One of the AI took 28 turns to grow to size 2. Worker first? Would make sense, at 5
/turn.
The top 5 cities display shows the Great Lighthouse city is at size 2 T30. So are we. So building a couple of workboats is also consistent. Whether the AI does things like we have done, I don't know.
T18 somebody grew to size 3. Quite impressive how fast that is - a 4 food tile needed at least.
Yes, a 4-food tile is needed, or a 3-food tile and a capital supplying a third food (e.g. settled on grassland corn). Since even unimproved fish are only 2
, it's hard to see GLH being involved (and their capital is tiny anyway). I don't think there are any natural unimproved 4-food tiles. "Wet" corn only gets the bonus once you irrigate it. Oasis or inland lake can't do it. So I think the map resources or settler location have been modified somehow.
An AI also grew to size 4 on T27. The best food production grew by two on T19, and again by one on T28. This is consistent with the fast AI working central+first for 6
throughout, the second tile providing 2
, and the third tile providing 1
, and no tile improvements yet (likely, since growing and producing few
). Their next growth would be due T41 if they kept growing and working these tiles. The top-cities display shows only one city with 4 population.
Only Europeans who start with Mysticism (and could found Buddhism on T12) are Holy Rome and Spain. I guess Byzantine and Celts are also European, but don't seem right for the scenario. I'm willing to bet it was Izzy.
Charlemagne can't have founded Buddhism, because you think the owner is Spiritual. Justinian and Brennus are outside chances, accordingly.
The slow Hinduism time suggests that it may have been someone teching Medi then Poly - 12+17 or so. Izzy is a leading candidate for doing that. Her tech strategy is basically hard-coded to try to found every religion. Charlemagne has often seemed to get Hinduism in my test games, and at a time consistent with immediate Polytheism, which EOT29 is not. If so, this is fairly bad news. Izzy will spread only Buddhism and we may face a holy alliance.
If so, then they're all going to hate our guts. If we get it spread to us, then they're all going to hassle us to switch to it. The AP will be Buddhist and we will get dogpiled and have to defy declarations of peace. Razing it may be a serious option - also hacks off their free
in buildings. If we happen to found Confu or Taoism, or have another religion spread to us, and want to run Pacificism, we may as well add to the hate
Depending on the map type (whether getting Domination land and pop is feasible) we're going to have to kill at least 3-4 of the AIs outright.
OTOH if the AP universal-religion spreads to us before the war and we want to run Pacificism on that religion for the
, then that's OK. We might pick up some better tech trades - even a gift from the GLH owner (Joao's offered me Masonry once). We'll still want to consider razing the AP, however.
. Not even a forest growth to spoil the view. The warrior is hell-bored of his view, and would really like to take some of those rocks and build a big pointy pile. Canhecanhecanhe? 
/turn, then 19 turns at 7 
. I have another settler built awaiting pickup and a worker timed to be ready to go with it to the marble site. I have almost finished a third worker, have two workboats poised for seafood after border pops and have a trireme out. I have already settled the cities that benefit most from access to slavery - few land tiles for generating natural hammers. I have two further city sites staked out to prevent barb spawns. Later sites are planned for a switch to Rep+Caste right about now. I have started tech and paths with a view to GLib rather than Colossus. If we'd had bronze, then I reckon Colossus would have been better than one or two of these settlers.
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