Immaculate-002: Late Age for Noobs (GAME OVER: ATLANTIS/SHATNER WINS)

[triqui]

Originally Posted by Moanerette

I've achieved my first aim of not being left behind with the first expansion - everyone took a province on turn 2.

How can you tell this, out of interest? I looked at the graphs, but I couldn't add the info up to make that kind of judgment.

Income. Man has the highest natural income (some people is getting more than him, but their income bar is not straight, that means they pushed the taxes to 150% + patrol in the first turn. Man did not such thing in the first turn and had higher income than anyone else). Normally high scales mean high income. It's not true allways, though, some people could go for a high scale start with Magic 3 and Luck 3, and those wouldnt appear in the graph. But normally, high scales mean high income, as Growth, Production and Order all influence your income.

PS: and those with very low starting income, ussually have bad scales. Bad scales often mean high bless, or awakened SC. So beware those with very low starting income.

[dojango]

Doesn't the income graph also reflect random events such as trade fairs, gold rushes, etc? So with only one data point (two, now) it seems risky (from an analytical viewpoint) to start drawing conclusions from that.

But hey, if it's good enough for lancet...

[shatner]

No, the gold and gems gained or lost from random events is not tracked on the graphs. Neither are gold and gems gained or lost from trade with other players.

The very first turn is actually a very good spot to look for income info because it is the only time in the entire game when every nation is in exactly the same situation: one province with an original population of 30,000. The amount that their income varies from the norm can only be from their scales.

Also, turn-1 research means an awake pretender 99% of the time (the other 1% is with select nations like MA C'tis who start with a stealthy commander capable of research; in their case a D1N1 assassin).