O Sole Mio Succession Game

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Oh LaFayette - you mean the perimeter (more commonly 'circumpherence' in English) of a circle with a diameter of one.

Stu - remembering that he was once a mathematician

I am no mathematician

Nevertheless, please be so kind as to suppose that I haven't completely forgotten yet that the circumpherence of a circle is twice pi *radius

[rjmatsleepers]

I believe that the legislators of one Southern State thought that it was irrational for Pi to have so many figures, so they passed a law making Pi equal to 3.

RJM at Sleeper's

[Straybow]

(if you count the number of letters of each word, this gives you: 3.1415926535 )

I'm missing a word, or something…
In English, a contraction like "j'aime" is counted as one word… but you froggies can do what you want.

[duke o' york]

If, as I'm sure you all will in your long and happy lives, you ever come to write a French essay at a British university, then you will find that for word-count purposes "J'aime" counts as only one word. Cul-de-sac is also not three but one.

Anyways, whose turn is it?

[Old n Slow]

Play List

1. Old n Slow
2. SG [1]
3. La Fayette
4. STYOM
5. Cyrion
6. DaveV
7. JRabbit
8. Julius Brenzaida (has the save & is in process)
9. Straybow
10. Zenon

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Straybow
but you froggies can do what you want.

... and that is precisely what we do anytime we manage to
(I grant you that the results are not always on the same level as the hopes )

[Julius Brenzaida]

Originally posted by Elephant
And it's very cold... in space...
- Khan, Star Trek 2

And in space, no one will hear you screaming

- from one of the Alien movies, I believe

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Cul-de-sac is also not three but one.

Though there were 3 main characters in the movie 'cul-de-sac' that I enjoyed so much that I viewed it three times in a row (among whom Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve's sister, who died in a car crash a few weeks later ).

[Julius Brenzaida]

Quick update ...
To say I haven't been able to play my turns yet ...
It will be done by the end of the week
It shouldn't take too long I guess with only one city

[Straybow]

We need a play list at the top of the page

[Updated 22-11-03]

1. Old n Slow
2. SG [1]
3. La Fayette
4. STYOM
5. Cyrion
6. DaveV
7. JRabbit
8. Julius Brenzaida
9. Straybow done!
10. Zenon

[Julius Brenzaida]

400 O Sole Mio celebrating but in Monarchy and at size 6. And we have an aqueduc ... let's wait for the next Oedo year.
420-440 We meet the Mongols in the North. They ask tribute. As they do not look strong, we refuse and they declare war and kill our legion. Revolution !
460 Republic, but we can't celebrate because we got both an archer and a trireme out. I don't want to disband thanks to the Mongol threat I've just created. Archer shall come home.
480-500 Japanese acquire polytheism from the Mongols.
520 Japanese declare war to the Russians. Looks like we got a lot of friendly neighbors !!! OSM builds harbor, archer is back home and we celebrate !
540 Barbarians land west of OSM. Japanese ask for 500 gold tribute ! we refuse and we're at war. They lose an unit. We kill another chariot and make a strategical retreat with our precious none units. Looks like the road to japan will never be finished. Caravans shall be rushbuild to pay later a lower tribute to japanase and the re-cash in yet later (I hope your following me).
560 Other barbarians land at the same spot. Luckily, it is quite far from us and they're all archers : we can see them coming. On the other hand forget about the leader's ransom ! We can't celebrate past size 7, why ??? Our lone temple is not enough !
580 Hides caravan in OSM. I decide to let the caravans in town to let my successor choose if he want trade or a wonder. We kill mongol cavalry.
600 Barbarians attack Japs. They're on our west too !
620 OSM builds coliseum, celebrates again. We discover Mathematics. What's next ? Another mistake I guess. I choose medecine, as Japs have astronomy and polytheism. Maybe we can exchange later.
640 Mongol archer killed. I don't remember how many turns I was supposed to play, but I think I've done enough damage to make this one really challenging ...

[Julius Brenzaida]

My reign shall be called the Republican mistake.
Basically, I went for republic for very small gain (but it should begin to pay soon, at least I am hopeful), and I've been to war with 2 civs. Great for OCC !!!
Science is now down to 12 turns (self mockery). Oh yes, and I didn't know what to do with the trireme : shall it explore west or bring trade to japs ???
Before leaving for the Stricky Mouse Institute and some lonely, faraway and very cold island, I put the save.
"Robust" constructivism would be soft indeed.

[Scouse Gits]

LOL - Poor Julius - the world isn't really out to get you - it just seems that way

Stu

[Elephant]

Have you ever noticed: when the Human player is at war a lot, the AI civs seem to follow suit with each other? If you make peace with all of them, they calm down and start those "Paris Mutual Defence Alliances" against you.

Julius: A city in Deity cannot celebrate beyond size 7 with only a Temple. No matter how much trade you turn to Luxuries, there will still be one red face to kill the celebration. Colosseum, Cathedral/Mikes or Shakes is needed to pacify the extra citizen for further celebration.

[Julius Brenzaida]

Originally posted by Elephant
Julius: A city in Deity cannot celebrate beyond size 7 with only a Temple. No matter how much trade you turn to Luxuries, there will still be one red face to kill the celebration. Colosseum, Cathedral/Mikes or Shakes is needed to pacify the extra citizen for further celebration.

At least, I finally bought the coliseum.
With the size grow, it shall pay off in the long run