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Actually, trade routes give commerce, so having them will not result in a positive cash flow at 100% science. Specialists, shrines, wonders, corporations, hammer conversion, and resource trades can result in this.

For me, pottery is mostly about granaries, which are mostly about whipping. If for some reason, I get bronze working abnormally early I will likely get pottery first and maybe whip a few axes/workers. Usually, I prefer writing because cottages are just so slow.

I noticed one of the diplo demerits was " A first impression is a lasting one." I have never seen this before, what does it mean?

Based on the high quality of your capital, I would wager that there is at least one AI within 15 tiles of you. Can't find the thread, but somebody proposed that strong capitals meant cramped lands. Seems true enough.

As has already been said, your tech priority needs to be reconsidered. Another new priority is to trade for MC, since if most of you tech is hammer based, this is a 25% increase. Replaceable parts will be valuable to turn plains hills into an equivalent of grass hills with mines (windmill in...

You need more workers. Oh wait, sorry. Force of habit. Welcome!

So, once again the uber-workshop is the best source of production possible thanks to hammer multipliers. Oh well, rushbuying still has its place. As a side note, this makes sense in a way. You would have thought more people would have noticed the otherwise insane potential of rushbuying.

So having production buildings lowers the cost of rush buying? My newbiness is showing again it seems. Ignore the rest is you want. I am analyzing the statement of "late hammers are inefficient". Or you could skip to the bottom for the conclusion. If both gold and base hammers go through the...

I rarely use many building anyway. The commerce cities are so slow building them, and the military cities don't need many. Lack of granaries would be annoying, but thankfully you are creative. no border pops without religion/caste would be a pain! Get ready to feel some culture pressure.

Ack! Your previous attempt, you had riverside workshops. What is wrong with this, you ask? Should be watermills! Same hammers, more food unless I am mistaken.

1W would get the resources in question, while leaving the bald tile in the cross and avoiding the predicted plains. This is likely what I will do.

As has been mentioned, they never lock it so you can use the trial forever. Or you could download 7-zip, which is freeware. Pretty much the same program. Anyone else thinking 1ne to get the wheat, grass hill, and open irrigation to the 2 grains?

@Cerberus Religions provide gold, not commerce. Bureaucracy does not help religions. Anyway, I usually move my palace to my best commerce city, bureaucracy, academy, Oxford. Yep. Moving the palace can be a pain, but if it is possible this makes an amazing beaker output. State property...

I would definitely follow this series. I have for far too long been a slave to cottages, and when none can be laid I need to kill somebody who has them. When this fails... Anyway, I would love to see a series based on this. More opportunities to learn.

Played the game myself. If you block off your half of the island, which can be done with one additional city if you SIP, you will be way too busy expanding to bother fighting. I was totally peaceful until liberalism ==> steel for cannons. That is how you should war in this case. Advice for...

The culture slider does not help happiness without theaters, coliseums, and if memory serves broadcast towers. If these are not laying around, build them and put science back on in the interim.

I had the option to select everybody in the game. Tried not to take too goof of a look at it though. And may I ask where the name came from? Half full?

It is almost always better to build wealth than science because you can put that gold through beaker multipliers like libraries. Actually, no situation comes to mind where research is better. They must exist though. Building wealth for me is used when I can not afford more military. Switch the...

Interesting. You can't rely on AI getting alphabet as much if there are few other civs. This is pretty good to know! I also find it surprising that there is no parameter for what resources are laying around, much as MrDoe noted. The latter isn't so useful, but interesting.

Capitulation is actually more complicated than that. If memory serves you need a 2x power advantage and a large amount of war success. I suppose killing their SOD could effectively yield this. My war strategies... they usually involve bribing. Get my target fighting somebody else, their SOD is...