John Company 2nd Edition: 1758 Solo - PART 3

[@jonathanhope3672]

I get thrashed on the easy difficulty! Well done, love these play throughs

[@chiproush7480]

it's a bold attempt, to take on the Crown at "Expert" level! Thanks for showing off your magnificent solo mode.

[@BoxofDelights]

my pleasure! thank you for watching, R.R.

[@dereksimmons5877]

Can you explain longest route at 21:25? I see it as having the same number as Madras, since their home ports are connected with a continuous open route and Madras would win out on the AI card tiebreak?

[@BoxofDelights]

Great question: The longest trade route is defined as the most orders that president could fill given an unlimited number of ships; and given you can't trade into or through another presidency's home region, Bombay becomes the longest. It's a rule called "Home Region Privileges" on page 20 of the rulebook.

[@dereksimmons5877]

@@BoxofDelights How funny...if a president had tried to trade I would have remembered that rule, but I've always missed it when calculating route length. Thanks for setting me straight.

[@MichaelNorrish]

Think the DoT wanted to transfer a player writer away from (rather than to) the P with longest route, so you wouldn’t get that writer £ in Bombay.

[@BoxofDelights]

@@MichaelNorrish Good catch! I don't know why I as looking for writers in Bengal at 20:55 .. sometimes my brain is a mystery, even to me !

[@MichaelNorrish]

Thanks for a fun watch!

[@BoxofDelights]

pleasure! Thanks for watching :)

[@browe]

I'm legitimately curious to learn: how did you tune the economy of those promise cubes across so many scenarios?

[@BoxofDelights]

that's a big question with a long answer.... ! basically it comes to spending over a year on it, playing and observing, developing and refining.

[@browe]

@@BoxofDelights Quite understandable!