futurehermit
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I just tried this with Mao. Monarch.
I pulled it off! BUT, only at 700BC, which is pretty late imo. Ideal is 1200 BC. Good is 1000BC.
I admit though that I diverted for Masonry and The Wheel early on because I had marble in my Oracle (2nd) city. I used the marble to also get Parthenon, since I researched polyth instead of medit. Philosophical, parthenon, plus pyramids for specialist strat, PLUS early metal casting and preventing the AI from getting oracle. OMFG!!! this is INSANE, lol!
i'm going to try again, despite the great start, because I want to try to get it earlier. i'm going to try just going: bronze-myst-medit-priest-pottery-metcast (free)-masonry. in this game i went: bronze-the wheel-masonry-myst-poly-priest-pottery.
if i can get this consistently by 1200 BC i'm going to be going insane!!!
i've been playing gandhi for the fast worker and industrious trait, since i've felt industrious to be essential. but if i can guarantee pyramids w/out industrious trait, that would be HUGE, because i'd really love to have phil and there's no ind-phil Mao is also has the best starting techs imho. plus i'm a huge fan of organized because of the cheap courthouses and cheap lighthouses. courthouses you build in every city and lighthouses in every coastal city. that's a LOT of hammers over the course of the game.
man, this was a great idea, good job!
edit: oops, i forgot to mention that i don't think the 8turn window is accurate, i think it's much shorter! i had two workers sitting waiting on two forests for when oracle was done. as soon as it was done, they chopped (2 turns, forgot to prechop). then i 2-pop rushed the forge (1 turn). then i set the engineer (1 turn). this *tied* my forge city's and oracle city's gp rate! fortunately, the ge still popped! so this is a window of 4 turns, with 3 being better. this was normal speed.
I pulled it off! BUT, only at 700BC, which is pretty late imo. Ideal is 1200 BC. Good is 1000BC.
I admit though that I diverted for Masonry and The Wheel early on because I had marble in my Oracle (2nd) city. I used the marble to also get Parthenon, since I researched polyth instead of medit. Philosophical, parthenon, plus pyramids for specialist strat, PLUS early metal casting and preventing the AI from getting oracle. OMFG!!! this is INSANE, lol!
i'm going to try again, despite the great start, because I want to try to get it earlier. i'm going to try just going: bronze-myst-medit-priest-pottery-metcast (free)-masonry. in this game i went: bronze-the wheel-masonry-myst-poly-priest-pottery.
if i can get this consistently by 1200 BC i'm going to be going insane!!!
i've been playing gandhi for the fast worker and industrious trait, since i've felt industrious to be essential. but if i can guarantee pyramids w/out industrious trait, that would be HUGE, because i'd really love to have phil and there's no ind-phil Mao is also has the best starting techs imho. plus i'm a huge fan of organized because of the cheap courthouses and cheap lighthouses. courthouses you build in every city and lighthouses in every coastal city. that's a LOT of hammers over the course of the game.
man, this was a great idea, good job!
edit: oops, i forgot to mention that i don't think the 8turn window is accurate, i think it's much shorter! i had two workers sitting waiting on two forests for when oracle was done. as soon as it was done, they chopped (2 turns, forgot to prechop). then i 2-pop rushed the forge (1 turn). then i set the engineer (1 turn). this *tied* my forge city's and oracle city's gp rate! fortunately, the ge still popped! so this is a window of 4 turns, with 3 being better. this was normal speed.