Poll: Apolytonia Build Orders

[Bloody Monk]

What should we build in our Capital??

Should we build a settler and reduce to size 11?? This will require jacking luxuries to celebrate back to 12. Doesn't it make more sense to hold on this until the colony cities get to size 3 so they can grow too??

Assuming delivery of Salt van opens a supply slot, I say switch to Caravan and send it out for delivery. Hopefully that delivery will open another slot. In which case, rinse and repeat. If a slot does not open, change to another boat.

I would not recommend Bank or University as I believe we will need to save cash for the many needed Temples and Colosseums.

Monk

[cavebear]

With the colony cities building Settlers, I think we should use Apolytonia to build better things. Caravans are of course good when possible because of the massive trade in the capital. Units (land or sea) useful to provide the colonies (and rehome there) are also good ideas.

I'm not sure we need a 3rd ship, since we can barely produce enough to keep 2 ships travelling with a single item. That might change, though, with rushbuilds.

Getting the Salt to an AI city makes sense even if the gold and beakers are few just to allow a new trade good to become available in Apolytonia.

[Bloody Monk]

Originally posted by cavebear

I'm not sure we need a 3rd ship, since we can barely produce enough to keep 2 ships travelling with a single item. That might change, though, with rushbuilds.

A third ship would be invaluable to map the coasts and gather intelligence.

Monk

[Sparrowhawk]

Hmm, not sure how mutually exclusive your poll choices are, but I am voting to continue with a settler with the caveat that if a slot opens that we build another Caravan, if not I vote we build another settler (I would have voted for "change to caravan" but the option below of "if not change to caravel" had me a little worried that it would be implied if I voted for "change to caravan".

I do like the idea of more boats though, but how about a poll on our southern coast cities (Panama, Two Whales or Cartenna). I would like to see us build a boat in one and explore south of our cities. (and rush that boat, we have the gold, might as well use it...especially since we want to use up our gold before we contact the AI.....soon I hope!).

Edit: And I think we should consider a Granary (though I admit I seldom build them) as rather then building our cities back up with celebrations, we could potentially build it back up after building settlers with a Granary (assuming we stop Xinning, but I will expand on that theory in the other thread on strategy)

[Bloody Monk]

Sparrowhawk,

See the post just before yours. We are on the same wave about South coast exploring by boat.

I think I need to get some feedback on my 13 city map. If we are going to build that many cities, we might want to selectively build a few Colosseum now.

We are getting a goodly number of cities, and I could use some advise on how many polls are usually done in this situation.

Monk

[Hydey]

Build up our navy to help map the worlds coastlines.

[Sparrowhawk]

I have voted for "If slot opens change to camel/caravan" with the caveat that if a slot doesn't open, I vote to stay with Settlers (and if slots are full at any time other then this, to continue with settlers for that matter)