IE Minister

[GodKing]

1. If you have ideas about how best to play the game (ie city placement, spacing and so on) are you willing to listen to others and adjust your thinking?

Yes. Others often have different ideas, means and methods for doing things that are just as effective as my ways.

2. If a plan is widely perceived as good, will you place cities where the plan calls for them rather than where you might normally prefer?

Possibly. I will definately listen to what people are saying. A lot will depend on whether the plan would be significantly changed. Also, what are the differences in location. Long term vs short term. All will be considered. If I do decide to go differently, I would discuss and give others the opportunity to persuade me. But the responsibility for placement would fall on me and as such I will make what I feel to be the best decision.

3. Do you support Case Pink and will you place the next two cities where they are called for by the plan?

In general, I do support Case Pink (and what is the historical reference to this name anyway?) I do feel that we need to explore our area and find the frenchies before we commite ourselves to this or any other path. What if the germans are actually closser, are less well protected,and have better land? There are so many if's at this stage that we need to explore and have them answered.

4. What levels of difficulty have you mastered in Civ3 SP?

I play on king where I win 70% of the time.

[GodKing]

I see that both the candidates are very interested in using the land in our proximity to expand into. That lousy jungle, packing city upon city.
Would you be willing to send settlers for some distance if we would find, say grassland on the other side, gazillion light years away.

I think we need to explore a lot more before we place any more cities. I don't have a problem placing our cities over by the grasslands as one day we shall have cities over there. Once the french bow to our obvious superiority their cities will undoubtably be further away. In principal I usually play trying to expand as far away as possible at first to get as much land as possible in the beginning. I usually don't even consider war until I have swordsmen, as I like to focus on developing my cities and roadways at first.

[Kuciwalker]

If we don't implement Case Pink now, then it very likely won't work.

[GodKing]

True, if not implimented soon the probability of success drops dramatically. My big concern is that of the long term success of the locations of red & blue. As they are not proposed being next to the river, I am concerned about the long term health of them. If they are intended as temp cities that once we concure a couple of french cities and have some additional resources, etc. they are to be disbanded, then I can support them. But with their overlap of other cities and the fact that they aren't on the river gives me pause. Also, I am nervous in that there is still so much about our surounding and neighbors that we still do not know.

[Kuciwalker]

There will be no long term succes at all if we don't manage to defeat the French.

[GodKing]

How can you say that. We don't even know where the french are. Yes, eventually they will need to die. PROBABLY they are the closest to us. But we do NOT know that yet. We need to know before.

All I am proposing is some caution. Use the new archers as scouts. Find the fernch and all other close future victims. Move the spearmen to the start position and bring the archers in by different routes to scout even more. Don't focus on the french. there may be other better victims closer. The french will die soon enough. When we are set to build red and blue, come to terms with how and where. If temp cities, place for maximum effect now with the idea they will be disbanded soon. Else look to the future. If we wish to keep blue because it has a some good improvements, make sure it is in a good healthy spot to do so. no infringing on another city, access to the river, etc.

When the cities are this small, as long as we can connect them with roads the corruption shouldn't be to bad (fingers crossed - we should check on this sometime soon).

[Jonny]

Re: A few questions

1. If you have ideas about how best to play the game (ie city placement, spacing and so on) are you willing to listen to others and adjust your thinking?

Yes. After all, one of my main goals is listening to people.

2. If a plan is widely perceived as good, will you place cities where the plan calls for them rather than where you might normally prefer?

Yes. Once again, listening to the people is a #1 concern.

3. Do you support Case Pink and will you place the next two cities where they are called for by the plan?

Absolutely. Case Pink is the best plan out there right now, and it is the best thing to do. I suppport Case Pink 100%.

4. What levels of difficulty have you mastered in Civ3 SP?

On regent I win almost 100% of the time, and I am getting ready to move up to Monarch.

[Jonny]

Originally posted by GodKing
How can you say that. We don't even know where the french are. Yes, eventually they will need to die. PROBABLY they are the closest to us. But we do NOT know that yet. We need to know before.

Yes, we do know where the french are. See the most recent screenshots of what we have explored. They are up in the upper left.