SGOTM 14 - One Short Straw

[babybluepants]

I think we're short on tiles. We could use settlers near Mali. Were you planning a switch to Caste?
Edit: xpost - yeah, we're short on those 100c pops...

 

[Dhoomstriker]

If we're short on time at the end, remember that Ctrl + clicking on a City bar [City name + Food + Hammers, etc] on the main screen (getting the City bars to highlight in white), followed by Ctrl + clicking on Build Culture could be a fast way to enable that build item in every City.

 

[babybluepants]

What weer you gonna do with the artist? Can we use it in Mali somehow?

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Since we can't balance our books, we could launch the Golden Age now... not ideal but it might help with the 100 Culture in some Cities? Maybe?

I don't know if doing so would beat a Great Artist.

Does whoever isn't playing have time to test what a Culture Bomb will do to a City in revolt? I.e. Will the Cultural Borders actually expand far or should we only use it in a newly-built City due to the borders potentially only expanding a little bit in a captured City?

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Or else we could just PLAN to resettle a City where we want to Culture Bomb and not worry about what happens when Culture Bombing a City that is in revolt.

 

[babybluepants]

LC,
Try to capture Djenne and culture bomb it? (while also capturing Walata). Getting the GA there seems impossible...

 

[babybluepants]

After you razed the barb cities, what is Gandhi/Monte's pop percentage in the F8 screen?

 

[Dhoomstriker]

I don't know what you're doing for revolts, but if you're still revolting occasionally to get Anarchy, then going into and out of Bureaucracy can work, since we don't care about the costs associated with Bureaucracy... and as long as we're whipping what units we need to whip (such as Settlers), we can switch to Caste System after any whipping when the time comes.

We definitely want to stay in Police State, though.

 

[Dhoomstriker]

If turns are slow-going due to your computer's slow speed, maybe things will be faster if bbp takes over?

 

[babybluepants]

I don't know that we can win this by 1150 AD... We have the troops and upcoming border pops. You must be exhausted, and I'm pretty tired, slightly drunk and slightly out of the loop. I think we just keep taking Malinese cities as fast as possible and wait for the win. We should have it by 1200 AD at the latest, but I think 1170 or so is a more likely date.

Edit: in any case, you should just play it out now. We are 80 minutes from the deadline...

 

[Dhoomstriker]

EDIT: 80 mins it is! I thought it was 20 mins.

 

[babybluepants]

03:00 am PST (California etc)

10 char

 

[LowtherCastle]

You're not going to believe this, but my computer just locked up. Neer happened before.

 

[LowtherCastle]

How much time is left?

 

[babybluepants]

Can you still play?
Have you gone past the 1120 upload?

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Roughly 1 hour remaining according to what AlanH said.

 

[LowtherCastle]

Yes, I played the entire turn, more or less, then it locked up. GOtta redo it because you don't know what I did and I loss some units stupidly.

 

[LowtherCastle]

Anyway, I thought I had 5 mintues left. I was cranking. SO I play this turn again and see what happens.

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Just do your best to reproduce your moves as accurately as possible. If your computer is slow/chunking up, also feel free to ask the partially drunk guy to play... playing drunk is known to work well for some teams.

 

[Dhoomstriker]

If you know how, you can also set rally points for some Cities, such as Cities that are building sacrificial Warriors.

If I recall correctly, you click on a City bar on the main screen (not Ctrl + click since doing so would activate all Cities) and then hold down the shift key while right-clicking with your mouse on top of a non-City square... if it worked, it should produce a yellow circle and newly-created units from said City will auto-move to said yellow-circled square.