the sea just outside the city was nearer tho! it's freaky. maybe counting the culture he had in that city, which transferred directly over to HammsyWammsy, the lake was closer? no, i have the game up in the background and they could have hopped 2 tiles NE and been on the coast, by an island, outside of the culture. bizarre!
there's also a one tile lake between Bad-Tibira and Eridu (where the fleet was stationed before the split). i'm glad they didn't end up there!
btw, i mentioned that gilgamesh was clever and changed to rep before losing the pyramids. make that, he
tried to change to rep. the info screen actually shows him as in Despotism. i guess once he lost the pyramids he lost his civic too, oopsies

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and now another AI, while trying to fend off some mysterious privateers, is dealing with "defy resolution"

since he didn't want to give up a city that i have more culture in. silly thing. i'm gonna put it up for vote until you give in, face it! and we have OB, i'm spreading the AP religion in more of his cities as we speak, so that he'll suffer even more next time he defies. am i evil or what? i love being a permanoob, i get to try whatever i want to do, whether it's logical or not

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