Chat turn instructions - May 22

[Shaitan]

Department of Foreign Affairs

Turn 0
Extort from Aztecs. Try Astronomy first. If they don't go for Astronomy, go for Music Theory.
Extort from Babylon. Get 52 gold (their entire treasury).
Turn 4
Sign ROPs with Greece and Rome. Get as much straight cash as possible, then go with gold/turn.
Turn 5
Sign ROPs with India and Iroquois. Get as much straight cash as possible, then go for gold/turn.
Turn 14
If the game goes longer than 14 turns the Peace Treaties must be renegotiated on turn 14. Do not renegotiate with China or Babylon. Renegotiate with the Aztecs only if they have something we want and try to get that as their payment. Negotiate with Greece and Rome by getting as much straight payment on the table first, then add in gold/turn if possible. For the Iroquois and Indians figure our maximum take and then take half of it. Make as much of that as possible as straight payment instead of gold/turn. For Zululand, take half their treasury then negotiate g/t for the balance.

Cultural Assault
The Foreign Affairs budget is being made available to the Culture Department for rushing cultural advances in the new city in Province 5.

 

[donsig]

Fox Nest: univeristy, knight, bank, knight, knight, knight
Eyr: market, harbor, bank
Khatovar: market, granary, bank
Chie: knight, bank, knight
Asyut: temple, market, aqueduct
Lutetia: temple, university, cathedral
Malinalco: market, harbor, bank

Current build is in bold.

 

[donsig]

Macao: university, cathedral, barracks
Justinian: temple, university, cathedral

Helipolis: market, university, university
Alexandria: market, aqueduct, university

Current build is in bold.

 

[donsig]

Please set to 30%/70%/0%

This will give us about 100 gold/turn income and economics in 12 turns.

Lowering the luxury rate will make Philadelphia unhappy but hiring one entertainer for one turn should be enough to keep the people happy since that city's market will be complete in one turn.

 

[crabapple]

New building queues, note Chichago builds first courthouse then temple not the other way around.

PDX: marketplace[c]/ bank/musketman
Washington: courthouse[c]/musketman
Boston: Courthouse[c]/ aqueduct
Miami: Courthouse[c]/harbor
Pherris: University[c]/bank/Courthouse
Port Gisnod: Courthouse[c]/aqueduct/marketplace
Shailonega: aqueduct[c]/courthouse/musketman
New falcons heaven: university[c]/temple/musketman
Chicago: courthouse/temple

EDIT: change workers squares in Miami and Boston so it would allow Miami to grow.

 

[donsig]

Our settler currently in Lutetia should found a city two tiles due west of the Greek city of Rhodes.
When expanded to its two tile radius this new city will include the incense on the hill to the NW and the saltpeter on the mountain to the NE.
This spot is on the river bend. Does anyone know that counts as being on the river, i.e., will it need an aqueduct to grow?

 

[Falcon02]

make sure there is always at least one productive city near core is working on Knights and one on Muskets.

Also, upgrade Pikes to Muskets as it is convient making border cities the priority to receive the upgraded and new muskets.

 

[Justus II]

At this point the culture ministry's priority is to support the preperations at Thebes for the FP, then building up toward our Cultural Assault in the south. Therefore, if needed, we should rush a temple in Thebes (After Marketplace), then look at a library for our new city, then a Temple in Justinian.

BTW, we need articles for the Phoenatican Weekly Standard! Anyone with an article please PM it to me.

 

[Chieftess]

Trade Instructions for this turn chat:

(Note, it's not much, since most nations are very poor right now).

Iroquios (a possibility. They didn't want to give any sizable GPT, though)
Renegotiate:

Incense --> Music Theory, WM, 1 gold (upfront)

Greeks

Renegotiate:

Ivory --> 18 GPT, 16 gold (upfront)

 

[Eklektikos]

Here are the build queues for Asphinxia:

El Amarna - courthouse, temple, marketplace

Callisto - temple, walls, courthouse.

Abydos - courthouse, temple, walls.
Please take the citizen working the ivory tile and one of the ones working the plains and change to an entertainer and a tax collector.

Memphis - musketman, walls, courthouse, temple.
Once city has reached pop 7 please take the two citizens working the ivory tiles and change them into an entertainer and a tax collector (unless this is not enough to cause WLTK day, in which case make them both entertainers)

Thebes - Forbidden Palace.

Byblos - courthouse, temple, barracks

Elephantine - walls, courthouse, temple

 

[Shaitan]

Originally posted by Chieftess
Trade Instructions for this turn chat:

(Note, it's not much, since most nations are very poor right now).

Iroquios (a possibility. They didn't want to give any sizable GPT, though)
Renegotiate:

Incense --> Music Theory, WM, 1 gold (upfront)

Greeks

Renegotiate:

Ivory --> 18 GPT, 16 gold (upfront)

We may be getting Music Theory for free through extorsion.