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Date Posted: 15:57:07 08/22/03 Fri
Author: Zin Ramu
Subject: My Exile experience

Well just completed exile, my final score was 431, with the following breakdown:

CR - 100
PR - 90
MR - 41
KR - 100
All 5 cities conquered
(Pop: 736, 1106Db)

Some lessons and interesting points:

Economy:
- Gold: Elf's tips concerning gold mine production (i.e. cutting the road to avoid the return trip was a crucial lesson).
- Pottery: Elf's Path festival idea also added crucial income and alleviated the need to import more than 100.
- Copper and Wood: Placing a storage yard near the entrance with one crude hut, really makes the buying and selling of these commodities easy.
- Beer & Linen: never need to open a route or import any thanks to Bast.
- Food: you need to import enough to get initial evolve, then Bast takes care of rest (note you can export any spare)

Military:
Elf's post on his initial runthrough provides a good summary of when battles will occur and what amount of troops are needed. The only difference that occured with my game was that for my July 51 troop request for Tyre, when I sent 16 chariots (4 of which where academy trained), I only got back 8 chariots, not 12 as Elf did. I can only guess this depends on when you build the military academy and the % of trained versus not trained.

Monument:
I missed it by 3 points, I started in 53 but I had some wait times, since often I had to "GET" wood from my SY at the entrance and bring it all the way to my main block. I wish I had counted my exact wood usage, b/c I wasted 1 wood, but found a good way to manage that is near the end stockpile wood when not trading and see if more is need for the monument before you let Carpenter's Guild get anymore.

Prosperity:
While I sent my wood out the second the request came, my luxury goods only arrived after the end of Sept (making them useless, since PR is calculated only after the end of every quater). Elf's message seems to imply he got his before Sept. Elf if you remember when exactly you got it pls post. If it was before Sept., I wonder why I didn't get the same break.

Not wanting to replay and import ~100 (with bast providing the rest), I instead neglected the final wood request. This causes a -3KR, but with 600 in savings even with the -10KR in Nov, you have more than enough to get back up 100 (lavish + generous, leaving 100 for your city). But this allowed my the sell that 800 wood, worth much more than 400 lux goods.

Thats all I can think of for the moment, if you have any questions ask away. Looks like I was a little late to the party, Elf pretty much had this one solved before I got started. Nicely done Elf.

Zin

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