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**Sullla** · November 17, 2008, 11:52

Part Two: International

Here's a recap of the trading sequence that went down earlier:

- RB traded Archery and Iron Working to PAL in exchange for Alphabet. (This opened up the floodgates of tech trading.)

- PAL traded an Ancient Age tech to Rabbits for Meditation and Priesthood. The most logical guess here based on position on the tech tree and tech costs is Writing.

- RB traded Fishing to Templars in exchange for Mysticism. This sets up the following trade of Sailing (RB) for Polytheism (Tem).

- RB traded Archery and Sailing to Imperio in exchange for Masonry and Meditation.

BIG Winners

Realms Beyond: Gained Alphabet, Mysticism, Polytheism, Meditation, and Masonry. Also traded for Writing on T81. The clear #1 winners in this series of exchanges.

PAL: Gained Archery, Iron Working, Meditation, and Priesthood. Also traded for Sailing and Polytheism on T81. PAL did extremely well, just not quite as strong as RB.

Treading Water

Templars: Gained Fishing and Sailing. Also traded for Writing (?) with PAL on T81. Templars did pretty good, but the techs they got were mostly low-value stuff. Getting locked out of Alphabet prevented them from joining in on the big deals.

Imperio: Gained Archery and Sailing. Better than being left out completely, but locked out of the big trades.

Rabbits: Gained Writing (?). Pretty sad haul here, really starting to fall behind.

Left Out

Banana: The big losers. They were completely locked out of this round of trades, unless they turn up with something PAL needs. (Not likely, unless they turn up with Monotheism! PAL has just about everything cheap already.) Banana ends up with nothing.

Scoring! (beaker value of techs gained)
RB: 1042
PAL: 856
Tem: 371
Imp: 228
Rab: 171
Ban: 0

This was by far the most positive event to take place during the past 10 turns.

Now for some info from Cloak and Dagger:

The GNP chart. Columns read Realms Beyond (green), Templars (yellow), Imperio (blue), PAL (dark yellow), Rabbits (orange), Banana (red), and finally the Average score.

We did pretty well in this category over the past 10 turns. Although the numbers were low (thanks to getting no pre-req bonuses from running zero research), our GNP was actually increasing steadily, from 30 when we initially shut off research on T78, to 40 on T84 right before we turned it back on. We are now amongst the leaders in this stat! The bad news: so is PAL, thanks to their massive overseas trade route income.

Imperio is still holding on, thanks to their ridiculously unfair start, but their lead in this category is narrowing quickly.

Food/Production table. (Food first, then Production.) This is one of the best measures of overall strength in the early game: add together total food + total shields. Our current number is 66, down from a high of 76 when we were running a high shield configuration at the capital. More cities = more power in this analysis.

I don't have a whole lot of comments here aside from the fact that we have indeed started slipping a bit in this measurement. Let's make it our goal to found two new cities before T100.

And the military report (Soldier count). To be honest, my table is somewhat of a mess here, as it's getting increasingly difficult to keep track of the units built by the other teams. I'll try to tidy this up (with mh's help) a little later on.

We still maintain a lead in this category, albeit a narrow one. I can say right now that we're going to LOSE that lead over the next ten turns, as we focus on growth and expansion while other teams continue to build more units. But, unfortunately, that's a gamble we have to take. Our position is not strong enough to do everything at once, so we must sacrifice something.

As always, you can download the latest version of my Excel tables at the following link:

ADG Stats

Finally, my attempt at a dotmap (to match mostly_harmless' from earlier this turn). mh's Dotmap:

Mine (in two parts). South:

North:

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