A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier. Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel plans. So, the husband left Minneapolis and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down the following day. The husband checked into the hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an email to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address, and without realizing his error, sent the email.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husbands funeral. He was a minister who was called home to glory following a heart attack. The widow decided to check her email expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted. The widows son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which read:
To: My loving wife
Subject: Ive arrived
Date: April 6, 2006
I know youre surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now and youre allowed to send emails to your loved ones. I just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then. Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.S. sure is freaking hot down here!
Now the set. I cancel the worker's orders with hope that the tree will eventually grow back.
Turn 186 - CS is in, I do a 2 turn revolt into bureaucracy + caste system. I set research to AH. I also settle the GE.
Turn 189 - AH is in. I start pasturing the sheep.
Turn 193 - IW is in. We have iron just outside of the BFC. A merchant is born, who is immediately settled.
Turn 197 - Globe is complete. The sheep is also finished pasturing. I start building the NE but will change it as soon as compass is finished.
Turn 199 - Compass is in. I change production to a harbor (3 turns). I have tentatively set research to machinery --> optics so that we can figure out who's out there.
I didn't see any wonders being built during my set - 1 GP was born abroad. No new religions founded either. I think our wonder denial is working.
Pretty standard, if the next player feels like it, maybe can go for the chichen wonder for denial. We are still missing a scientist for the academy ... hmm.
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Well research is set on Machinery, I think maybe we should change to Philosophy to get a religion so we can go Organised Religion but will leave that for next discussion.
Harbour comes in and gives us 3 much needed health.
National Epic comes in as well. Not much we can build actually. Do we want to start building axes that we can upgrade later? Again, point for discussion. We can't build research yet as we don't have Alphabet. Can't remember whether we want Moai Statues, so Chicken Snitzel it is.
Great event.
Luckily happens same turn as iron hooked up, so worker scoots over to get quarry back up.
Who said we were without an Academy?
I stop here so we can discuss next research goal.
Optics (caravel), Paper (Education), Calendar (spices), Music (free GA), Philosophy (religion) and Alphabet (build research) all seem worthwhile goals. I think Philosophy followed by Monotheism for Organised Religion then Optics.
I would say Calendar first (spice add +1 health with granary, I think), then Paper and Education next, since University will hasten the research of the rest (but may lose Confusion though).
We should really be building wonders instead of building research, so alpha probably is not important at all.
If you don't found a religion, you're not getting one. So delaying Philo could really hurt. Also Philo is on the path to Liberalism. Of course there is always Devine Right, it is dead end tech though. And you guys could always skip religion all together... religion doesn't seem to be nearly as important in this variant.
I would say Calendar first (spice add +1 health with granary, I think), then Paper and Education next, since University will hasten the research of the rest (but may lose Confusion though).
We should really be building wonders instead of building research, so alpha probably is not important at all.
If you don't found a religion, you're not getting one. So delaying Philo could really hurt. Also Philo is on the path to Liberalism. Of course there is always Devine Right, it is dead end tech though. And you guys could always skip religion all together... religion doesn't seem to be nearly as important in this variant.
We don't really need religion in this game.... Dilpo is inexistent and will not be a problem with the Globe on. The only good that religion can bring us is slots for priests.....
Of course that Philo unlocks the A. Wat as well, a wonderful wonder to have.....
I got it. Normally in a OCC game, I beeline for education. Since we have invested turns into Machinery and Compass, then it makes sense to get Optics first.
religion would allow us theocracy, which may be helpful for the initial stages of war. However, it'll become useless as the game goes on so we can definitely skip all of the religion techs in this game too.
I would skip the spices and go straight towards education. The faster we can get Oxford up, the better. Spices will only give us 1 extra health at the moment (we won't get grocers for a while I imagine). 1 health won't speed up growth that much more but Oxford will speed up research a lot.
However, has the Mausoleum been built yet? If not, then we should do calendar and try that. That wonder can be a pain if the AI builds it...
Turn 212...Grow to size 13 and i hire 2 more scientist
215...Optics--->Paper
216...Scientist born
He will bulb Alpabet. I can waste 4 turns researching Alphabet, then bulb Philosophy or research Philosophy and save the scientist for Education. I choose the latter. I put some scientist back in the fields and switch research to Philosophy.
Turn 220...Chicken Pizza comes in...time for caravels. I make 4 in a row and 1 explorer in case we find a hut and can pop Astronomy....its a dream of mine. Ive only done it once my whole civ career. We get a fire at the forge.
223...We founded Philosophy.
225...Caravels meet Suryauarman, Genghis, and Jao. 1 of the caravels takes the Taoist missionary we got from Philo and drops him off at that western Island to serve as a sentry.
228...Paper is in, Education is selected. We pop a Great Merchant who I send out on a trade mission....or did I settle him?...lol
The Great Scientist is left for the next person. He will get us over half of Education and thats my vote. We need Oxford as quick as possible. We dont have Alphabet, so that should be our next path so we can see where we stand on techs. I stopped here, but instead of pressing ESC to save, I pressed enter......so the save for the next person has no units moved. Shot of our city.
Globe view...Jao is further east of Genghis
And this little jewel. This is prolly our first target...Great Lighthouse.
Good...we have a nearby good target. Now we have to get astro and chem to put up a naval stack to wipe out AI cities one by one . Clearly the tech path should be Edu -> Lib ( Astro ) -> Engineering -> Chem. If possible put Natio and Taj next....
In my OCC games, I do try to have a scientist saved just for education. Those turns saved are actually magnified by more turns saved from getting Oxford earlier.
I also agree that Pacifism will be fantastic right now since we dont have an army.
