The Department of Culture - Term 3

[punkbass2000]

It may be a good idea, as money is tight at the moment. Wall Street will begin construction soon, but we need a fifth bank first (which will be completed in a few turns, IIRC).

 

[chiefpaco]

We lost control of a gems deposit during the last round because of the expansion of Greek boundaries near Txacala (sp?). What plan might help us gain it back? Txcala is just over the 100 expansion limit & won't be expanding until it hits 1000.

As a result, our citizens are without gems until we stop trading them away to Inida.

 

[Curufinwe]

Chief, if we overcome their culture, we will regain the tiles whether we expand or not, so we must try to allocate funds to the rushing of a University, but we have not those funds, but when we overcome their culture, I'm more than certain we regain those tiles.

 

[Plexus]

What about ironwerks? I really hope it is able to be built in my province!

 

[Curufinwe]

Oh yes, we shall know if that's possible very quickly, it will be most nice to find if the answer is yes, but it is probably no.

 

[Curufinwe]

Justus Type report here, filling in for Justus and Punkbass:
City Culture CPT Buildings
Fox Nest 3564 39 Palace 2pt, Temple 4pt, Library 6 pt Cathedral 3pt University 4pt Great Library 12pt Heroic Epic 8pt

Washington 703 8 Temple 2pt Library 6pt
Thebes 300 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt
Memphis 246 3 Library 3 pt
New York 416 8 Temple 2pt Library 3pt Cathedral 3pt
Eyr 422 5 Temple 2pt library 3pt
Heliopolis 165 3 Library 3pt
Boston 415 8 Temple 2pt Library 6pt
Shailonegha 608 7 Temple 4pt Library 3pt
Elephantine 145 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt
Philadelphia 387 9 Temple 2pt Library 3pt University 4pt
Khatovar 847 14 Temple 2pt Library 6pt Sistine Chapel 6pt
PDX 1276 22 Temple 4pt Library 3pt Cathedral 3pt Shakespeares 8pt
Atlanta 141 3 Library 3pt
Alexandria 215 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt
Chicago 285 6 Library 6pt
Tlaxcala 118 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt
Seattle 123 3 Library
Pherris 1149 15 Temple 2pt Library 6pt Cath 3pt University 4pt
malinalco 235 8 Temple 2pt Library 3pt Cathedral 3pt
San Francisco 147 3 Library 3pt
Byblos 137 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt
Civanatoria 751 8 Temple 2pt Library 6pt
El-AMarna 150 3 Library 3pt
Miami 319 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt
Abydos 195 3 Library 3pt
New Falcon's Haven 447 9 Temple 2pt Library 3pt University 4pt
Justinian 327 9 Library 3pt Johann Sebastian Bach's Cathedral 6pt
Macao 255 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt
Chie 331 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt
Chondote 0 0 No culture buildings constructed
ANyang 51 3 Library 3pt
Port Gisnod 201 3 library 3pt
Asyut 221 5 Library 3pt Temple 2pt
Lutetia 331 9 Temple 2pt Library 3pt University 4pt
Callisto 201 5 TEmple 2pt Library 3pt
Plexia 115 5 Temple 2pt Library 3pt

100,000 culture points in 1985, culture win never, 1 city win never yet

 

[Falcon02]

How much more Culture rushing are you planning. Cause I feel I need more money to update our Military, we've got 27 pikemen in the era of Cavalry for goodness sake.

 

[Curufinwe]

Hard to say, as much as is neccesary, when Forbidden palace comes this should decrease since the places can build it on their own, but if you declare war and take more cities then we shall have more culture rushing. Also, when Wall Street, Smiths, and Forbidden palace come there will be a lot of gold, so do not worry, we shall build factories to build new military.

 

[Curufinwe]

Plus, many banks shall come, making even more money, we shall not be in want for long.

 

[Chieftess]

This is a reminder too all cabinet members and governers to post their turn chat instructions here for tonight's turn chat, if you haven't done so already.

 

[Justus II]

Sorry everyone, this course has been taking way too much time these first few days, especially tonight, I have a presentation due tomorrow (that I should be working on now). I should have some more time again tomorrow or Friday. A couple of quick comments - Cultural Assault Program should be ok to continue building at the cities own pace for now, the main improvments are in place (library/temple) in the southern border cities, and they can build univ. as their production permits, while still generating culture. The only rush I would call urgent is the Library at Chondote, since it has NO culture, we don't want it to flip back. Tlaxcala would be next, but probably too expensive to rush right now, especially in our finanacial situation, maybe next chat.

(BTW, I know that there is a chat tonight, I hope it is going well, but I don't have my laptop set up for MIRC, and can't really download it now. Hopefullly, I will be set up by this weekend).

 

[Curufinwe]

PB and I've done well, we've rushed that library already (I believe so) turn to finish, I'd be happy to do another summary in your stead, gold little tight with military consuming gobs but we'll get a bit now and then. Overall pretty good Hierarch Justus.

