Just to double check--we're talking about firing the spec after we pop the GSpy.
Of course
My report won’t be as fulfilling as I had hoped because the event log stopped working….
To be more precise, my game crashes if I try opening it, this has never happened to me before. WTH is up with that? Is someone using a mod making it crash for the rest of us or something? Now I can’t go back and check dates/details, so sorry for the lack of info. I’m fine with people not playing well because it’s fixable by a killer set, but this kinda stuff really annoys me, I use that event log a lot. I usually play my turns first and then write afterwards, so without the log to check events it gets much harder.
I hope the log is still working for you guys otherwise we’ve got a problem. I have no idea what caused this. I tried opening the event log with a different game too, and that worked perfectly.
1200 AD -> 1300 AD
We should discuss where to put our Globe Theatre. I strongly suggest the city west of London (Warwick). Reason being that it has two resources with 6 food each in addition to a lot of coast/sea and not much inland (most of it plains). Shutting down its economy won't matter much empire-wise and it will regrow quickly. I also started irrigating northwards towards the corn, please continue with that. It would've been easier to take the 1 grassland tile north-east, but it had already matured a cottage for some reason, so I left it.
Alemanni would also be able to regrow quickly, but that city is great for production, so I’d rather let it be as big as possible (HE anyone? We even have marble so should be quick to finish)
Techs stolen: aesthetics -> drama -> -> philosophy -> machinery -> guilds
We should also make sure to keep our eyes open for Printing Press and Banking, both essential techs for us. The Khmer actually finished researching banking, so I suggest we make that a priority the coming 10 turns. Run 100% espionage for as long as possible too, it’s better to get gold after we make our UB.
First turns were nothing special. No spies having discount yet so I mostly MM cities. I noticed a lot of our cities were working coastal tiles; I personally think that's a bit of a waste at this point as they never improve and then won’t make for a long-term investment unlike cottages, at least when cheap superb infrastructure is lacking (such as +2 hammer temples). With this in mind I whipped a lot of infrastructure as happiness was not an issue in the cities working coastal tiles. The cities which were working/maturing cottages I let be for now.
So hmm… what happened… *try to remember*
I Stole Drama as planned and got very good deals for it.
The gold allows a 100% slider now before we get our UB and helps leverage our SY too. I had also been running 0% espionage the turns before our great spy. Mansa Musa made peace with Ragnar and Monty is still warring with the Khmer.
I founded a city east of London taking the irrigated Wheat. As we already had that settler completed and idling I saw no reason not to put a city there, it will easily pay for itself and more. It can also speed up cottages for York.
Our economy is strong right now. We have doubled +/- our EP/t--much due to bureaucracy. It was in the low two-hundreds, now it's closing in on 500.
PS: Did I go blind or did they remove the upload option from the forum? I can't see it anywhere. Uploaded the save to an external site, probably going to delete it in some days, so be quick to grab it.
http://illegalt.net/replays/ungy-01%20AD-1300.CivBeyondSwordSave
Guess it goes to pigswill then as shyuhe is having probs (good luck with that dude).
Edit: Nevermind that PS, I just found the announcement.
move. Need paper before printing press. We can pinch paper from Qin at Chengdu next turn.
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