[PB61 Spoilers] JesseL's First PB Game

[Charriu]

That's why I settled on using google photos, linked to a personal account I made specifically for RBCiv. The upload process is a little messy but it means I don't have to worry about the images disappearing any time soon.

Nothing is safe in the cloud alone.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-franc...SKBN2B20NU

[The Black Sword]

I don't know if the first turn has rolled yet or not, but I'd have a think about going worker first instead of work boat if you still have the opportunity. A lot of players build a sim for the slow opening turns, a single player game where they match the terrain to what they've discovered. They can then experiment with different openings, see what is better and plan ahead. Given this is a greens game, I don't expect everyone to sim out their opening, but some will.

Anyway, I haven't checked this but my gut instinct is that with a 6 yield wheat to be improved vs only a 4f crabs, worker first usually ends up with a faster opening than workboat.

[JesseL]

Interesting. With the 2F 2H ivory I was thinking on building a workboat and a warrior or another workboat so the city would be size 2 before building a worker. Wouldn't that build the workboat and worker faster than going worker - workboat?

[The Black Sword]

Checking out the 2 options:

Workboat first:
8t workboat 32/30, 16/22f
2t grow 24/22 6/15 warr
8t worker 64/60

Leaving us on 2/24, 10/15 warr after 18t

vs 

10t worker
4t grow on ivory 8/22, 16/30h
wheat improved, work that 3t - 23/22, 25/30
1t to finish workboat 6/24, 30/30

Leaving us on 6/24f, 0/15h warr after 18t. But the wheat is already improved and we also have 3 other worker turns that could be doing something useful(farm corn?).

The wheat is just such a strong tile compared to the crab that it is hard for the workboat to win.

[JesseL]

The worker does seem to be better value to start improving early. I changed to producing a worker first. Starting with a 2F 2H tile is something that does not usually happen in my experience but I am not complaining.

[Charriu]

I moved the scout to scout for sea resources. Settle in place was an easy decision. I started with a work boat and farming.

(I had some trouble adding a picture to this thread as it kept saying my picture file was too big.)

By the way moving your scout that way was a lost turn. In 5 turns your capital pops borders giving you the same visibility. Moving your scout away from the capitol would have been better

[JesseL]

I wanted to make sure there were no sea resources up north that would have caused me to not settle in place.

[JesseL]

Trying to post the next picture but no luck. Even saving the picture as a gif file the lowest size I could get it was 793 kb. The minimum size is 500 kb.

[Charriu]

Some tips.

- Use jpg
- Use a different site like imgur or Dropbox for sharing images
- run your images through https://tinyjpg.com/

[JesseL]

tinyjpg.com worked great.

Turn 3, some more resources to the west.