AH ... its time for me to give a tutorial to the Conference de Academia again ... but I have not prepared anything!
Let's see ... how about we talk about trade?
Trading 101
I asked Mansa for a technology exchange, here is what he offered.
Hmmm ... construction? But we are researching that.
Let's swap that with Horseback Riding ... its actually cheaper than Construction ... no???
Hmm ... Okay, Let's get construction and 160gold ...
No.
Hmm .. how about 100 gold.
No.
Geez ... obstinate old fool. 50 gold?
No.
20g?
NO.
Ok, you win, I give up!
10 gold it is.
Let's check Roosy next ...
Hmm ... he only has Calendar to offer. I looked around, and saw no calendar resources in our land ... so calendar is not only not helpful, it will actually harm us by obseleting our Obelisks. Calendar should only be taken just before we wanted Astronomy (if we really need it).
Nah. no trade for you.
Ok, next trade ... er ... actually, there is no more trade.
But here is the situation at the end of my turnset:
As you can see, we are almost completing research of Paper. That should opens up more trade. Apparently, Mansa is now ready to trade us
Heh heh, let's see, why don't we move on to religion?
Religion 101
I completed the first phase of our plan (the new one, since the Taoism-In-Unity-plan has gone down the drain with Mansa founding Christianity) -- spreading Taoism throughout the Chinese Empire. In fact, one more Taoist Miss is almost ready to convert any new city that we will eventually found or capture.
I have also constructed a temple (actually its more like whipped) in the holy city. If the team thinks its worth it, what we can do is to have some priest set up there to generate GProphet points. IMHO, not worth it. Not only will that take ages, it also push back our scientist.
Next player may proceed with the plan of spreading Christianity ... one good thing abt OR is we get to build missionaries without needed a Monastry.
Okay, that pretty much cover religions ... what should I talk abt next??
Hmm ... this is one of the quietest turnset that i am having trouble finding tutorial materials!!!
City Naming 101
Ok, we found our latest city ...
Huh??? Beijing? I thought we already had a Beijing!!!
Okay, I see, Beijing was renamed Ptah, and now the computer wantrs another Beijing?
Nah, that will confuses the hell out of people ... I renamed it to Tianjin, as I think that's the next city name in line.
We also had a change in name for Shanghai:
Its now known as Socrates ... in honor of the Academy founded by Socrates.
Adminsitrivia -- For lack of a better name ...
Here is the world:
As you can see, the barb infestation is still there. But I have an elephant, a few axes there. I also have a cataoult joining there shortly (in case the barbs produce another defender in the city).
The barbie had, at one point, 4 archers in that city, but they foolishly suicided one into our axe. And then, I got tired of waiting for reinforcement (axes has a low low odds of 20+%, so don't waste axes there.), so I charged the elephant in and killed one more archer. The elephant is now ready for another promotion, suggest the next player do so to hasten its recovery.
Oh, I have also started a settler (should finish soon) in Guanzhou. Suggested site would be one that grabs us the rice and horse, or one that grabs us the iron, rice and beavers. I pulled the archer near Roosy's border in advance to head towards the site.
The fishing boats is sleeping with the galley at the fishing site ... as sson as Tianjin's border popped (I have spread Taoism to Tianjin, so it should occur soonish), you can get the fish on-line.
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I'll have more comments when I get a chance to look at the save later.
and he didn't add it to his signature ![[pissed]](/images/smilies/pissed.gif "Pissed [pissed]")
... I had to dig back to Page 4, where on 6/21 he indicated he'd be gone for more than a week, so that puts me up again.
... I don't like it at all. I'm going to raze it ... it was suggested we get a city that has Iron, Beavers, and the Rice ... but there's a city-spot on the river that gets 2 beavers, the iron, and sheep. I'm going to settle there. It'll also give us the ability to still build a city (after we have good economy going) to grab the rice and horses in the BFC.
(I'm not attacking the Barb city until it's less likely to kill our troops to do so).
