Seafaring PBEM

[LouLong]

New turn (3600 BC) started.

 

[EliitMees]

sent on to akots

 

[LouLong]

New turn started !

 

[akots]

Played and sent to Dogboy

 

[rcoutme]

3550BC sent to RJ

 

[LouLong]

New turn started

 

[rcoutme]

Have sent the game to Rubberjello. Whoever checked out this map has a cruel sense of humor. I have found another island and still no goodie huts! In addition, the only fish I have found are only accessible if you build a city on a mountaintop (I assume that was not an added feature of this game, right?), so there are all those tempting, yummy fish that will never be eaten!

Edit: After Dogboy's post I thought I should specify: My original start looked pretty good (mostly grass around the capital). To the north and south there are spots to place cities (if I'm careful) so that I could probably have 3 cities on the 'mainland' (when I say 'if I'm careful' I mean that of 9 remaining tiles, 5 of them are mountains, including the ones that block me from getting the fish). On the 'new' island that I discovered, there are 10 tiles. 5 of them are mountains, two are tundra-pine forest, two are hills and one is grassland-pine forest. So it looks like I don't have an unplayable start (although irrigation is going to take a while), but it has been better at times...

 

[LouLong]

Well, all the isalnds surrounding me are mostly marshes. So not much better than you...

Instead of "seafaring", it should have been called "poor lands". :-(

Good we have (or was it a necessity) AP on.

And new turn started.

 

[DogBoy]

Ok, this really is getting funny. Rcoutme sounds like he has mountains, LouLong has marshes (at least that is workable), and I have plains and desert. I'm not sure exatcly how big my island is, but it looks like it will support 3 cities unless that last little bit of land I'm about to uncover extends further than it looks.

 

[Rubberjello]

Well, I have grasslands on my tiny island, but it can barely support 2 cities so I don't count myself ahead by much.
Does *ANYBODY* have any fresh water? (I don't)

 

[DogBoy]

No fresh water here.

 

[akots]

I will not tell you what I have on my island because you all would be jealous.

I have an oasis, a short river and some jungle and even a luxury but mostly plains and desert.

 

[DogBoy]

Guys, I am going on vacation. I will be gone from June 20-23 and from June 26-July 1. Sorry for the delay.

Hopefully when I come back water will magically appear on my island. Fresh water that is...

 

[LouLong]

New turn (3400 BC) started.

 

[DogBoy]

Hi, just a reminder that I'm going on vacation today. I will be back on July 1 or 2. Sorry for the delay and see you when I get back.

 

[EliitMees]

I am going on vacation tomorrow and will be back on 12 July. My apologies for slowing the game down.

 

[rcoutme]

Turn sent to Rubberjello

 

[LouLong]

Pb in the sav I got, it was the same as the previous turn 3450 BC when I should have received 3400 BC resulting in starting 3350 BC. We should restart from where it "missed".

 

[rcoutme]

Lou, are you sure about the dates? I don't see another turn start after post #66 until post #74. P#66 is 3500BC (since my post of #65 is 3550BC), and you don't list any other 'starts' until #74 when you say it is 3400BC. That would mean that you had skipped listing 3450BC for a start. Also, I recall that when downloading the file (just recently) there was no prompt for an overwrite (suggesting that I did not have the 3450BC file before).

 

[LouLong]

I cannot reach EliitMees (holidays) so I just played along. We will see when he comes back but apparently I am the only one who had that problem so it could be a mistake of mine (wonder how though....).