 

[Plexus]

We can build the Ironworks in Civanatoria!

 

[Curufinwe]

We can! Really! I'll check that while I'm doing culture report

 

[Plexus]

All we need is a road!

 

[Curufinwe]

Yes, what a wonderful day.

 

[Curufinwe]

Here's the report Lib=Libary Temp=Temple Uni=university Cath=Cathedral. I'd like to say that we know have a library in every last city, so we have a source of books everywhere.
Culture Per Turn Buildings
Fox Nest 3813 42 Lib 528 Temp 618 Cath 216 Uni 180
Valhall 751 8 Lib 591/6 Temp 160/2
Thebes Data Flawed, most sorry, shall update later
Memphis 264 3 Lib 264/3
New York 464 8 Lib 273/3 Temp. 158/2 Cath.33/3
Eyr 452 5 Lib 282/3Temp 170/2
Heliopolis 183 3 Lib 183/3
Boston 463 8 Lib 321/6 Temp 170/2
Shailonegha 650 7 Lib 241/3 Temp.626/4
Elephantine 175 5 Lib 153/3 Temp. 22/2
Philadelphia 553 12 Lib 363/6 Temp.130/2 Uni 120/4
Khatovar 937 17 Lib 321/6 Temple (in 150's)/2 Cath 6/3 Sistine Chapel 456/6
PDX 1414 25 Lib 294/6 Temple 618/4 Cath 198/3 Uni.200/4
Atlanta 159 3 Lib 159/3
Alexandria 245 5 Lib 183/3 Temp.62/2
Chicago 321 6 Lib 321/6
Cyrus (Tlaxcala) 148 5 Lib 102/3 Temp. 46/2
Seattle 141 3 Lib 141/3
Pherris 1239 15 lib 750/6 Temp.150/2 Cath. 271/3 168/4
Malinalco 283 8 Lib 168/3 Temp. 94/2 Cath. 21/3
San Francisco 167 5 Lib 165/3 Temp 2/2
Byblos 167 5 Lib 153/3 Temp. 14/2
Civanatoria 799 8 Lib 663/6 TEmp. 136/2
El-Amarna 168 3 Lib 168/3
Miami 349 5 lib 237/3 Temp.112/2
Abydos 213 3 Lib 213/3
New Falcon's Haven 501 9 Lib 285/3 Temp. 48/2 Uni. 168/4
Justinian 381 9 Lib 171/3 J.S.Bach's Cathedral 210/6
Macao 285 5 Lib 183/3 Temp. 102/2
Chie 361 5 Lib 231/2 Temp 130/2
Chondote 15 2 Lib 15/3
Anyang 69 3 Lib 69/3
Port gisnod 219 3 Lib 219/3
Asyut 267 9 Lib 171/3 Temp. 80/2 Uni. 16/4
Lutetia 385 9 Lib 219/3 Temp. 78/2 Uni 58/4
Callisto 231 5 Lib 183/3 Temp. 38/2
Plexia 145 5 Lib 93/3 52/2

 

[Curufinwe]

Justus or PB, do to the fact that we have a library in every city I believe that we should know finish up and add a temple to every last one, also, although we will have 100,000 culture points in the late 1900's, we shan't win a cultural victory because we wouldn't fulfill the requirement of having more than double of all elses, thus we need a lot of cultural improvements. Universities cost 396 after 1 sheild has been built, so we must wait for a long time before we can rush these due to the fact that our budget shan't be able to allow it. We are facing a dilema and I regret to say that a cultural victory shall more than likely be impossible, and we must find another way, or we put this forward to the citizens and we might be able to approve of a way to find the adequate cultural improvements and budget.

 

[Curufinwe]

Mr. Pb, while Justus is away (I've no idea when he returns) may i continue to do those reports, I thouroughly enjoy them and would be overjoyed to continue them, what say you?

 

[chiefpaco]

2 suggestions for the Culture Dept. Just trying to help a little

- Rush money needs to be approved by the Domestic dept. so make any specific requests in the budget thread well before turn time so they can be seen. Specific requests are better than suggestions and might be better targetted at governors. If approved, the governors can just put them in their instructions queues, saving you some work.

- use the CODE tag in your tables so that they are more readable. It changes your text to an "even-spacing" font (forget what it is called). Here's an example. To see the code at work, hit the "quote" response button on my post. I find it best to write out a table using notepad and then paste it into my replies. After that, add the text formatting (bold, italics...) cause it doesn't affect the spacing. Good luck.

 [B]City    Cult  Per Build  C    Build   C   Build  C  Build  C[/B]
[I]Fox Nest[/I] 3813  42   Lib  528   Temp   618  Cath  216  Uni  180
[I]Valhall[/I]  751   8    Lib  591/6 Temp  160/2