No Science Succession: Revenge of the Space Luddites

[Vlad Antlerkov]

If there are no objections, I'll play after Hydey is done (seeing as I missed my turn earlier).

[Hydey]

660 AD Hydey is named consol

680 AD Embassy with Persians, Bee makes wool van, Persians build Great wall in Persepolis

700 AD Rourkes Drift builds temple as does Cambridge

720 AD Hargraves builds beads van

740 AD Paulong builds settlers, Persians develop construction

760 AD Discover Engineering
Pop hut (11,85) 50 gold

780 AD Silver to Hargreaves 94 gold

820 AD Rocket builds temple as does Stephenson, Edinbough builds settlers, Eye builds silk van, Newcomen builds silver van
Population over 4,000,000

2000+ gold in the bank ready for a spending spree

[Hydey]

I'm done Vlad

zipped for the bunny

[Scouse Gits]

How did your finals go, Vlad?

I'm sure there will be no objection to you leaping in to get your turn back...

Nice turns Hydey - 2000 gold!!!! A white goods spree I think...

SG[1]

[-Jrabbit]

Hey Wait!

bunny bounces back to the sxn hutch...
Like Vlad, missed a turn.
Will return at such time as The Institute deems appropriate.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

They went well, except Latin. (Of course, I'd say there's a good chance that the rest of the class also did awful on that test.)

2000 gold? I'll remember not to spend it all in one place. (Let's see if I remember that Wonders CAN be rushed in Civ II...)

I should have it played by 1800 ET. Seriously.

[-Jrabbit]

If you can post by then, Vlad, I can d/l right away and try to get after it tonight.

Would be great to keep this moving fwd!

[Vlad Antlerkov]

840 AD: Stultus arises to power in the realm of the Space Luddites. ()

860 AD, preturn: Sioux build Sun Tzu's (damn). Iron Duke switched to KRC.

880 AD: Barbs land south of Eye. Embassy established with Sioux. They've got around 900 gp, and are researching Astronomy.

900 AD; Rourke's Drift taken by barbs. Not knowing how to properly Xin, I accidentally let a few cities starve. Switched those cities of Xinning, now got a few cities in Xinning mode.

920 AD: Economics discovered. Now researching Sanitation. We... might be able to use a bigger Xinning cushion. Another barb landing, this one within the city radius of Eye. Walls immediately rushbuilt in Eye.

960 AD: Caravan shuffling.

980 AD: Handing off early (I've done enough damage by my ignorance, IMHO).

The moral of my turn? Don't play if you don't have a freaking clue what you're doing!

Save is attached.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

For JRabbit.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Revised play list. Thanks to SCG for permitting our absentees to jump back in.

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man
1. obiwan18
2. SG(2)
3. Hydey
4. Vlad Antlerkov
5. Jrabbit
6. SCG
7. STYOM
8. SG[1]
9. Bloody Monk
10. La Fayette

Play 10 turns... but we may want to drop to 8 soon.

[-Jrabbit]

Originally posted by Vlad Antlerkov
For JRabbit.

Downloaded and emailed to home system. Plan on examination tonight, play tomorrow.

Must admit I'm a bit bummed to see that Vlad and I have been pushed down in the order.
When I left, I thought the plan was for obiwan to jump in, then Vlad then me, then back to normal rotation.

Early players were taking 20 turns, now prepping to go to 8 -- and I haven't even played yet.

Whatever, and Oh well...

[Bloody Monk]

Floppy, long-eared one,

The first turns had a lot of clickthru turns so twenty wasn't so many. I don't think anyone will mind if you play your first turn for as long as you feel is just. This will be a long game I think.

Just play.

Monk

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit

Downloaded and emailed to home system. Plan on examination tonight, play tomorrow.

Must admit I'm a bit bummed to see that Vlad and I have been pushed down in the order.
When I left, I thought the plan was for obiwan to jump in, then Vlad then me, then back to normal rotation.

Early players were taking 20 turns, now prepping to go to 8 -- and I haven't even played yet.

Whatever, and Oh well...

Sorry

But then, succession games are kind of fluid in their nature... I missed my 2nd turn altogether in the Seriously Tricky Disney game

And anyway... we were down to 12 turns/player after the first 2 had played 20

So play 12, or 10, or 8, as you choose. Vlad dropped to 8 on his own initiative, I think... since I hadn't updated by the time he had posted.

[La Fayette]

deleted by LF (peace and love)

[Bloody Monk]

Beware the latest save. Bomb Alert!!!

There are cities set to Xin with zero food. Make sure any city that is set to Xin has at least one food in the box. Otherwise, the city starves.

Also, I think SG(2) is correct in his earlier suggestion not to Xin in Arkwright. It is our primary source of ongoing cash and we have big investments (in white goods) to make that so.

I'll let others comment on building Wonders a turn at a time out in the wilderness, where no help can come from our other cities. But this point needs making, I think. When the AI builds a Wonder we are working on, it is prefectly okay to ignore the constant nag screens and continue with that wonder, until a wonder tech is discovered for something we really want. King Richard will expire relatively quickly and switching to it could trap us into building something we don't really want. All of this can be avoided by not starting a Wonder at all. Build camels and collect them until the Wonder can be built all at once.

Perhaps Hydey can explain how this wonder was lost. Did there not come a warning that the Souix were nearly finished building SunTzu?? And was there not plenty of cash on hand to buy it out from under them?? Telling the next player that you have left him lots of gold is less important than not mentioning the urgency of using it now, before hitting "enter". Or just buying it yourself to avoid the slip-up.

Is it a lesson or just a rant?? Where is the Institute??

All of this offered for future reference, as needed.

Monk