Robert Smith
Prince
I thought it was impossible but now i have 282 bpt on turn 140 with Greek (immortal)This is one of the key ideas if you want to get a really fast science victory. In the games where I've been winning around turn 230 I have taken all of tradition and then straight into rationalism. This can be tricky or simple depending on your tech rate. In my best game I had 290 bpt on turn 140, and if you can accelerate your science that fast it makes getting acoustics or astronomy open in time a much easier task.
I've been going for 3 or 4 cities depending on dirt, settling my second city with a rush bought library and then building NC in the capital before expanding to the 3rd or 4th city.
Getting Education as quickly as possible is important, so you want to tech for your resources and then beeline it through Civil Service. Then if you have observatory spots you can take the water techs and into Astronomy, or just take Acoustics alternatively.
You want Education fast so you can start running scientists but also so you can sign RAs as early as possible. In GandK you need to sign 4 waves of RAs, as things stand now, in order to complete the required spaceship techs. It's for this reason that babylon is still the best science civ, the early accelerated bpt gets Education open faster than any other civ. So if you finish Education on turn 90 your RAs will come on 120, 150, 180 and 210 giving you 20 turns to build the parts. The later you sign the RAs the later you will finish.
The amount of DoFs limits how fast you can finish, but I've found on deity that 4 - 6 stable partners is normal. The early RAs matter much less than the later ones.
295 bpt if I use my 3 market specialist (T140).
Are u using specialist except science (sometimes I use workshop)?
I wait until the last 8 turn before i use GS (maximize), is this wrong?
I only build 2 Academies
Are u building any Trading posts?
I was distracted that 5 AI DoW (only contact with 3) on me so education was done T99. 2 cities with observatorium, 1 Jungle city and my Capital. I rush bought 2 library, 2 universities and 1 observatory. Open rationalism with Oracle on T113 (Astronomy). 4 RA partners (2 @ T129 and 2 @ T134/135). I have 10 lux (5 diff)
I have meet 15 of 16 CS and only one is Culture (+26 when Ally)... It will be hard to get 2 free tech
It's fun to compete with AI using spies and coup Culture and Maritime CS
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