New ToT Succession game

[Julius Brenzaida]

400 ad. We disband a few useless warriors in the main continent. Eh, the Aztecs are playing OCC ! The following years, it’s mainly trading and buying of improvement.
480 ad. We discover seafaring and build harbors to let some cities grow.
500 ad. Engineering from hut.
520 ad. 3 mains cities up to size 12, so we set down luxuries to 30%.
540 ad. Invention from hut. City of Fish for Two founded.
560 ad. We discover Banking.
600 ad. Steady Grow is founded.
660 ad. We discover Democracy.
700 ad. We are now a democravy. 50g from hut.
720 ad. First elections and I am ejected from power.

[Julius Brenzaida]

Quiet, all quiet. We’re ahead in technology, and ready to trade a few with the AI. We need medecine/sanitation to make our cities grow. Everything is going smoothly. I disbanded our trireme as we could not explore further with them. Let’s wait for navigation. Internal trade should bring us there quite fast.

[Jawn Henry]

What a time to run out of explosives!!

If you're wondering what i mean in the title, look at my sig-line.

I won't likely be able to participate in the SG, something came up and i don't have any "explosives" to solve it. If it clears up before the end (and if there's room left ) i'll rejoin.

AAAAHHHHHRRRRRRRRGGGHHH!



JH

[LDiCesare]

I am downloading and will play right away. I should post log in a few hours.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

No luck, so I'm pulling out of the game.

Jawn is up, then, after LDiCesare's done.

[LDiCesare]

740AD I rushbuild a trireme. I will use it to explore 2 squares from the coasts. Not very useful, but I wanted to explore something!
Boosting science. Astronomy. -> Medicine. Building caravans to build Copernicus in Mar del Plata.
800 Harbour in Mar del Plata.
840 English build Great Library, Mongols KRC. Medicine ->Sanitation. Lower luxury rate, as we have topped almost everywhere. We'll recelebrate after sanitation.
900 Sanitation -> Navigation.
920 Start building sewers in First Blood.
940 English start Copernicus. River City founded.
960 Navigation -> Physics. Food caravans should help build Magellan. Raising taxes again to rush build sewers/aqueducts/caravans.
980 Small Lake founded.
1000 Mongols start Sun Tzu. Mar del Plata builds Copernicus. English drop it.
1020 I resign. Very calm. Caravans are being built, some aqueducts and sewers. I suggest rushbuying a sewer in Mar del plata next turn and building Magellan in First Blood. Then we can celebrate these two cities. Other cities will need markets and banks to grow. That would probably cost a lot. I rushed science, because I wanted Copernicus I am sure we need Magellan.
I realize belatedly I could have built some boats...


I will step off for a while now, I should be back on july 7.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Hmmm... I know I'll be away a bit on the long weekend, but in the meantime I should be able to d/l and play tomorrow morning. LDiCesare, we'll fit you back in the rotation after Jul 7.

Any newcomers, since we are down to 3 temporarily? If there are, go ahead and post that you're playing ahead of me. Otherwise... I'll post when I start my turns, and the madness shall begin anew with my rule

STYOM

[Julius Brenzaida]

LDiCesare, I had just disbanded the useless triremes. We should wait for galleons and magnetism (no unhappiness) to explore. We faring well all by ourselves and don’t need to expand now. The priority should go to infrastructure (as you said yourself).
Bot of course, it’s only my opinion and the fun of succession games to do or undo between reigns !

[LDiCesare]

I know why you disbanded the triremes, but I wanted to do a bit of exploring because I hadn't had the occasion. That was selfish, but initially I also wanted them to ferry caravans from the island to the continent. These were too slow to get built so I travelled instead.
I think discovering an island might be worth the upkeep cost in case we got lucky in hut-popping with the diplo I put aboard. Magnetism will come after Magellan (hopefully it should get built soon), so the trireme should be able to gain us several turns if there is land near the discovered island. It also shows fish and whales around the island for better city placement.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

D/l'ed and playing now.

