Ucel03 - Extremus Totalus

[ucel]

1 for Izzy
1 for Sal
1 for Cyr

frisky, ndth what are your oppinions?

 

[ucel]

Hey, guys, are you still interesting in this game? I need at least a confirmation, especially from frisky who is the next in the roster.

 

[colony]

Has there been any news on this game yet? Or are you still waiting for people to confirm they're still playing?

 

[ucel]

I think, if the won't respond today, I'll start the game today evening with Saladin and we'll have to look for two more players.

 

[ucel]

I hoped for the answer, but got none. Since my fav was Izzy before Sal I will start Sal today evening.
Settling in place will give us all 5 food resources. Any suggestions considering techs and units?

My considerations:
I dont know now if Sal knows already Fishing.
If it's not the case we should go the path Fishing->Mining->Bronze to identify copper mines nearby.
If we know fishing then I suggest Meditaion->Mining->Bronze. With working Clam we should get Budd first with no problems.

Considering military: Warrior->Warrior->Boat->Settler.

I'll play 20 turns, then chriseay and colony both 15, then 10 turns for each player.

frisky, ndth - please confirm the participation or I will have to strike you.

 

[colony]

Saladin starts with Mysticism and The Wheel, so I think an early religion from this position would probably delay Fishing and BW for too long.

Warrior, Warrior, Boat, Settler sounds like a good idea from here. Ideally we'd also need a worker, but with all that food it might be able to wait until after the first Settler

 

[ucel]

We have practically no chance for early religion since have no accesible commerce fields. I give 100% that someone would beat us with Med and about 70% for someone beating us with Poly.
So we have to start with fishing. We could try to point to CoL later or just conquer a holy city or two .

 

[ucel]

To remind.
Our starting position:

And our starting save

 

[chriseay]

That site is heaven for the whip or specialists (or both). That is an amazing amount of food. If my calculations are correct, we should have 16 excess food from fishing all the seafood + lighthouse. 8 specialists or all 3 hills mined and worked with still 5 specialists and 2 grassland forests (which could be cottages, but we'll probably need the health). Plus, if we get colossus, each sea tile is 3 coins. I am excited to see what we can do with this capital.

 

[ucel]

1) 4000 BC
Mecca found. Started Warrior and fishing.

2) 3960 BC
3) 3920 BC
We got a scout from the hut.

4) 3880 BC
5) 3840 BC

Met Asoka.

6) 3800 BC
Cathy looks for a CLOSER relation with us. Does she like Arabs?

7) 3760 BC
Fishing->Mining

Meet some more people: George Not Bush But Washington, Hotsy and Talkugawa

8) 3720 BC
9) 3680 BC
First Warrion completed. Started the second one and moving production to clams. Mining jumped from 6 to 5.

10) 3640 BC
Buddhism is FIDAL

11) 3600 BC
Found Vicky

12) 3560 BC
And Cyrus

13) 3520 BC
Our first warrior has been eaten by the bear
Found Mansa Musa: he's already pleased to us!

14) 3480 BC
Mining->Bronze

15) 3440 BC
Found Izzy.

16) 3400 BC
And Louis.

17) 3360 BC
Hinduism is FIDAL

18) 3320 BC
This "Distant Land" was Paris...
Mecca started Work Boat.

19) 3280 BC
Found Bismarck

20) 3240 BC
21) 3200 BC
Hotsy converted to Bud, it must be her neighbour who found the religion.

Our map for now:

The wandering warrior should be the protector of Medina. Mecca will grow up in 3, I suggest then using the hill to speed up the boat production and then start the settler.
Considering the next techs: Agri->Ani to find if we have horses. And then Priesthood for Oracle: we've got Marble!

Chriseay, you're up.

 

[chriseay]

Ok, I can't play till tomorrow night, but it looks like to the east is where we want to settle. I think if we can get one east, one south, and possibly one southeast we'll be set. There are too many AI's for much else. I think using the amazing food of the capital to run a ton of specialists is a great idea....especially considering we are philosophical. Let's try to get pyramids somehow so we can make those specialists count.

 

[colony]

Pyramids sounds like a great idea here, no stone unfortunately though, and we're not industrious, so it will take a lot of time away from our military, which could be fatal on a map this crowded. Izzy might actually be a good friend to have here if we can get her to spread her religion to us, she loves to torture and "cleanse the souls" of the heathens after all

Maybe capturing the city with the Pyramids in could be an option? I'm not a fan of early wonders at the best of times, so personally I'd prefer a military build up.

 

[chriseay]

Ok, I can't get the save to load. Anyone else want to try. I get an error message that says "the save file you selected is protected to ensure that the assets in your mod folder have not been changed." I have no mods installed, so possibly you do Ucel? I don't know what's going on.

 

[ucel]

I have only Blue Marble. Could that be a reason?
In that case I have to restart the game without 'no cheating' flag. But that means regenerating map and civ

 

[chriseay]

Blue Marble is so easy to install and un install. I'll try installing it later today and see if that's it. I can also try a complete reinstallation of civ. I'll check back in later today after I try again.

 

[ucel]

No answer from chriseay means probably that he couldn't magage to load the game. I'll try to restart the map today without "No Cheating" option. If I won't I'll just generate three new starts to choose .

 

[chriseay]

Ahh sorry about that, I tried and couldn't load the game. I had thought for sure I posted saying as much. My apologies.

 

[ucel]

Unfortunately
There is no way to activate World Builder after you start the game.

So I have rolled three new starts:

1) Kublai from the North:

2) Cyrrus on the Hill

3) Washington on Rice

Your choice?