[BTS] SGOTM 26 - Home Slices

[MirrorGuard]

Green light.

Spawn copper or gold or walk the plank.

Decimation!

These are things we can work into our build plans in the next few turnsets

Can't complete 100+ buildings in caste system. Not in my turnset I guess.

 

[WastinTime]

Really?
Good thing we left a forest then.
Will need to baby that thing and turn it into a forest preserve eventually.

Don't forget, IIRC, I calculated that ClamsCity has an amazing (potential) 49hpt with caste-workshops (and sushi). And that's not even in a golden age.
And not counting forge bonus.

 

[LowtherCastle]

PR's score is quite a bit ahead of ours. I don't think it's all attributed to land and earlier cities, is it? Almost 200 difference is a lot.

In this game, without growing the number of cities like in a normal game, I don't expect our score to continue on a steep curve.

So our score is kind of what I was expecting; I'm not sure what PR is doing.

They are some number of turns ahead of us. I am guessing they bulbed philosophy. That gives them an advantage. If we can get it for free that might get us back some of that advantage.

 

[Kaitzilla]

We have unfogged 384 out of 773 land tiles, or 49.68%

Here are the land tile totals we each control or are nearby and in our area.
Humans - 192 Land Tiles including Profit island
Russia - 83 Land Tiles + 1 tile island (so far)
Sitting Bull - 69 Land Tiles (mostly terrible)

Island between Russian and Humans - 21 Land Tiles
Empty Northern Island - 16 Land Tiles
Holy Roman Empire island down south? - 2 Land Tiles (so far)

 

[WastinTime]

Ok,
Green light
Continuing...
T92
Red Light

 

[LowtherCastle]

Ok,
Green light
Continuing...
T92
Red Light

lol wuh hapnd?

Don’t say the mids got completed or you’ll walk 10 planks.

 

[WastinTime]

I'm concerned that even with Alpha we also need the AI to meet.
I've been tracking the scouts and now is the time to Close Borders (if we're ever going to do it)
It also has the side effect of trapping SB's galley and workboat at Clams-SouthEast.
Our scouting wb just cleared SB's land , and our Chariot will teleport home.

Which scenario would you choose:

a) Keep everything in cruise control. There is probably a 90% chance that SB and Peter won't meet until ~T115. Gamble that Peter doesn't take a 3 hour tour around Profit. in which case they could meet T107. Again, gambling he doesn't go back home after that.
Or get really lucky and have SB send a scout wb to meet Peter.

b) Close borders trapping his scout at Clams-SW. They meet T97
There is a 1% chance that Peter could miss the scout and go on a 3 hour tour around Profit, then they'd meet T106-ish.

I hate to close borders, but do we want Gems online T120? and poly, mono, Aes? blah...
All we can get is Monarchy and Alpha before they meet, right?

 

[LowtherCastle]

Have we scouted PP-east?

 

[WastinTime]

Have we scouted PP-east?

Yep, just finished this turn. Nothing there.

 

[LowtherCastle]

What makes you think the SB work boat won’t meet Peter sooner?

 

[LowtherCastle]

Or galley?

 

[WastinTime]

What makes you think the SB work boat won’t meet Peter sooner?

The wb just seemed to have made the decision to go north thru Canal. Did he scout LuxuryIsland yet?
The galley wouldn't go scouting.
-------------------------------
We also have some missing worker actions.
Rex.
Finish the road in the PPP? or just go to 2nd Gems and road that? or pre-chop for Oxford? or?

Cowboy (roads fur T92)
T93?

 

[WastinTime]

Cowboy (roads fur T92)
T93?

Oh, fur need another road at Fur-N

 

[Mitchum]

Will SB re-open borders after they meet. What happens to all of our diplo built up for resource trades? We also lose the TRs.

 

[WastinTime]

I don't think we lose more than 1 coin TR (in Profit.)
Edit: Oops, that was before currency. It's 4 coins I think.

We don't lose resource trades or diplo there.
SB will randomly agree to re-open borders 'some day'.
I think we start the 50 turn counter on OB over at zero when we get OB again.
It'd be nice if we didn't lose the turns we have already. Maybe we dont?

 

[LowtherCastle]

How soon will we even have Alpha?

 

[LowtherCastle]

Pretty sure we lose all OB turns but better to test for certain.

 

[WastinTime]

In case it wasn't clear. I'll pause until everyone weighs in.

 

[LowtherCastle]

The resource turns decay slowly if you don’t have at least one trade, as I recall. So they work better.

 

[Kaitzilla]

OB bonus resets to 0 in both the diplo bonus and turns I think.

SB has a nice tech bonus from OB with us too.

My gut says leave open borders the way it is.