Turn 88, 825 BC

[Shiber]

What about research? What's our decision for this turn - halt or continue?

[DeepO]

okay... I'll leave the long term planning to you ... I thought that because monsoon was building a temple anyway (possibly helped by a forest (2? I forgot)) we would be economicaly better of in the long term with moving it South, keeping the option open. If it hampers Tempest, we can't do it.

DeepO

[Aeson]

We could chop 1 Forest, but Tempest needs the other one in the GA, and we really don't have the Worker turns to spare till about mid GA either. Cash rushing is a possibility though, a Temple doesn't cost us much. We'd need to pull back research for at least 1 turn and not do any upgrading to get the Temple money along with the Aquaduct money for Tempest. We'd probably have to rush a bit of the Temple in Bolderberg anyways.

[DeepO]

well, a temple rushing would be better spent on Monsoon then on Bolderberg, IMHO. Up there, it creates needed culture, and gives access to a whale sooner. We will eventually need culture in both cities, but maybe Bolderberg could traditionaly build a library instead? (after an aquaduct, probably)

[Aeson]

I agree that Monsoon's Temple is a better one to rush. It's also going to cost more. I'd have to check Bolderberg, if it gets6 shields per turn, we don't need to rush the Temple.

[DeepO]

Forgot to mention this: Lego has build 2 new cities since they last talked to us, so they are currently at 10.

And they need to go to anarchy soon, I wouldn't be surprised if they would only make the duration longer by building more cities. Our palace cost increased at 11 cities, maybe duration of anarchy follows the same pattern? Don't know...

DeepO