ALC Game #22 Pre-Game Show: Playing as Saladin

[vicawoo]

Mining plains hills takes a whopping 2 food, which could be used to cottage 2 plains or run a great person. In this case, you have a food excess, one west you're up +10 food to -8 food, so it's ok.

Also, a plain hills city is 2 hammers, so you're getting 2 food and a free hammer, although that's inconsistent reasoning.

 

[Calder]

I'd agree all three of those starts are way too easy for a challenging last Emperor level game. If you're thinking of moving up to Immortal, you'd want to practice with a game where you're coming from behind to win, not be a tech monster and have the game sewn up before the Middle Ages. (It must have been hard to resist that 2nd start!)

 

[Sisiutil]

I'd agree all three of those starts are way too easy for a challenging last Emperor level game. If you're thinking of moving up to Immortal, you'd want to practice with a game where you're coming from behind to win, not be a tech monster and have the game sewn up before the Middle Ages. (It must have been hard to resist that 2nd start!)

Very hard. I'll probably play an off-line game with it.

 

[r_rolo1]

Looks like I missed all the fun...

In my defence, after I sent the starts to S man , I checked them all in the WB ( I haven't done that before )..... None of them is particulary easy ( can't say more without spoiling... and spoilerfest in the pre game thread is ).

If needed I'll get some more starts But @ Sisiutil

Spoiler :

I really think that you should put less continents with that kind of settings... not more than 4

 

[Sisiutil]

Looks like I missed all the fun...

In my defence, after I sent the starts to S man , I checked them all in the WB ( I haven't done that before )..... None of them is particulary easy ( can't say more without spoiling... and spoilerfest in the pre game thread is ).

If needed I'll get some more starts But @ Sisiutil

Spoiler :

I really think that you should put less continents with that kind of settings... not more than 4

Check your PMs.

I don't think someone who's going above and beyond the call of duty to try to appease all the update-hungry ALC fans should need to defend himself. I haven't had anyone generate starts for me before (though I have had starts checked from time to time), so it's my fault for being all persnickety.

 

[Mesousa]

Just generate a start, r_rolo1, go into worldbuilder and delete all resources and forests in a fifteen squares radius around the settler, that should give Sisutil the challenge he's looking for.

 

[r_rolo1]

Too late.. he already has the saves

And

P.S WB isn't necessary for that ( a WB save is , but actual WB usage is not )

 

[Sisiutil]

Just generate a start, r_rolo1, go into worldbuilder and delete all resources and forests in a fifteen squares radius around the settler, that should give Sisutil the challenge he's looking for.

I see that "challenging" and "suicidal" are synonyms in your dictionary.

Thanks to r_rolo1, the game thread for ALC game #22 has now begun. Go to it, gang!

 

[r_rolo1]

Now that S man started the ALC I may say why I think that the previous saves were not as easy as they seem to be ( do not look if you want to try them )

Spoiler :

All of them are very ragged, broken in very small islands and with very few land and the Human has in top 1 AI in pre astro reach

Too bad that S man didn't used them... suicidal = challenge isn't it ?