Chieftess was a little quick on the lock button so I couldn't post a turnchat summary in the instruction thread. Maybe it would be better to do it here
Turnchat 1, 4000BC.
The chat started promptly at the scheduled time, and immediately turned into a discussion on the legality of accepting "changed vote" posts from citizens in a non-public poll. Domestic Leader Noldodan wanted to accept a vote change in the city placement poll, and then break the resulting tie in favor of a move to the East. The poll had a clear winner of moving to the North, except for the attempted changed vote. After a significant discussion, the President was prepared to declare the instruction invalid and follow the evident will of the people embodied in the poll results. Noldodan agreed at that point to follow the poll, and that attempting to use the vote change was not reasonable.
The following 10 turns passed fairly quickly, and exactly according to script. We moved the settler North and started mining the start square. Our capitol [forgot how to spell it, edit this
] was founded in 3950 BC and grew to population 2 very quickly. We produced a warrior which started exploring to the South.
At the end of the scheduled 10 turns, we had a discussion about continuing play. Chief Justice Cyc led the support for stopping at 10, while several people wanted to press on until a settler was produced, or another significant event occurred. The President then checked WOTP in the forums and found that discussion on the matter [edit a link in here] had a slight but noticeable concensus to press on to 15 turns. The decision was made to set a hard stop at 15 turns, or when something significant enough to generate forum discussion appeared.
Two additional turns were then played. Turn 11 revealed gems in the mountains to the south, and calls to stop play were renewed. The available information didn't look like enough to go on for city planning, and we knew that the IBT would include cultural expansion to reveal more of the north. Turn 12 was played, revealing 3 more gems (trade goods!!) and a river to the south, and that the floodplain extends to the east. Play then stopped prior to hitting enter for turn 12, so that if the citizens want to change production in the capitol to a settler that can be done without delay.
) MM'd to give settler in 6.
isn't our next chat tomorrow morning? Where the heck is our Turn Chat Instruction (TCI) thread? Shouldn't the TCIs go up immediately after a chat? How are our Leaders supposed to post Instruction? How are we supposed to judge the content of their Instruction? Isn't this a little bit sneaky, Mr. President?
