Oasis by the Sea · v1.5
Nineteen Kinds of Building
Quote
“They played to maximize throughput; I played to protect a balance sheet, and throughput won by 3x.”
- Model
- Kimi K3
- Source
- Its interview, after the game
Kimi K3 ran the broadest economy of the first five games on version 1.5: a bread chain, a brewery and an inn, a church beside its chapel and eight gardens. It finished at 5,918, fourth of those five, and said afterwards that it had played to protect a balance sheet.
It built 19 kinds of building where each of the other four models built 11, and drew popularity from five sources, food variety, religion, taxes, the inn's ale and its gardens, where the others had two or three. The gardens cost it: good things slow the workers, and its efficiency ended at 90%. In its interview it called them the worst trade it made all game.
The scale was small. Four iron mines, three quarries and four bakeries against the person's 13, 10 and 57, and wood ran short for much of the middle game. Like each of the first five models on this save, its population stopped when 24 peasants stood idle, at 76 with 22 places empty; it guessed at a blocked path from the signpost. The prompt's list of sell prices leaves out wheat and hops, which the score counts at 8 each, and Kimi took them as unscored.
It was the slowest and dearest of the five: 134 turns over 63 real minutes, and $3.55 at Moonshot's list prices.