posted 07-16-00 13:10 ET (US)
The Competition Board proudly announces the winners of
The experts once again showed why they are experts. And the king of the water carriers goes to Among the novice players, There were a wide variety of designs and layouts, however, the "X" design shows up frequently in the top layouts. I look forward to a lively discussion from participants on their winning layout design and strategy as well as new things learned in exploiting this much maligned water carrier. 1 Erik Hjortsberg 20 308 203 257 26 2 Plebus 17 249 161 034 21 3 Lepus 15 136 83 152 16 4 Tomek 13 350 77 776 13 5 Jworth 12 579 14 218 12 6 Max 11 762 820 793 11 7 RSC 10 386 97 136 10 8 Dragon2 10 192 38 784 9 9 Andreas Hauffe 10 040 77 363 8 10 Xaphire 5 952 182 337 7 11 Cornelius 5 017 9 464 6 12 cappanna 5 003 14 827 5 13 Stringbags 4 675 136 485 4 14 Kabouter 4 565 102 100 3 15 Vriesea 4 321 252 293 2 16 Grumpus (the Elder) 4 119 164 008 1 17 Saed Hamdan 2 874 78 034 1 18 Pazair 2 443 46 169 1 19 Joshua Whalen 2 156 100 859 1 1 Akhen 9 289 301 254 26 2 bllah 7 620 58 775 21 3 JimMRooney 7 252 588 625 16 4 Eye of Isis 7 084 48 406 13 5 Kermit 6 880 182 294 12 6 dancing 6 403 272 221 11 7 Fresh 6 368 477 334 10 8 Viren 6 294 294 164 9 9 fiona 5 861 239 462 8 10 Henrica 5 516 214 151 7 11 Benton 5 184 148 999 6 12 Pounce the Unfortunate 4 626 40 451 5 13 Gill Britannica 4 296 4 823 4 14 Da Caesar 4 151 320 192 3 15 Regina Coffeit 4 140 326 969 2 16 Bjoern Melbye 4 117 167 469 1 17 Spiff 4 083 23 302 1 18 Pharaoh Inarus 4 039 215 307 1 19 Rosenetka 3 976 142 745 1 20 StarKey 3 640 55 183 1 21 Mentuemhat XXV 3 575 2 467 1 22 Pallas Athena 3 411 220 227 1 23 Merepatra 3 331 301 504 1 24 Neferjili 3 037 132 874 1 25 homegrown 2 695 73 551 1 26 Nimlot Persson 2 595 143 116 1 27 Barbara Smith 2 516 23 076 1 28 Queen Tetisheri 2 465 32 838 1 29 richard brenkman 2 270 133 760 1 30 Gene Kulengowski 2 106 10 715 1 31 Johanna Nissinen 2 101 39 803 1 32 Raymond E. Heuer 1 908 69 894 1 33 andrea 1 553 14 508 1 34 DarthBane 1 539 14 628 1 35 vikram 1 281 40 762 1 36 ATHENA 1 184 24 338 1
) would come along and beat me by 20 citizens after all the work I put into this map (believe me it took some time). My own guess on the theoretical population limit that can be serviced by one watercarrier is somewhere around 22k, possibly a bit higher but not much.
Ah, well...
