Nimitz, what are the RPs doing?

[Nimitz]

I'll talk to RP right away I have been unable to use the computer for a little while but I'm back.

[ZargonX]

It is amazing that 3 civs are stuck on 1 continent and we have all of Legoland to ourselves. As stated previously we must REX like crazy, but maintain our defensive army.

I think something is seriously screwed up with the MPs civ-placement randomizer. I was playing a hot-seat game with some friends last night, continents, 60% water, and the map was crazy. I started on the right-side giant contitnent, with 5 other civs. My friend started on the left-side giant continent, completely alone. He had a landmass about double the size of our current one to run wild in. My other friend started on, literally, a 10x15 tundra island ringed with mountains in the far, far corner of the map. There were two grassland spaces on the entire thing. Just thought I'd share that story as an example of how bizzare the system is...

[Sharpe]

This quote somewhat alarms me:

Rumor has it that Lego has a whole continent...

How did they find out that we have an entire continent? Certainly we have been keeping that a closely guarded secret?

I agree with lmtoops - they may be at war now, but as our score grows higher and higher due primarily to our increasing territory - eventually the eastern continent will unite against us.

Thank goodness that in Civ 3 they don't show the first place scores for each category in the Demographics screen like in Civ 2 as our increasing "land size" would betray us - as it is we are #1 now and have been that for most of the game and are very likely to continue to be #1 and since territory is the major component in the score, we will likely be #1 for a long time and thus will have a giant target on our back...

I am guessing that we have no longer than until 1 AD to settle our area. We should be emphasizing REXing and as well as infrastructure. Once one other civ finds us, the word will probably spread about how big our area actually is and will probably lead to war against us. We should be preparing ourselves for that eventuality as well.

My suggestion would be to spread the word around to the other civs that we are starting to have to build cities in less than ideal positions and are having to start clearing jungle. Both of these are true, despite also being exagerations as well. Perhaps that might leave them with the impression that our area isn't as big as it really is.

[Kloreep]

I don't know how the rumor got started, but seeing as we don't have contact with anyone yet, it makes logical sense to think we're on our own continent.

I agree, we need to REX like mad to make sure we get the continent. It would be great if no one was able to establish a foothold in Legoland.

[redstar1]

They know we have our own continent because we just told them........

[Spiffor]

Wow, I didn't even know there was a war going on. I'm curious on whether the RPers will prefer GoW (as per early diplomacy) or if they'll be on the side with the most powerful.

Re the poor civ placement : I think it is a problem in PtW as a whole.

[Tiberius]

I think there is no war yet, but I'm not sure.

[vondrack]

Just spotted this in one of the ISDG threads.

Originally posted by Hot_Enamel
I shall share some info about the GOW team.....
We used our capitals warrior to scout some fogged area behind us....leaving the city undefended for a few rounds.
Lux just happened to choose this time to invade our borders. We had no way of pop rushing a defender, or rushing our warrior back. Lux had us ... we were screwed.
But our negotiators came through and saved the day.

This has happened to me more than once on other PBEM games.

No more than 1 warrior/scout for exploration. The next one is for defense.

It says a lot about what happened. I wonder if GhengisFarb is going to execute the poor guy for leaking such an information.

EDIT: and considering this, there is absolutely no possibility that GoW would be going against Luxes now. If it was the case, Luxes would have already indicated what happened, making GoW look like ungrateful bastards. GoW and LI are after ND, period. Can't be anything else... redstar, you may wish to relay this information to Borc, as he is not able to learn it on his own... the information has been posted in a private ISDG Poly team forum.

[redstar1]

Interesting news... I shall mention it to Borc...

[Tiberius]

Now, what are ND building? Their capital is already size 5. The best guess would be: units. That's a no-brainer. Or barracks and units.

No other big cities in top5, so we can sleep from this point of view, probably no one is building a wonder. The question is: from the other cities, is there any
building a great wonder? I hope not.