Recent content by Shaandore

Hello guys, I have picked up more responsibilities recently. I'll try to drop by as frequently as I can and open the save from time to time to voice my opinion, but I won't be able to participate as actively as I did in past SGOTMs. So please skip me unless I am around and say that I can play.

What do you mean we already did this? And why do you think it was/would be a mistake?

One way to look at granary is that it doubles excess food for 60 H. In Washington that would be 6 food at size 2 or 4 food at size 3. The new city gives ~2F1C2H at size 1 for 100H. I think granary has better output/cost ratio. And it takes away that unhealth at size 4 that would again make us...

Based on test save: Are we sure that settler whip and worker whip is the way to go, and all that before granary? I'm not saying it is necessarily bad, just not sure. We really need at least one more worker around the time of settling the new city, I'm fairly sure that worker->settler is...

Hello team, I was away again this weekend, but now I'm back and not going anywhere for a while. Will try to catch up and contribute soon.

Hi! About top 5 cities screen: City Worth = Pop*(0.2*C + F + P + G) where Pop: City population C: Culture accumulated; not the rate F: Food rate P: Production rate G: Gold generated (nor commerce or beakers) ; Via slider,buildings like shrines or specialists So if the wonders...

Looks like I will be able to check in sporadically. But not opening saves until probably tuesday, sorry... Let's focus on settling our second city. We can decide on VCs later. We won't be going for early AP because of the legendary conditions, nor early conquest (rules) so we can safely tech...

Sorry, mixed up, I obviously thought about the normal nations (yeah, Joao and Mongolia looks like best gifting targets)

Our first target shouldn't be that far away, city maintenance would slow us down considerably. For now Joao looks like our best bet... but he as also the best ally we can see for now. This won't be an easy decision.

We are not at war with the minor nations, and those are the ones that we should try to please. I see no chance befriending dr. evil or goldmemeber in the near future. City gift is not a huge investment: it only costs one settler, (100 hammer) and can be done once we have a 3-4 cities and we...

I'm going at noon, so I could check out the save. I think we settled in the right spot. We have room for 4 cities. I would have considered building that cottage 1S because that is easier to share with fish, but I guess it won't matter because we will have another cottage to share in time...

I am talking against myself, but those votes could be interpreted in a different way: 2 of us wants to spend a turn exploring, two of us don't, and Folket is still undecided :p Anyway, I would prefer you don't play that much ahaead and stop before tech choice on turn 5 (IIRC that is the time...

Hello, I'm back until tomorrow evening. Sorry for the silent treatment :p Glad that I didn't miss much. I have some serious computer problems, but luckily my civ laptop is working :) As I said earlier, the biggest disadvantage of the PH spot is lack of food long term. I think that 2 extra...

Both the Ph and the desert spot have the same early potential (well, one hammer difference) because the first ~6 worked tiles are identical. The way I see it: PH + 1 extra early hammer - 2 less FPs ? what is in the fog? Desert + 2 extra FPs - 1 less early hammer If the fog contains neutral...

With our current knowledge the riverside desert looks best. Moving east will give us more FPs, but puts main food in second ring. North and the PH cuts down on FPs for more brown, which is a disaster. So unless there is another food resource nearby we should settle on a). The usual...