Civ 5 mutliplayer GMR 14 On the Euro

[RayGallade]

Spoiler: Huns

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Greetings from Aleph Complex. Our esteemed council member, Gustavus Ad-U-FUS, has accepted your offer of shared embassies. We hope this meeting is the sign of future prosperity.

[OrcusMcP]

Spoiler: Huns

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Greetings from Aleph Complex. Our esteemed council member, Gustavus Ad-U-FUS, has accepted your offer of shared embassies. We hope this meeting is the sign of future prosperity.

Spoiler: Sweden

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Greetings! We require your strongest ale and most beautiful women!

Edit: is it just me, or is the GMR site down?

[Mx.Silver]

The domain name appears to have expired.

[Datsmore]

You can access turns through 191.239.32.133

[Illven]

It appears to be back up.

[RayGallade]

Spoiler: Huns

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Aleph Complex is willing to answer your requests, though we ask what we might receive from you in return.

[RayGallade]

Heads up, I will likely have no access to the internet over the weekend and am in a bit of a bad position for vacation mode. Think we could lengthen the turn timer for the weekend? If it turns out that I do have access, I will take my turn as quickly as possible.

[Illven]

Heads up, I will likely have no access to the internet over the weekend and am in a bit of a bad position for vacation mode. Think we could lengthen the turn timer for the weekend? If it turns out that I do have access, I will take my turn as quickly as possible.

Assuming no one protests, I extended the turn timer to 3 days.

[Ryuho Tsugu]

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[tropical_punch]

You could probably restore the timer to 1 day now, Ilven.

[RayGallade]

Indeed. Thanks for lengthening the timer for me.

Spoiler: Huns

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Aleph Complex is looking to facilitate development of future sectors and wishes to know if your noble people have laid claim to the lands east of your great court. Prior to our historic meeting, the Complex had sought to establish a south-eastern presence.

[Illven]

This is what I get for not sleeping well the previous night!

Turn timer edited back to a day.

[OrcusMcP]

Indeed. Thanks for lengthening the timer for me.

Spoiler: Huns

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Aleph Complex is looking to facilitate development of future sectors and wishes to know if your noble people have laid claim to the lands east of your great court. Prior to our historic meeting, the Complex had sought to establish a south-eastern presence.

Spoiler: Sweden

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Attila lays claim to all he sees, but for now we may consider the mountains between us as a natural border. Anything on our side of the mountains is considered Hunnic property.

[RayGallade]

Spoiler: Huns

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Aleph Complex wishes to confirm with the great Attila which mountains he refers to. We have sent our foremost cartographer to ensure we prevent miscommunications.





We wish to confirm that Attila is graciously considering the lands north of the three peaks in our first map and northeast of the mountains in our second to be acceptable.

[OrcusMcP]

Spoiler: Huns

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Aleph Complex wishes to confirm with the great Attila which mountains he refers to. We have sent our foremost cartographer to ensure we prevent miscommunications.





We wish to confirm that Attila is graciously considering the lands north of the three peaks in our first map and northeast of the mountains in our second to be acceptable.

Spoiler: Sweden

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You are correct. Do not mistake this for generosity, though. As mentioned, Attila lays claim to all he sees.

[Ryuho Tsugu]

[The turn I just took may need to be reverted; the desktop client threw up an error when I tried to submit it, but the turn order advanced anyway.]

[Illven]

Okay, That one hawk can do that. Or ask me to do so.

[Illven]

Orcus. I think you ended up, uploading 10's game to this one. So I had to revert.

[OrcusMcP]

Orcus. I think you ended up, uploading 10's game to this one. So I had to revert.

Oops, sorry about that.

[Illven]

Spoiler: Spectator update

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In the year 2260 BC, the Siam people constructed a great temple to the goddess of the hunt.

[RayGallade]

Spoiler: Iroquois

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Greetings, friends. Gustavus Ad-U-FUS wishes to welcome you to our fellowship. He regrets to inform you that all paperwork involving your official invites to our capital sector have been lost amid the other writings. However, Aleph Complex is still open to the thought of trading embassies.

[Silverraptor]

Spoiler: Sweden

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Greeting! It's with warm wishes that we extend a hand of friendship with the people of Sweden. We shall also figure out how to fix this clerical error.

[Illven]

Had to stop myself from opening that, Silverraptor.

[Silverraptor]

Had to stop myself from opening that, Silverraptor.

Oh? And what made you want to open it to begin with, England(8)/Siam?

[Illven]

Oh? And what made you want to open it to begin with, England(8)/Siam?

I was Sweden in 7.

[Silverraptor]

I was Sweden in 7.

Ah. Okay.

[The_Snark]

Spectator update time!

Spoiler: Spectators

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When last we saw the Byzantine Empire, the game had just kicked off. Here's how things are progressing!



... kind of slowly. But that's par for the course in the early game.



I started off with Tradition, as I don't expect to have much opportunity to expand with this many players, but almost immediately made a slight detour into Piety in order to grab a pantheon more quickly. I feel like that may be a bad idea in the long term, but my civilization's unique ability is completely dependent on founding a religion, so I am going to want faith.



Given that all my starting location really has going for it is a pile of sea resources, I've decided to to try and capitalize on those. Dance of the Aurora was also a possibility, but someone else took it before I got the chance - probably just as well, since my current territory doesn't have more than a few workable tiles. It'd get me a lot of faith later on, but the early game is when it's really nice.



I am making a beeline for Optics, in order to grab lighthouses ASAP. +2 food, +1 production is a pretty fair boost all on its own; +1 food and +1 production to all those whales also makes it a steal. Once I've got that and a few fishing boats built, I should have a pretty strong capital for the early game.



This looks like a promising area for my second city (and maybe even my third). New luxury, plenty of sea resources, not too far away. Still no real clue where I am in pseudo-Europe.



My scouting party is currently bogged down fighting off hostile natives; fortunately, they found a cache of bows in an ancient ruin. If they survive, there's another ruin a little ways to the southeast, just across the channel from my capital.

[Mx.Silver]

Spoiler: Turn 30 Spectator update

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So, on the plus side, we have proper coast, which should make expansion easier. Annoyingly, I've been pantheon sniped twice in a row now (i.ee someone else founds a pantheon one turn before I hit the faith required for that) but hopefully that will stop happening soon.

[Illven]

Spoiler: Spectator bonus update

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We are told by the will of the gods, that another civilization worships a servant in the divine bureaucracy.




Our warriors recruit from the savages of the wilds. As they wait for the Orcs to tire themselves out.



And our work band and their guard moves to improve the silver.



And the scouts engage the green skins!



Our tech tree ladies and gentlemen.



Maps of our capital.



Still going through tradition.



Best and worst in nothing!

[Illven]

I added the gentlemenly diplomacy rules to the first post, as people seemed in agreement of them.