Who wants to play in a Apolyton civ 4 succession game?

[Theben]

Conquered some barb cities for the instant payoff, and built cottages on flood plains and camps on the eles, which since they were next to a river got the +1 FIN bonus. The new cities have a lot of flood plains so they will be a good economic boost (I think Self did that already). Even so I had to drop the science to 30% at the end of my reign. Once the cities have courthouses and markets the economy & science will rebound.

I tinkered with building "research" in some cities but since those cities lacked infrastructure & we were still #2 in overall science I put it off.

[Dinner]

I think that if we increase our number of workers from eight to 15 we should be able to improve our tiles nicely and really get our cities growing which will no doubt help. We also need to start designating specialist cities.

[Thoth]

We now have 19 workers. However our worker to city ratio still sucks, as I've expanded the empire a bit.

I've got 30 or so more turns to play, plus the write up. Hopefully I should have something posted either later tonight or tomorrow morning.

Teaser: We're about 3 turns from capturing the Jewish holy city and Paris should be ours shortly thereafter.

[Thoth]

Conquered some barb cities for the instant payoff, and built cottages on flood plains and camps on the eles, which since they were next to a river got the +1 FIN bonus. The new cities have a lot of flood plains so they will be a good economic boost (I think Self did that already). Even so I had to drop the science to 30% at the end of my reign. Once the cities have courthouses and markets the economy & science will rebound.

I.

There's nothing wrong with a 30% slider, it's the number of beakers that counts. I'm currently losing 5g/turn at 50%, but we're making 250 or so beakers per turn and that will increase rapidly as our Universities start coming on line. It will get even better once we start building Stock Exchanges.

[Theben]

I realized after Self beat the French the 1st time and captured a city the English would win.

[self biased]

i would have kept going, but the war was so early on that i just couldn't be arsed to throw the required amount of units at the problem without having catapults.

[Thoth]

We're in great shape. I've still got 13 turns to play (wars + micro on 23 cities takes forever) but the last French city is about to fall, and we're 6 turns from taking Replaceable Parts from Liberalism.

(oh, and the Jewish shrine is providing us with 63g per turn. )

[self biased]

jesus. i left you fourteen turns from civil service, and you've jumped nearly to the industrial age in a hundred turns?

[Dinner]

I'm pretty astounded as well. That's a great jump in technological ability. It's great news but totally unexpected. He must have used the money from captured cities to max out research and put specialists to work.

[Thoth]

SB: You also left me with 1700g in the kitty, a Great Priest and most of MoM completed. I cranked the slider to 100%, finished MoM with the help of a couple of chops and burned the GP for a 24 turn golden age early in the round.

Careful tech trading got me MC (I think I got Machinery as well but some of my notes are less than clear ), Philo, Theology, Feudalism and Engineering in trades and I was able to get 5000g or so (at a guess) over the course of the round by selling old tech to backwards AIs to help fund deficit research and pay for a few unit upgrades. I also burned a GS to bulb 5400 beakers off Education (which saved us 19 turns of research).

Captured French cities also netted us around 1500g.

[Theben]

Curious about the eles. Do you have those workers on automated? I can see the merit of switching to watermills for the hammers, espec since it's a military city, but a farm??

After looking at the game, and noting how far behind the next civ is, I'd say victory is assured.






Annnnnd the axeman is still standing.

[Dinner]

Hauptman did say he wanted a turn during a war so maybe he should go next.

[Thoth]

Curious about the eles. Do you have those workers on automated? I can see the merit of switching to watermills for the hammers, espec since it's a military city, but a farm??

Ivory is a resource that I almost never trade, so I generally regard any eles past the first one as "+1 hammer" tiles to be improved based on what the city needs. At the time the farms were built I needed food in the city to grow. The farms are in the process of being replaced by waterwheels. Since it is a military city the +2 commerce didn't factor into my calculations.

And I never automate workers. *shudder*

After looking at the game, and noting how far behind the next civ is, I'd say victory is assured.

We could still loose it to an AP victory (in theory anyway, I haven't checked carefully enough to see if Sal or Sury have enough votes but I would rate this as highly unlikely)

We could also loose to a culture victory, but no one is even close. With all the wars :innocence: none of the AIs have had the time to get the infrastructure in yet. Fred might post a threat if we are too slow, but he's nice and close so he'll be easy to take out if it looks like he might get there.

Annnnnd the axeman is still standing.

??

[Thoth]

Hauptman did say he wanted a turn during a war so maybe he should go next.

Actually, I think we're currently at peace with everyone.

[slnz]

Ivory is a resource that I almost never trade, so I generally regard any eles past the first one as "+1 hammer" tiles to be improved based on what the city needs.

Why is that? When jumbos are obsoleted by Pikes or Rifles and the like the AIs will still pay an arm and a leg for Ivory - at least a luxury resource + ~10gpt. Plus at that point you probably rather have them building jumbos than muskets frex

One of the best trade resources in the game.