TheViking
The world is not enough
Old n Slow hasn't shown upp yet so it's Duke's turn (unless Kev shows up very soon and has time to play).
Yes, it's all yours. And maybe trouble is just what we need to make the game more challenging, for example about 1000 barbs .Huh? Me again? I thought I was just up a couple of players ago.
Oh well, if you're really looking for trouble...
I haven't looked at the game in a while, but I dare say taking the time for the bigger delivery bonus a bit later is usually more valuable than getting a puny one (Same continent, short distance, no connection) sooner.It's my turn to play .
Nice set of turns but our situation is bad. There's an awful lot of things I want to do but extremely limited resources to do anything major. We really need to expand and found more cities but we also need more roads. I haven't decided what to do, maybe some compromise where three of our five settlers build roads near Rome and the other two settlers found cities.
Also two of our cities can't grow at present which is very bad.
Delivering caravans to our enemies is also important; fortunately we have two of these aboard a caravel. I'll probably send them to the Carthaginians. It takes a lot of time so sending them to the Germans is also an option despite a lower delivery bonus. Hmmm...
Some screenshots would be nice.
It's my turn to play .
Nice set of turns but our situation is bad. There's an awful lot of things I want to do but extremely limited resources to do anything major. We really need to expand and found more cities but we also need more roads. I haven't decided what to do, maybe some compromise where three of our five settlers build roads near Rome and the other two settlers found cities.
Also two of our cities can't grow at present which is very bad.
Delivering caravans to our enemies is also important; fortunately we have two of these aboard a caravel. I'll probably send them to the Carthaginians. It takes a lot of time so sending them to the Germans is also an option despite a lower delivery bonus. Hmmm...
At home I have a spreadsheet where you can enter the relevant parameters and it will calculate the bonus payout for trade deliveries. You will need to enter the trade arrows in the target city but given the size of the city, the AI government, and the surrounding terrain (And your knowledge of the stupid way the AI assigns it's workers) It's usually not that hard to get a pretty close estimate (being off by a few arrows doesn't usually change the payout too much). A few days ago I looked at the possible payouts and I'm pretty sure Berlin would only pay about 60-70g. Anything closer than berlin would likely pay even less. Anything under 100 hardly seems worth it to me, but what do I know?The only problems is that I don't know in advance how much I'll get by delivering to the Germans. At less than 50 gold it's not worth doing in my opinion, 50-100 gold is probably worth doing and 100+ definitely worth doing, at this stage a lot can be done for 100 gold.