STYOM

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

The reign of STYOM the boring.

President STYOM is installed after a narrow recount victory The kingdom is surveyed and all seems well. The Mongols seem to be expanding, and as they are to our west, STYOM determines to settle and hold our Western continent more strongly, while trading and improving the homeland.

1020: Settings left alone for now. Nobody seems to like us What have you all been saying to our foreign friends?

1040: Physics discovered; researching Steam Engine. There are several wonders we could be building... start Magellan, with an eye to pumping Caravans into Special One.

1060: Sewers and Aqueducts rushed.

1080: Silk Hutton>SpecialOne, 63g

1100: Vikings learn Medicine; start Shakespeare. Production in western areas changed to Settlers, mainly.

1120: Steam Engine discovered; starts University.

1140: Failed attempt at diplomacy with the Mongols. Oh, we're now at war with the Celts

1160: Taxes adjusted to 1.2.7 to speed science.

1180: Magellan completed in SpecialOne. University discovered; researching Economics.
Copper SouthernHarbor>FirstBlood 28g

1200: Poseidon'sWrath founded.
Some workers are shifted to Elvi in FirstBlood and MarDelPlata for celebrations.
Vikings are almost done Shakespeare. We have a good shot at getting all the other happy wonders if we want to wage war in Demo... and there's always Fundy as well. STYOM decides not to sell anything in an attempt to rush Shakespeare.

1220: Hot Springs founded.
Vikings finish Shakespeare.

1240: Economics discovered; researching Theory of Gravity.

1260: Nothing much

1280: Same... caravans moving
Mongols are almost finished Sun Tzu.

1300: Tickle cities to keep celebrations running.
Mongols finish Sun Tzu.

1320: Theory of Gravity discovered; researching Chemistry. Since everyone is hostile, and we haven't been building ships waiting for Magnetism, we may have to bite the bullet and research Warrior Code! Unless my successor wants to build a caravel and take several turns to take a diplo to the Vikings... better still, 3 diplos, since the Mongols have several techs and we need Iron Working and Bridge Building, and we are sure to get Masonry and Feudalism
Gems MarDelPlata>FirstBlood 120g

1340: Silk DavyJonesLocker>MarDelPlata 111g
Spice InBetween>SpecialOne, 126g

STYOM retires quietly, this time around... vowing to bring our 'culture' to the world, the next time he takes office.
**
Not much happening! I have tried to tweak our taxes to keep science discoveries happening every 3 turns. It should be faster once we have universities in SpecialOne, FirstBlood and MarDelPlata finishes Isaac. Leos is nearly done in FirstBlood. Adam Smith and SoL are also there for the building.

My successor may want to watch FirstBlood and MarDelPlata closely so no red faces pop up and end the party. Also, I'm positioning the Trireme to the east of our main island, so that when it upgrades from Leo's, it can proceed east into that big black space

Next!

STYOM

[Thoth]

Save downloaded, will play tonight.

Are we going for conquest or AC?

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Thoth
Save downloaded, will play tonight.

Are we going for conquest or AC?

I will be deeply impressed if you can build a spaceship, since the game was started on Bloodlust

I felt Bloodlust added to the challenge given that we are on a BIG map, and the Mongols are gaining rapidly on the PG

STYOM

[Thoth]

Right. Conquest it is. Will play tomorrow, too much beer downloaded tonight.

[Julius Brenzaida]

Originally posted by LDiCesare
I know why you disbanded the triremes, but I wanted to do a bit of exploring because I hadn't had the occasion. That was selfish, but initially I also wanted them to ferry caravans from the island to the continent.

I am sure that it was premature, and it should have waited less than 10 turns for navigation to be discovered. "Mais faute avouée à moitié pardonnée" !
And myself I probably made more mistakes
It's just that this choice of yours was so funny. I wrote that I disbanded the triremes and you rebuild them ! That's what we all like in succession games : we do bad politics as in the real life