Playing LT30 as Koreans

Posted on 2012/04/29 by jhh

It’s been a while since my English nation and United Earth in LT30 was invaded and mostly conquered. However England is indeed still alive and part of the worldwide nations fighting against the same common enemy. Sadly only England and Finns were able to escape from our homeland of United Earth but the resistance still continues. Westminster sadly was conquered, too.

However I’ve found a new home from the Noobish Squad playing Korean empire as a regent for Steelsk. Since I am part of their alliance now I cannot blog as openly as I’ve been writing. Although we have some videos coming up once I get permission to publish them.

One of my new passions playing Freeciv as Koreans was to setup an Intelligence Agency. Here’s a chart of my missions worldwide:

Playing these micro-missions each turn is actually more fun than I espected. Of course it would be even more fun if Freeciv supported this type of play better… but with little imagination, time and passion you can do a lot of things from the basic mechanism.

We also have a memorial wall:

[Check also Realtime updated version of Freeciv-LT30-MemorialWall-Korean.png]

Westminster is still holding

Posted on 2012/04/13 by jhh

The British Empire is not RIP. We have not been stopped. Our great lands were flooded by belligerent and arrogant savages but that doesn’t break us. It makes us stronger.

The enemy has failed to conquer our capital and that capital is still standing at the same place. Some of our citizens have fleed to meet other friendly nations to join the arms as one coalition against this terrible threat.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.”

You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Things you can do when under attack from the Dark One itself…

Posted on 2012/04/06 by jhh

…sorry, I mean superior double turning cheaters — sorry — I really mean just superior enemy.

You can sell some buildings. Your enemy will anyway sell them, too. Good buildings to sell are Sewer Systems, Aquaducts, etc. You don’t need them if you are anyway loosing. Those buildings are only needed to grow your cities. You don’t need them to keep your cities that size.
Use spies to steal from conquered enemy cities. Even if you’re not going to use the techs, you can help someone else to survive by giving it to them. For return you probably get lots of gold — you are really going to need all of it, too!
Use some of your units to pillage roads before the enemy advances further

Please let me know if you know more things to do. :-)

(Yes, I am under an attack from KG, Terror, dt0r, maho, etc. Actually we all are in LT30 if you didn’t know it already.)

Update: To clarify the term cheating: I call it cheating to build roads under one minute before turn change and then using them right after to conquer cities. It’s abuse of the original game system. It just hasn’t been fixed in the server (yet). However it looks like this type of abuse is normal business in Longturn games. (It’s btw forbidden in our Finnish game rules as is much of the other abuses Longturn allows.)

Longturn LT31 starting soon

Posted on 2012/04/04 by jhh

Longturn LT31 will be started soon! It’s time to join if you like to play. I’ll be playing Japanese there… and I’ve thought taking quite different approach this time. Maybe little RPG. We’ll see.

Journal of LT30 turn 70

Posted on 2012/03/11 by jhh

It’s now time to continue my journals for LT30.

I’m sorry I haven’t had time to write more. I’ll try to write at least once a week from now on.

English year 750 BC (T70)

Alliance

I am part of United Earth Alliance. It’s quite small alliance — actually more like an union.

Cities

I have 12 cities and I’m playing under Republic government. Aquaducts were built just a moment ago to most of my cities and I am starting celebrations again to get my cities to size 12 as fast as possible.

Here is screenshots of all of my cities.

Westminster

Newcastle

Birmingham

Canterbury

Liverpool

London

York

Leeds

Bradford

Manchester

Derby

Southampton

Small Wonders

I have built Hanging Gardens and Colossus. I’m building Marco Polo’s Embassy at the moment. It will give +40% trade in each cities.

Demographics

That’s it for now.

British Journal LT30/T53

Posted on 2012/02/23 by jhh

It has been a while since I wrote about my game in LT30 last time. Sorry for that. I’ve been busy with my work.

It’s T53 and 1350 BC now. A lot has happened. British Empire is soon in Republic government, too! The revolt has started and is over tomorrow.

British population is 480,000 but that’s going to change once the celebrations will start.

The Republic

The new government will change a lot of things. I already started by selling my granaries from cities over three population. This will give total of 440 g from all of my cities once I’ve sold all of them. One granary gives 40 gold. Over three sized cities can grow much easier with celebrations than with food.

I have been trying to think how to use the gold effectively. There’s so much things I could do but I’m not sure what is the best option.

Alliance and Trade

We have a small alliance and a trading network and we would be willing to trade almost anything. We are willing to share embassies both ways. Just ask for diplomats and we can send them to you. We might be willing to sell techs for gold, too, but we prefer trading bulb per bulb.

About my recent inactivity

Posted on 2012/02/17 by jhh

You might have wondered why I haven’t published posts in several weeks… I’m sorry for that. First of all I had some technical problems — my laptop broke down and it was replaced — and then I had lot of work related issues to handle and lot of work to do. I simply had to prioritize to get everything important ready.

However I didn’t stop playing but I guess my busyness might had some effect also on the quality of my playing. Anyway I have now ten cities — which is full amount before unhappiness in Despotism. I have made first diplomatic treaties and we have working tech trade in effect with friendly nations and we have organized it in Google Docs.

I have complete first level of techs (Alphabet, Bronze Working, Ceremonial Burial, Horseback Riding, Masonry, Pottery, Warrior Code) and some of the second level techs (Currency, Map Making, Writing).

I try to find more time to write a real journal this weekend.

Also I hope my first exploration ship will make into the header image of this blog soon. It was just put on water and made a small test run!

Texan – Demographics for LT30/T30

Posted on 2012/02/01 by jhh

Texan’s asked me to publish their demographics for T30 in LT30.

Here is a screenshot:

Please note: I cannot verify authenticity for it of course. I don’t have contact to Texan’s at this point of game.

Playing LT30/T26

Posted on 2012/01/29 by jhh

It’s turn T26 and my current score is 15 now.

Research

I will finish Writing next turn and then I’ll have my first two diplomats turn after that — and first Embassy in three turns from now. I have already had talks with my neighbours for tech trading and we have also planned for a bit what we research together to minimize wasting bulbs.

Manchester

My fourth city Manchester was built some turns ago. It’s now building Granary, too. It will be finished in 12 turns.

I started building Irrigations for Manchester four turns ago. I noticed that a veteran worker builds one irrigation/turn and I switched my level 2 road worker from building road to build irrigations.

Newcastle

I built Newcastle last turn and it’s my newest city. It’s also building Granary and will be finished in 13 turns.

Westminster

Westminster is growing to size 3 in 2 turns. It will be building diplomats to be send to my neighbors. For the moment I’m building Settler but I will switch it to diplomat next turn when I’ll get Writing.

Birmingham

Birmingham is building Workers for the moment.

London

London is building Workers, too.

Liverpool

For the moment I am keeping the people of Liverpool as scientists to help me get Writing next turn. Liverpool has 15 food in Granary and -2 food for the moment but it will survive to the next turn fine.