Killercane and I started a civ3 PBEM.
Rik Meleet made us a map with the following conditions:
Wacken Iroquois
Killercane Sumerians
no AI
Emperor
continents reachable by navigation.
There has been some miscommunication and i ended up with the iroqs while i cannot reach my enemy. So the civ is not optimal (Sumerians are definately optimal for this setting) but who cares, i will overcome that little disadvantage right ?
And sorry, i guess this is gonna be a simcity report for the first 200 turns.
My next mistake came in the first turn. We started on a gold hill, with some food boni nearby. Not realising the importance of commerce this game (i'm used to it being worthless when playing against AI and forgot to actually think) i moved from the hill rather than settling on top of it.
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KC did settle on the hill, but he does not have alphabet as a starting tech. It does give him 2 extra gold per turn, and he has to pay about 87 beakers for alphabet. So initially, i think i can overcome this problem and beat him to Philosophy. I set research to Writing and start irrigating all those good things.
As some may know, i live and die by the food per turn principle. Since both new cities and a granary provide me 5 more fpt but a settler is faster build, i start building 2 settlers right away.
And so about 16 turns later, my empire looked like this:
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Since i see a lot of river around my capital, new cities will produce 3fpt. Now the choise between a quick settler for 3fpt or the somewhat expensive granary is starting to get closer, but i still choose for the settlers rather than the granary. So i build another batch of settlers.
Meanwhile, F11 and msn information tell me that KC has only build 3 towns, connected luxuries and is probably building granaries. our gnp's are alternating, but with his connected luxuries he probably isn't needing a lot of the entertainment slider. We end up researching Writing in the same turn, so i gave up hope on winning for philosophy and start researching some cheap 4 turn techs. Better to keep researching the cheap things now so that i don't have to waste expensive time on those when my research is stronger. And KC will make thing cheaper for me to research.
So by turn 33, my i have build a bunch of cities at the rivers and also added one non river city close to a luxury.
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I now decided it was time for granaries. I decided to build 3 granaries, but no granary in my capital. After agreeing with HC that palace flipping is alowed, i am planning ahead to build my FP in Allegheny and flip my palace elsewhere as i hate building my FP in a corrupt town. KC told me he had only just made his 4th town but had his granaries being finished around this time when i am just starting mine. But i have many more towns now so it isn't too bad. Research is going Ceremonial(4), Bronze working(4), warrior code(4) and i got mysticysm from a hut. My interpretations of F11 tell me that i have over 15 more total food per turn by the time he has finished his granaries.
KC chose literature for free technology. I keep myself busy with cheap 4 turn techs while he researches code of laws and maks it cheap for me. So research was continued: Philosophy(4), The Wheel(4), Masonry.
It is now turn 45, and this is how far we played, so the rest of the report is gonna be at PBEM speed.
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