Department of Geeks & Numbers

[Nikodemus]

I'll write down some of the speculation I brew up in my head during the meeting today.

F8 screen tells us that our 6 people are 24% of the world population. The Greeks have 20% which translates to 5 citizens, while the other continent has a whopping 14. Since the demographics have us at the second place in population I'm tempted to think that they're divided 8-6, perhaps with Persia having more. Their IND worker pair could have covered quite a bit of land by now, making up for the lack of granary. The populations between the continents would be more even if we hadn't just popped a settler though.

Our economy is only second largest and we just dropped out of the first place in shields for the first time in a while, but that's hopefully just temporary. And more workers are on their way to help that situation.

Hmm, I thought I had more on my mind, but I must've forgotten what it was.

 

[Tubby Rower]

What that tells me is that the other three teams are thinking of spawning settlers out of their 2nd and/or 3rd cities. I couldn't fathom how D'nuts will out grow us.

That's the main reason why I suggested pulling settlers out of Jesterton.

Greece was the 3rd to settle that 3rd city (we were last). We might even be beat to the 4th but after that we'll should be the first unless they are going a crazy farmer's gambit

 

[Tubby Rower]

I think that Niko is a little off on pop size..... probably stacks up like this

• D'nuts - 7 pop (one 3 pop & one 2 pop city & two 1 pop cities) <- couldn't have a second 3 pop since Carpetbomb (TNT) <2 pop> was listed as the 5th best city in the world
• TNT - 7 pop (one 3 pop & two 2 pop cities)
• us - 6 pop (one 4 pop & two 1 pop cities)
• MIA - 5 pop (confirmed in diplomacy) (two 2 pop & one 1 pop)

Other stuff of note

1. we are growing the fastest over all
2. our disease is now 2nd but went up??? maybe someone on the other continent settled on their dyes or whatever other lux develops in the jungle?
3. How in the world are we 3rd in annual income again?? something is screwy with this stat... It doesn't make sense that we were once at 2 and now are only at 1
4. only 1 other civ has more land than we do...I'd guess the nuts since they have had they're 1st settler out a long time ago
5. we are 3rd in shields produced, probably due to the pop drop b/c of the settler and the fact that we are working a FP wheat with Ignoramus

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I think they were a bit surprised to find out we knew how many citizens they had. Great job to the geek department. You guys gave us an edge in the negotiations.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned that we should be careful about what we name our threads here. Anyone perusing 'who's online' can see the title of the thread someone is viewing

mutually exclusive with MIA gives away info

 

[Tubby Rower]

no not really. If you look at someone who is viewing their private forum it'll say "Viewing thread @ such and such time" instead of "Viewing thread Dept. Of G& N @ such and such time". I've been "Stalking" people. not for any good reason, just to see if people are getting ready to play their turn or not.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Maybe cause I was "stalking" one of our team members, it let me see the title?

 

[Tubby Rower]

I'm sorry I hadn't updated the F11 spreadsheet. I feel slightly responsible for the disease. I know that it is a "random" event but since it cam eon my turns I just feel bad about it. But as I was updating the spreadsheet, I realized that if this would have happened to another team, they more than likely would not have been able to recover as quick as we could and can.

What really surprises me is that our productivity just now decreased in rank. last turn it was still first. That tells me that we are not THAT far behind. That granary that we have invested in is paying dividends as we recover from this horrible black plague. Luckily our primitive Center for Disease Control has stemmed the tide and we should be growing from here on out.


Due to Shelbyville never coming back to the surface in the rankings that tells me that D'nuts have been either pulling workers or settlers out of there. I'm not quite sure which since the other continent has more pop than ours. workers will immediately account for the greater number but settlers will grow very quick.

 

[Tubby Rower]

Well TNT is still pulling settlers out of the capital. I expect MIA & D'nuts to follow suit in the next turn or two.

I noticed when playing the game that TNT's score is significantly higher than the other teams
D'nut - 132
TNT - 151
Mia - 129
Us - 126

 

[gmaharriet]

I feel slightly responsible for the disease. I know that it is a "random" event but since it cam eon my turns I just feel bad about it.

Well, if you're going to take the blame for the disease, then you MUST take the credit both for finding beavers and the MIA border.

 

[Whomp]

Maybe we should check the trend on the scores. That is more important. The Russian PBEM we were initially behind and are now exploding past them in score with all 3 players of our players beating their Russian comparable.

 

[Tubby Rower]

Maybe we should check the trend on the scores. That is more important.

I'll work on that over the next day or so.

 

[Butterball]

I noticed when playing the game that TNT's score is significantly higher than the other teams
D'nut - 132
TNT - 151
Mia - 129
Us - 126

Question 1 - On the spread sheed, is the 57 per cent approval rating our rating or the rating for all participants?

Q2 - Is everything below the approval rating our numbers?

If you have covered this eval before please direct me to the the place to find it. Thanks
BB

 

[Whomp]

Approval rating is specific to our citizens. However it's really not an important stat.

The key is to check the F1 screen. We can adjust the smiley face slider (aka lux slider) to make sure the citizens are happy enough. As many happy as sad is the minimum.

IE you need (at least) as many happy citizens as sad citizens where content citizens are neutral to avoid civil disorder in that city.
2 happy/1 content/ 2 sad is fine
but 1 happy/2 content/2 sad is not ( 1 happy and 2 sad will create civil disorder). This would be the time where you use the lux slider to make the citizens in that city happier. The higher you move it the happier they become.

I believe Simpleton requires that slider to be somewhere between 20-30% at the moment depending on city size.

This explains the demographics page...
Check this out for the demographics

 

[Tubby Rower]

Maybe we should check the trend on the scores. That is more important

Ask and you shall receive. My assumption is that D'nuts are ahead in territory and TNT is ahead in pop

 

[Whomp]

That is sweet Tubs!

If we placed our dyes settler our numbers would be even better. I like the trend and once that factory is up and running we'll be in great shape!


err...I must lead the league in new nicknames. Whompus Maximus Nice. I've used "cattawhomp" in some sg's if any one needs to use it.

 

[Tubby Rower]

If we placed our dyes settler our numbers would be even better. I like the trend and once that factory is up and running we'll be in great shape!

If you'll notice that we've been closing in on both MIA & D'Nuts. The fact that TNT is so big compared to D'nut we might want to side with them on the the other continent. Our partner CANNOT (empasis added )lose the war over there. If they do then it'll be 2 on 1 in the late Middle Ages.

 

[Tubby Rower]

Well we're getting back on track. Here are the numbers from turn 34

 

[Daghdha]

Here comes #'s 4 the geeks

 

[Nikodemus]

I'll have to ask the obvious question: How did we move up to first place in land area without settling anything? Is there any other way than someone else losing a town?