2metraninja: hey MZ
MZprox: Heya
2metraninja: whats up?
we have real spring outside
sun is shining, birds are flying
MZprox: yeah it's nice here too
2metraninja: about the game - team happily agree to OB with you, please enter the game and offer it, I will accept it tonight
MZprox: I can't enter now, but i will offer it
2metraninja: or I will offer it tonight and you can log in to accept and move your chariot
yes
MZprox: I1m actually thinking that I might bring up in my team to sell our chariot to you, if you are interested and we can agree on a fair price
2metraninja: oh, we can be interested in that too
you mean once you meet Spaniards?
do you know all the other teams already?
MZprox: Yes we met all of them, but we haven't found the zulu
thing is i1m not sure it's worth it to bring our chariot home especially if we could sell it
we are quite far away from each other, I don't think we will have common borders.. we won't even have border with RB.. unless they take out the Inca
2metraninja: yes, we had figured out how teams are situated way before we met most of them
what you think would be fair price for the chariot once you meet Zulus?
MZprox: it's unfortunate that we couldn't establish trade routes N-S.. we sent work boat expedition, but couldn't get to the other side
well since it's a chariot with two promotions I think the fair price would be around it's hammer cost
MZprox: but this is just my opinion, others in my team might think otherwise..
2metraninja: around hammer cost would be fair price, yes
MZprox: btw I can't really understand why some civs made so many cities especially without courthouses.. how could they keep up research.. we try to keep our maintenance at minimum, but even so it's very high , about 50% of our income
2metraninja: many civs are FIN
MZprox: almost all of them, as we are too
2metraninja: for example the non-FIN HRE had their 10 cities and their economy dropped drastic
ah, my bad, you are Elizabeth, right?
MZprox: yes
2metraninja: yes, so this cant be the reason
we know that RB have the most cities, but they have also the best GNP, so we dont quite see the negative relation between many cities and low GNP
MZprox: when we are both online I would like to do some test if you don't mind. As i told you we found that the maintenance is higher than it was in our test game, so maybe we can compare some numbers
I1m interested in the distance cost, as that's what seems to be too high
we are about to settle a spot 20+ steps from our capital.. now that will expensive
2metraninja: yeah, expensive
we are grouping our cities tight for that reason
a city size 10 only 7-8 tiles diagonally from capitol costs us more than 11 gpt maintenance
MZprox: we have pop1 cities costing more than 6
and we have less cities
2metraninja: hmm.. thats much
2metraninja: I will check in few minutes what our maintenance for a city size1 is
MZprox: distance matters a lot, so we should find a similar size/similar distance city to check
2metraninja: so, 6 tiles diagonally from capitol, city size1 costs us just below 6 gpt
5.90 and the sixth tile is not pure diagonal, but horizontal