khan and Thoth researched an ancient tech and since there was no global power spike, I am guessing the former researched writing and the latter masonry. Looks like my chance of getting the TGL is very slim . I did find a much better spot to build the wonder, which will be at the gold city with the help of at least 6 chops.
Dhalp grew his cap and planted his 4th city. Khan grew his cap.

T44






1st to plant 5th city but seriously crashing my economy. CIV6 UI rant will in a separate post. Seriously wondering what did I do wrong to have my economy be so bad. I can try to salvage this with 1 first growing 1UPT, Districts, and Movement to their happy cap and working cottages. The other plan is the TGL, which I think I can do by T61 with the help of 6 non-math chops, but this extreme plan will make me whip away the gold tile!
Dhalp grew his 2nd city and 3rd city, and Khan grew his cap. BTW no 4th city from Thoth and from culture graphs I am sure he built the library at cap already.
Decided on the axeman at Capital so I can send it to clear the barb camp to W of Movement.

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First actual TGL attempt was worse than I thought EOT64

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Sorry for lack of updates bad PYFT pace really burned me out, but the game is back to 1t/day now.
Been leading CY for a long time now. No one I know settled their 7th city yet.
Thoth oracled Currency. I got OB with him with some gpt thrown in
Khan built the GW and Mids.
Not sure what Dhalp is doing
Auro planted a very bad border city that is annoying. Tempted to raze it but need to focus on playing defensively and chop the TGL out at the border first.
No stone or marble close to me from all the scouting.
After Math, I think I will head to MC and build the Colossus instead of Currency. I would think that the TGL would have fallen by now so maybe other players dont realize how coast heavy the map is or it's just my immediate area that has a lot of water.

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Also I am just going to give the dropbox link for the pictures since its very annoying to create a link for each one. Also linked on 1st post.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4j77ymuhk8twy...Xt5ud70Dza

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My biggest mistake this game was settling fourth city so far out. Should have been at gold. Would have gotten TGL by now and not lose so much gold in upkeep considering that this is a Monarch toroid map with standard size. Had to whip Movement twice now for units because of barbs as well. Now movement can start paying off since it can 3 whip settlers easily but seems like it was slow to payoff. Havent bothered expanding in 10t because of maintenance

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Pictures updated to T62
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4j77ymuhk8twy...Xt5ud70Dza

Noticed that Auro does not have a granary in the 3 cities I scouted so far. He will definitely fall behind. Gold surplus is good but guaranteed to collapse when I plant 4 more cities in the next 8 turns.

So lets talk about civ6 problems
UI: Sullla's PBEM1 thread discusses the problems with the UI in great detail especially the awful city management screen. Also tried playing some civ6 games and sometimes you can attack with the LMB and sometimes you gotta use the RMB? What gives :@
Missionaries: Oh AI religion spam contributing to map clutter. Can't think of a good solution since they cannot act as civilians since apostles do engage in combat as well. Maybe apostles and inquisitors (?) should be treated like military units and missionaries as civilians?

You will have to wait on the discussion of the next problem since I actually got the name of it wrong!

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Got the TGL
Colossus might be out of reach since Thoth got a lot of mid failgold and likely researched MC with it due to big power spike...

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Snapback

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I guess i can forget about the colossus and peaceful expansion since i just saw thoth build HAs. Right now the priority is to not die while i follow him there.