Post making contest 5.0

This is episode #2.

• I'm assuming the only reason Ben's being so loose-lipped about King Solomon's Mines is that he knows full well that city state will end up with it...
  
• (actually it might be rushable depending on how fast Stockholm can pump a settler out... I doubt it though)
  
• they are going to spend the entire series pronouncing son-gah-ee wrong aren't they
  
• I love how people still aren't able to tell when a unit has used up all its moves for a turn and then they try to send it somewhere and get quietly confused as to why their action wasn't registered. It's the best.
  
• Sjin: "City spot number two get!" cue me squinting at Sjin's view trying to figure out what the heck he's talking about
  
• ...he doesn't realise that the hex his archer's on is not a legitimate spot to settle on since he hasn't met the city state that's too close. Ah.
  
• Duncan: "Is Carthage a good coastal civ then?" Sjin: "Yeah! We're all about elephants!" um
  
• Sjin has just learnt that Carthage get free harbours in their coastal cities.
  
• HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY CARVE UP A PIECE OF LAND: DO NOT USE ANY GEOGRAPHICAL SLASH DIRECTIONAL DESCRIPTORS WHATSOEVER SO THAT BOTH PARTIES THINK THEY'VE GOT THE SAME PATCH OF TURF
  
• Ben please Lewis can't see your cursor stop circling the bit you want
  
• Duncan: "I think my civilisation's music is just a guy shaking a rattlesnake" Lewis: "...you mean a rattle?" Duncan: "No, it's got a lot of hissing as well!"
  
• Since Duncan just got Pottery from a ruin and is researching The Wheel, I'm thinking he is greeding Petra big time. Eh. It'll help
  
• Sjin: "Fucking Genoa, every game." Duncan: "No, I don't"
  
• Ben: "What is Genoa anyway? Is it a real place?" Sjin: "Ah, see, it's the old name of Geneva..."
  
• And Sjin got Writing as his third tech... but is building a settler instead of... you know what...
  
• The first footballing rivalry that springs to Lewis's mind is Norwich versus Ipswich.
  
• THIS IS THE TWENTY-SOMETHINGTH SERIES WHY ARE THEY STILL CONFUSED WHEN THEY APPARENTLY DON'T GET ANYTHING FROM A RUIN
  
• BEN THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "DUD-HUT" YOU GOT CULTURE
  
• I have not heard of the thing Pyrion is describing as being new to America is it a thing for version 11?
  
• Lewis: "But you don't start the game with a settler?"
  
• Sjin: "You know, I wish you guys weren't in this game. I wish it were just me." Ben: "...if only there were an option for that..."
  
• yeah Pyrion's googled it it's a v11 thing jolly good
  
• I have not been paying attention to people's policy trees what are they and why are they all tradition
  
• Ben: "Why do you hate telling the truth so much Lewis?" well see you are playing a game where it is not always advantageous to tell the truth
  
• Rythian pretending he might want to attack Lewis is so precious
  
• Rythian, suddenly: "YONKS!" Lewis: "...what happened?" Rythian, quietly: "Nothing. Um. I don't know."
  
• Sjin is trying to steal Duncan's escorted settler whilst he hasn't got an escort for his own and thus can't move it out of his capital due to the oncoming barbarians. Hah.
  
• Duncan's plan for getting Petra means that he does not have the techs to improve his luxuries and thus he's just gone unhappy from settling his second city. He does realise he has no real competition for Petra, right? He can afford to research Mining!
  
• Rythian: "At the risk of sounding like a noob, I have to ask" (okay fair enough) "if I chop the forest on a luxury resource down, does the luxury go away?"
  
• Pyrion: "Yes" Sjin: "Yes" Lewis: "Depends what luxury"
  
• NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
  
• The resource itself will never disappear - chopping the forest will simply revert the tile back to whatever terrain is underneath. So if you chop a plains forest, your yields do not change, whereas chopping a grassland forest loses you a hammer but gains you a food. In the case of Rythian's truffle camp, it's a plains forest, so by chopping he loses nothing in terms of the yield but actually gains the one-off production boost from the chop!
  
• (and if you're thinking "well why would you not just always chop plains forests on luxuries?" consider (a) defensive bonuses slash sight obstructions for invaders (b) in the mod you can get things like the pantheon for plus one faith from forests)
  
• Lewis almost figured this out, eventually. Almost.

tl;dr - none of these people know how to play this game and that's okay

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