Meditation or Polytheism?
I'm good with going for Polytheism. Especially with the now lowered research costs.
OK, that makes 4-0-1 (Poly-Med-Neutral) so far. That's good enough for me to proceed with Polytheism. I will start the second of the four subsets (~10t each) of my current turn set shortly.
Work Boat Exploration Tasks:
I'd prefer to go down and have a look at the marble site, and then head east.
From marble, you want our first exploring Work Boat to go east toward Victoria, right? Since she visited us earlier than Isabella, she might be closer or her visiting WB may have been her first exploration unit and Isabella's visiting WB may have been her second exploration unit. Maybe, we should think of reasons for our first WB to go east or west. If our WB investigates the Marble area first, I'd prefer it to continue going West toward Isabella, simply to avoid the time it would take to go to the Marble area and come back to the Orleans area.
Kudos to shulec:
And you two are doing an incredible job with microing this start, I'm very impressed
I must give
shulec all the credit really. He did should a great job on the PPP that replacing Meditation with Polytheism was the only significant improvement that I could add.
My PPP Execution Promise:
I promise perfect execution of the revised PPP. After all, I've run the test game enough to have made all the obvious mistakes and a couple glaring mistakes. Practice makes perfect. Also, I ran shulec's test games analyzing each change he made and understanding why he made them. I often do the same type of micromanagement in my own games, so it wasn't that hard for me to understand his changes. My difficulty initially was I made the mistake of assuming all changes would be explicitly stated, but the obvious ones weren't always stated. Also, I didn't have a clear understanding of all his detailed goals, though the major goals where clearly understood.
Encourage Everyone Interested to Run the Revised PPP on the Test Game:
With that said, I encourage everyone to run
shulec's test game and latest PPP, unless micromanagement is something you don't do. Even if you were interested in learning micromanagement,
shulec's PPP is definitely not a good introduction to micromanagement, because there's too much of it and obviously no explanation of why the Tile changes are being made, because its assumed that the player is an experienced micromanagement player.
I'm encouraging everyone to run the revised PPP, because I strongly believe that the best reason to play a SGOTM is to become a better Individual player as well as a better Team player. One of the nicest parts of us all becoming better Individual players is that will help improve our Team play as well. So much so in fact that the other Teams won't know what hit them when we win SGOTM-13. Thirteen is our "lucky" number.
Sun Tzu Wu
That doesn't seem fair as only three members of our team would have played turn sets. 
