Term 3 - Domestic Department - Order from Chaos

[Eklektikos]

Donsig, I apologise for my lack of action regarding your poll demand. I will have it up tomorrow evening (GMT) without fail.

 

[Shaitan]

We saved off the game and closed up as soon as the turn had gone through its automatics. I've just had the opportunity to analyze the save and a horrible thing has occured. The Americans have founded a city (Denver) immediately above OUR northern iron source! This demands immediate attention. I move that the next city (from the settler/spear pair outside Kuhkaff) be placed one two tiles from Valhalla to the north and northwest (tundra square). A library must be built there ASAP to reclaim our iron.

 

[FionnMcCumhall]

kill the americans for encroching on our lands!

 

[GenMarshall]

they snuck right behind us. They will pay for there Sneekyness.

 

[FortyJ]

Originally posted by Shaitan
I move that the next city (from the settler/spear pair outside Kuhkaff) be placed one two tiles from Valhalla to the north and northwest (tundra square). A library must be built there ASAP to reclaim our iron.

I would support this proposal. We currently consider America as Rivals and as such, we should definitely challenge (albeit peacefully) their claim to our northern lands.

 

[donsig]

Can we please have another poll or two about city placement? We have a settler /spear pair in the south (in Ek?) and I think it should go south towards the Jungle River and those dyes. We need to move in that direction to hold off the Indians. I am quite willing to change Ek from library to settler. This would give us another settler in 4 turns. This settler could then settle the hills by the incense. It may even be able to do so safely while unescorted.

 

[Shaitan]

I agree with donsig's plan. If Bremershaven pumps out a spear that settler will only be unescorted for a turn and it's well inside our territory so shouldn't be a problem at all.

 

[Falcon02]

Does this mean I can crush the Yanks instead of the Japs? I never did like Abe (in Civ III at least ).

 

[Cyc]

Because of a discussion in the New City Placement thread in the Citizen's sub-forum, an informational/discussion thread has been started at this link to the citizen's sub-forum. There is a map and explaination of a redirect for the Settler/Spear combo in Eklektochtitlan to the Dyes in the South. The Dye city has not yet been polled, but should be soon. The Dye city will be placed outside any known Province and will fall under control of the Domestic Department. This new city placement (if approved) should start discussion on a new Province to the South.

 

[Eklektikos]

Now working on Donsig's poll...

 

[Strider]

Science Resignation:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36704

 

[Cyc]

A quick poll on the Settler redirect has been set up in the poll sub-forum LINK! . Please Vote!

 

[Shaitan]

We still need finalization on the next city site. There is a settler/spear pair outside Kuhkaff. There has been good support for the tundra tile two tiles north/northeast of Valhalla in order to reclaim our northern iron. See the Where's the island? thread for details.

 

[FortyJ]

Honorable Leader, I direct your attention to a post I made earlier tonight in the Taliesin Province thread...

Originally posted by FortyJ
Governor. May I direct your attention to the fair city of Dacula. We are six (6) turns away from a crisis and I believe it should be addressed now rather than later.

Dacula is currently building a Library which will be finished in six (6) turns. It has 1 Happy, 2 Content, and 1 Unhappy citizen and will grow in six (6) turns. As you can see, at the same time that the library is completed, the city will grow and we will be faced with another unhappy citizen which could potentially lead to riots.

Also, there is a proposal to redirect the settler currently in Eklektochtitlan to the dyes down south. The plan is to change the production there to a settler to resettle the incense fields in the southern part of the province. This will leave a significant gap between the "dye" city and Eklektochtitlan.

I believe that we have the potential to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. Let Eklektochtitlan build its settler, but let's move it south between the "dye" city and Eklektochtitlan. We should change production in Dacula immediately to a Settler to settle the incense fields. There will be no loss in shields in Dacula and it will eliminate the potential crisis.

I strongly believe this is a tenable solution to this problem. I urge you to consider this matter carefully, and if you are in agreement, please instruct the DP to take the appropriate action.

 

[Shaitan]

An emminently sensible solution.

 

[Shaitan]

There was massive confusion in the last chat. After reviewing the log I see there should not have been as Fionn was there and his instructions should have been followed. Regardless, I think we need an overall city plan instead of the onesie twosie approach we have been doing. If you can develop (and get approval for) a unified city placement grid we can avoid much confusion and headache later on.

 

[FionnMcCumhall]

Yet my instructions were not followed. I dont know where Eklek went to he didnt send me a pm saying if he was taking a prolonged absence but until he responds to anyone inquiry into where he has gone guess i get the fun of running domestic til the boss is back Hopefully he returns soon

 

[Eklektikos]

Apologies for my absence from the fora over the last few days, and for my dire lack of performance in the preceding week. The former was due to a problem with the ISP that I use to connect from home, which rendered me unable to connect to the internet on friday and saturday. The latter was caused by an all round hellish RL week, during which I should have just left the work to Fionn. 20/20 hindsight in action as ever...

Anyway I'm back and feeling a whole lot better now, so will be dealing with all matters domestic this evening when I get home from work.

 

[Eklektikos]

I have posted polls concerning the emergency building of a city to counter Denver and the next city to be built in the NW area. Please vote ASAP if you wish to make your voice heard!

 

[Shaitan]

Note that the Domestic Department is in charge of build queues and tile usage for several cities now. I request a heavy military build wherever possible to prepare for the war against Japan.