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Rather poor results.

May 31, 1302

CV 21M
Population 81K
Ships 275 with 84 captains
Businesses 445

I am suffering under a lack of IG and bricks. And my people can forget about getting skins, wine or pottery.

July 31, 1302

It's no fun playing. One siege after another. Now I will have a severe shortage of IG for the next two months. That means no further expansion.

Helsinki, loss of 12 brickworks and 3 sawmills
London, loss of 4 workshops and 5 breweries
Ladoga, loss of 6 workshops, 4 brickworks and 2 sawmills + 1,200 people moved away
Harlingen, loss of 6 cattle farms, 5 brickworks, 2 sawmills and 2 saltmakers

CV 26M
population 87k
314 ships
496 businesses

Builder: I'm glad your game is going well. I am pleased with lesser results, such as an increase of population, period. The next siege has announced itself in Scarborough. I'm just thrilled - not

August 31, 1302

CV 28M
population 91 k
businesses 516

Still lacking a lot of workers in all towns that have been under siege. Throwing parties has not helped, neither has feeding the poor. At least I have enough CV for my level of population for this year, next year is another story.

I moved in February to Edingburgh and will move to London next month. I already started hauling bricks there. With all that moving action I neglected the remaining Hanse and now have several towns with annoyed citizens. I guess I am going to loose a few thousand people. No biggy, they'll eventually come back. The AI is a major pain in the lower back since those guys build in the most inopportune spaces and have wrecked quite a few building spaces. After London I intend to Helsinki and then to Stettin. I don’t have enough brickyards to complete Helsinki in time for a move to Brugge in August,
I thought that well over 300 vessels were plenty but I am finding myself short on ships.
Several sieges have cost me a substantial amount of businesses; one month ended with less than what I had before, in spite of continued building, but at a much-reduced scale since, IMHO wall building comes first.
I think the annoyed people will not allow me to reach my population goal for the year-end but I still hope to have close to 130 k and sufficient CV to get max points.

April 30, 1302

CV 32.7 M
Population 101,465
Ships 349 with 98 captains
Businesses 632

Happy Easter everyone

Not much to report. Another move done and two more planned for the year. Nothing new happened except for the same old story, I forget to monitor cities. It helps to change from buying to selling when they get large enough. It is tough to bring the fisher back up to over 300 from 2 , or repopulate cattle farms.
Live and learn - no replays for this sailor/trader. In spite of my moves my CV increased, on average, by about 2.5M/month, that' not great but also not too bad.

June 30, 1302

CV 38.8 M
Population 106,353
381 ships with 99 captains (not enough!!!)
563 businesses.

I strongly believe that participating in a contest like this one provides a steep learning curve, way better than puttering along by yourself.

Another quarterly report

I still have one more move scheduled for the year, namely to Stettin. The increase in population is behind schedule but then that's not too bad since it's still a long way to the end. I don't know if it will be enough to build up the entire Hanse, but I should get to 1310, if I haven't screwed up my lots before then. That should be good enough for a space in mid field (spot 15 - 20) which is just fine for me; I can only get better as the years go by. I guess I made the mistake of starting to re-arrange already producing business in the effort to squeeze some additional buildings into the same space, as in one besidse a road gave way to a double-wide block of 4. I also did some reorganization in the towns where I build the 3rd wall.
And now, thanks to some additional explanations, I should be able to get some larger blocks which did not happen in spite of using the building instructions.

September 30, 1302
CV 47 M
Population 115 k
Ships 432 with 101 captains
Businesses 605

I guess I need at least anouther 200 ships before I hit the 300k mark with my population.

The year is done but the results are nothing to write home about. I now manage to build larger blocks but building sprees will have to wait untill the walls are done. Thanks to 5 moves 7 cities now have their 3rd wall while others are still behind the first wall. As I said, I am learning but will not go back to try it better. One round of the contest per year is enough for me. The only thing I am really happy with, besides the fact that I now mange better use of building space, is my CV. I can't touch the New Wolrd finance whizz (his real CV is over 20 M higher than my "real " one) but I manage very well to date.
Since we have a holiday coming up I'll try to complete another year this month but am promising nothing.

December 31, 1302

CV 41.9 M (I am puzzled where 14 M wnt to )
Population 124,126, that puts me at the back of the 1302 group
Ships 487 with 102 captains (we are getting there, 198 more than last year)
Businesses 695 and growing slowly

Just to make sure, I am not trying to catch anybody, I just play to the best of my abilities and am learning quite a bit. But I am confident that I will be able to give several players who are ahead of me, a run for their money next year.