You save only 4 turns. Nothing more. Without the bulb, you will still have Oxford, just 4 turns later. So the question is whether bulbing Education and lose all the beakers from a settled scientist until the next scientist pop is worth it. IMHO, no. I never bulb unless it is critical to get it earlier timing wise: like founding a religion, going for tech trade, racing to a world wonder or racing to for some freebie tech (Liberalism, Economics, Physics, etc). None of the above seems to apply to Education (the Lib race maybe)... but, as I say, its MHO. There maybe something I was ignorant of.
Got it. So everyone agree on a revolt to Pacifism?
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Scientists is merged ...
Hmm ... what is the worker doing at the other end when there is pigs around that needed some doing?
Two turns of revolt, we actually would get the GP 1 turn faster But taht also means Education is 2 turns later ...
And we have our first battle:
"Relay a message to the admiral: We have engaged the Borg."
And we proved the world is round:
And of-course there are contacts being made:
Ending my turnset with another GS merge:
I am building the UnivOfSankore, but I suggest we start University and Oxford as soon as can.
Who is our first target and when are we going to take astronomy? We will have to do a lot of razing this game so I'd like to hold off till cannons/rifles, hopefully still against longbows. As for target, I think Pacal (being financial) is the greatest tech threat.
It's a good thing we got that circuumnavigation bonus - that'll make our war efforts easier. Meanwhile I'll try to get as much map info as possible. Our Caravels rule the seas anyway as no AI has got past Triremes/Galleys yet. Speaking of Triremes, we get an event:
Was one of the shortest ones ever because 2 turns later...
After Education came in I started the University immediately and put research into Alphabet (2 turns). We have to see where the AIs are if we want to decide on the Lib freebie tech. After Alphabet comes in we see this:
Boy, are those guys backwards. The reason is simple: Nobody has Alphabet yet, and therefore no trades ! Our Lib race can hardly be called one as the AI is behind 2 or 3 techs still.
We get a GE. I settle him as there is no wonder of immediate worth out there.
We found Hammurabi and declared. Here is one of his cities, home of the Shewdagon Paya.
On my explorations I found a bigger island inhabited by barbs, and so I dropped our Explorer. Sure enough, he found a hut...
No tech though, only 40 gold.
I researched Lib unto 1 turn left and then changed to Gunpowder. The Taj is in no danger as the AI is miles away from Nationalism. Gunpowder opens up the Chemistry => SciMeth route, if we want to use the Lib tech for a tech on that route.
We get another GS. Settled again.
Here is the tech situation at the end of my 20:
Still no Alphabet for the AI . We may get something really good out of the Liberalism free tech here. Gunpowder comes in 3, Oxford finishes next turn. Then there are 5 turns left on the UoS, a sure bet given that only Joao and Boudica have Paper yet.
Imhotep
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------------------------------------------------ Turn 240 (950 AD) [04-Dec-2007 12:57:47]
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Turn 241 (960 AD) [04-Dec-2007 12:58:51] Caravel promoted: Combat I
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Turn 242 (970 AD) [04-Dec-2007 12:59:44]
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Turn 243 (980 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:00:24] Fox09(China) declares war on Hammurabi(Babylon) Contact made: Babylonian Empire Tech learned: Education
IBT: While defending in Mongolian territory near Beshbalik, Caravel defeats (2.01/3): Mongolian Trireme (Prob Victory: 41.2%) Attitude Change: Hammurabi(Babylon) towards Fox09(China), from 'Cautious' to 'Annoyed' Civics Change: Joao II(Portugal) from 'Barbarism' to 'Vassalage'
Turn 244 (990 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:00:55] Research begun: Liberalism (10 Turns) Research begun: Alphabet (2 Turns) Beijing begins: University (7 turns)
IBT: Civics Change: Genghis Khan(Mongolia) from 'Paganism' to 'Organized Religion'
Turn 247 (1020 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:04:32] Isambard Kingdom Brunel (Great Engineer) born in Beijing
IBT:
Turn 248 (1030 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:04:52]
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Turn 249 (1040 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:06:02]
IBT:
Turn 250 (1050 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:06:36] While attacking in Babylonian territory near Babylon, Caravel defeats (3.00/3): Portuguese Work Boat (Prob Victory: 63.8%) Beijing finishes: University
IBT: Attitude Change: Hammurabi(Babylon) towards Genghis Khan(Mongolia), from 'Annoyed' to 'Cautious' Attitude Change: Joao II(Portugal) towards Hammurabi(Babylon), from 'Pleased' to 'Friendly'
Turn 257 (1120 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:14:20] Beijing grows: 16 Al-Razi (Great Scientist) born in Beijing
IBT: Civics Change: Pacal II(Maya) from 'Organized Religion' to 'Theocracy'
Turn 258 (1130 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:14:59]
IBT: Attitude Change: Genghis Khan(Mongolia) towards Hammurabi(Babylon), from 'Annoyed' to 'Cautious'
Turn 259 (1140 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:16:00] While attacking in Babylonian territory at Eshnunna, Caravel defeats (1.47/3): Babylonian Galley (Prob Victory: 79.3%)
IBT: Attitude Change: Genghis Khan(Mongolia) towards Joao II(Portugal), from 'Pleased' to 'Friendly'
Turn 260 (1150 AD) [04-Dec-2007 13:16:31] Caravel promoted: Combat I
Battle Stats: Units victorious while attacking : 2 Units victorious while defending : 1 Units defeated while attacking : 0 Units defeated while defending : 1
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with grocer. Besides that I agree with all
will not be a problem with the Globe on. The only good that religion can bring us is slots for priests.....
But taht also means Education is 2 turns later ... 
. We may get something really good out of the Liberalism free tech here. Gunpowder comes in 3, Oxford finishes next turn. Then there are 5 turns left on the UoS, a sure bet given that only Joao and Boudica have Paper yet.
