BlessingsBeUponYou
Chieftain
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Blessings be upon you!
I played around 150-200 turns of Babylon yesterday after I randomly rolled them to start. The turns went fine (and I found I actually like Babylon a lot), despite my capital being about 8 tiles from Denmark's capital, but I really struggled with what to do with Babylon's science. It felt like I was racing through the tech tree faster than I could do anything with what I had researched. Between units, buildings, and Wonders, my capital could not keep up with everything available to me. When I finished one unit, I had already teched for a Wonder I wanted. By the time I built the Wonder, two more buildings came up which were important to infrastructure. It felt like a manic circle of unlocking everything and rabidly trying to build it all as fast as possible, and largely failing. I was playing catch-up the entire game to my own science. Obviously the above game is specific to Babylon, but there are a number of Civs with really strong science output.
What is prioritized with such Civs? Do I lean into their science output and get my science as ridiculous as possible as fast as possible and then play catch-up? This is what I did in this particular game, getting Goddess of Wisdom and spamming GS with Tradition. Or am I supposed to invest in other things because the Civ has great science built-in?
I played around 150-200 turns of Babylon yesterday after I randomly rolled them to start. The turns went fine (and I found I actually like Babylon a lot), despite my capital being about 8 tiles from Denmark's capital, but I really struggled with what to do with Babylon's science. It felt like I was racing through the tech tree faster than I could do anything with what I had researched. Between units, buildings, and Wonders, my capital could not keep up with everything available to me. When I finished one unit, I had already teched for a Wonder I wanted. By the time I built the Wonder, two more buildings came up which were important to infrastructure. It felt like a manic circle of unlocking everything and rabidly trying to build it all as fast as possible, and largely failing. I was playing catch-up the entire game to my own science. Obviously the above game is specific to Babylon, but there are a number of Civs with really strong science output.
What is prioritized with such Civs? Do I lean into their science output and get my science as ridiculous as possible as fast as possible and then play catch-up? This is what I did in this particular game, getting Goddess of Wisdom and spamming GS with Tradition. Or am I supposed to invest in other things because the Civ has great science built-in?