Moves Discussion Thread

[Jon Miller]

I think we should increase our science rate to 100

Jon Miller

[Dis]

it looks like the NE is the edge of the island (or peninsula)

so we should move the warrior to the south. (we can use the second warrior to get on top of that mountain and scan the sea for fish/whales)

I agree on raising science rate if it definately speeds up our techs/turn rate.

[Eli]

What about the warrior/settler build options?

Do everyone agree on 21/5? Wittlich, Flash, Beta, please post your opinions.

[Beta]

Eli - see above ... ... 21/5 for me. I think we are going to have open plains to the south that will need a walkabout.

[Dis]

I wasn't sure what you meant by 21/5. But I should be OK with it.

[Eli]

21/5 means the settler after 21 turns with 5 warriors.

The other options are 20/4 and 18/3.

Important note:

When the city grows to size two, the third square will be automaticall chosen by the AI to the cows tile. Whoever plays the turn should remove the cows tile and choose the second forest with game tile.

[Dis]

you don't want the city to grow? we should also think about getting irrigation to that eventually.

[Beta]

Ah yes - the fine debate between improving the capitol or building the roads out to the hinterland. I vote for the roads. To get to a city site 6 tiles away, we will have saved 4 turns which could be used for the new city to be building.

[Beta]

Then again - I've never modelled it - ie the worker stays and improves the city - including irrigation - versus the lost build time at the new site. I still say roads - during the early turns - when settlers are being turned out - the capitol's pop is up and down - and during the down turns, some of the improved tiles don't get used - which for that period anyway - is wasted effort.

I am sure Velocyrix or someone must has quantified or at least discussed this somewhere, but I can't recall this comparison.

Again - my vote is for roads - expand the empire. Oh yes - and connect the luxury while we are at it ..

[Wittlich]

I concur - Concentrate on those roads (and getting the luxury linked up to our empire).

Concerning irrigation, we can irrigate at a later time (when the Capitol is reaching it's maximum population and needs irrigation inorder to grow - which shouldn't be happening any time soon, since we should be concentrating on cranking out those settlers.

[Eli]

I agree.

[Dis]

OK the roads sounds good. We may have to turn our road making to the sough (it is west right now). I'll send updated screenshots if I can gather everyone's e-mail. The juicy sites will probably be to the south. I am sending the warrior south to investigate.

With our warrior coming out in 2 turns I propose that we send him north to uncover the remaining areas left in black. Then we can send him south.

[Eli]

The city should grow in 4 turns IIRC, so we should also consider connecting the incense.

[Dis]

I don't know why that file is so big. And Yahoo won't send a file so big . I was trying to send the screen shot. Well anyways more of the south is opened up. No rivers unfortunately. Lots of plains.

[Eli]

Maybe it's because the file format is BMP? Try to convert it to jpg.