18-09-2003 20:38									#1
	Turn 30 - 2590bc Increase Your PM Length

Everything seems to be back to normal. God knows what went wrong before.

The workers are building a road and I've started on a settler.

	18-09-2003 21:08									#2
	Got spare money?

Ok, we have 1 food in the foodbox, and are currently at +5/turn. So, in order to grow in 2 turns, all we need is 1 turn at +5, and 1 turn at +4. So next turn, let's switch the citizen that's on the irrigated wine to the irrigated plains on river (to grab another shield).

This way, if we can squeeze an extra shield out of somewhere, we can shave off a turn on the settler (I think). If the new citizen (when Izz grows to size 5) allocates to one of the hills, we might get 1 turn at +7 shields, which would give us just enough (of course, we'd switch that citizen back off the hill).

The way I'm hoping it will shake out:

Turn 31: Size 4, 6 food in the box. 5 shields towards a settler. Switch citizen from irr wine to irr plains (at this point, we should be showing +6 shields/turn).

Turn 32: Size 5, empty food box. 12 shields (or, if the allocation doesn't go the way I want, it will be 11). Allocate citizens for +5 food, +6 shields.

Turn 33: Size 5, 5 food, 18 (or 17) shields.

Turn 34: Size 6, empty food box. We could have between 23 and 25 shields at this point, depending on how the citizen allocation for the last growth and this one play out.

Turn 35: If either time a new citizen allocated to a tile that produces a shield, we have our settler on this turn.

-Arrian

	19-09-2003 02:58									#3
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Excellent stuff as usual. Thanks, mate, this micro stuff goes straight over my head unless someone leads me through it slowly.

	19-09-2003 19:38									#4
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The funny part is I just about never use this level of micromanagement in my SP games. I play much faster 'n looser than that.

We need all the help we can get, being the English and all (so scale it down a bit...)

-Arrian

	23-09-2003 19:22									#5
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quote: So next turn, let's switch the citizen that's on the irrigated wine to the irrigated plains on river (to grab another shield).

Plan noted.

I have the turn now and will try to play it straight after work. If not it will have to wait another 6 hours until I come back from seeing my girlfriend. Either way it will get done ASAP.

I think I will tell Monkey that there is some land to the west they are welcome to explore, but that we'd rather they didn't go far north just yet (I'll set a tile limit, maybe 3 or 4). I'll tell them how long it'll be until we finish our research and mention that we have contact with another Civ. I'll mention to them that we will happily trade the contact once we've finished Writing, and float the suggestion that you made in the contact thread (Writing+contact for IW+50 gold). We'll see how they react to that.