It’s time for my 9th turn of LT30.

Yesterday I couldn’t get time to write a journal about my 8th turn. However I managed to do my turn hastily. Not much happened yesterday anyway.

Exploration

Today I made contact to Basques ruled by Topyli. He’s also one of the guys from our local finnish game community. I also made contact to Normans ruled by Djoules.

Research

Currently I’m researching Alphabet and done 8 of 56 bulbs. If I’m going to keep this pace I have researched it in 12 turns.

There is no penalty for changing tech targets in LT30. Two days ago I thought that there was because initial settings for the server were wrongly written and some settings were not activated. For my initial test games I had noticed that and fixed the settings for myself. Nobody fixed it for LT30…

Westminster

Westminster is now building Granary and it will be finished at the same turn as the city grows to size 2 in 6 turns. By then I’ll have a mine built on that Coal tile, too.

Birmingham

Birmingham is my designed production city. I’m not optimizing it to any work but producing shields and units for the nation. Currently it’s building Warriors. Once I get my first migrants they will most likely come here.

Defence

My defence plans are well on the way. I have warriors now on all parts of my nation inside cities.

Demographics Repors

Once again I’m not sure if my ranking in production is good or am I just one of the last sharing the same ranking.

Top five cities

First three cities to reach size 2 on turn T7 were Pirate City of Port Royal, Texan City of San Antionio and Venezuelan City of Caracas. Now on turn T8 there’s at least five cities of size 2. I could have reached size 2 the same speed but I counted that it’s better to get Pottery first. We’ll see if I was right…