unclethrill
Why am I up right now?
Give me some time to do a bit more testing okay. Playing today or tomorrow or even the next day won't make much difference in timing but more testing right now will help to refine and maximize the turns.
Sure, no reason to hurry. In case you prefer to reverse our sets, just tell me.Give me some time to do a bit more testing okay. Playing today or tomorrow or even the next day won't make much difference in timing but more testing right now will help to refine and maximize the turns.
Give me some time to do a bit more testing okay. Playing today or tomorrow or even the next day won't make much difference in timing but more testing right now will help to refine and maximize the turns.
To throw a spanner in the works
The biggest downsides of chops early are losing the math bonus, lower health due to no forests and lower production due to less hammers.
But ... if we don't have marble then it is the only way to go. If we do have marble then saving those forests will be important for our post Oracle REX to get 6 or 8 cities quickly.
I will post more later or tomorrow. I have been testing all day but need to compile my results to post.
I would rather that we make an exploring Archer first, rather than 2 warriors. Real barbs don't appear till later on, and the earlier we send out that exploring Archer the better.
I assume that you tested hunting-mining-AH and found that it wasn't as good mining gems before pasturing sheep?
Also: what turn is your Library complete with that start?
It looks pretty solid. I'm nearly done testing a wierd start that focusses entirely on early BW and Academy, at the expense of food. I'm not sure it's any good, but I'll play it through and post it up in detail for consideration.
I'm always up for a risk. Just ask any old "Who Dat" ter's about my crazy bulb-plan in a previous SGOTM (9?). We are competing against people who will kick our butts at micro management. We need a strong, bold overarching plan if we are to overcome all who stand before us! (yeah, I'm a little drunk)...
If you have read my posts, you knew that i've found this is the best path to have an early Academy. Our target is not the library itself, but the Academy.I assume that you tested hunting-mining-AH and found that it wasn't as good mining gems before pasturing sheep?
I forget the exact numbers, but if 3 people are on a team, and they're all producing 100 beakers, the end result is NOT 300 beakers towards the next tech. It's much closer to 100, though it is still greater than 100 beakers. Four people on a 4 person team producing 100 beakers each would be greater than 3. 5 > 4, and soforth.
Anyways, in there somewhere is a division by the number of teammates or a number based on the number of teammates. This means the human can greatly abuse this feature by not killing off one of your opponents teammates, and instead hearding him or her to a horrible spot on the map (hopefully somewhere in the arctic, antarctic, or some bastard city on a 1 square island) so his or her team still suffers from the extra person tech penalty without him or her being able to contribute very much to the team.