Elenhil,
Not at all, the beginning of the game would steer the ancient player to ancient techs, it would be primarily power players trying to make an out of the box strategy that grabs out of era techs early. Creating many choices that very from generally good to situationaly good and vary from immediate returns to long term returns. Have a look at the short list I made, Education is the non-liner choice there but it is not substantially worse (or substantially better) than teching in line. It is a good idea in some situations and not in others. In this case if someone wants to focus research on improving research and has lots of spare production to build libraries right away they should go writing, if they need to build an army now but can see in the future they will have the ability to build then education first is better (since they wouldn't be using libraries anyway)
Different but balanced.
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Not at all, the beginning of the game would steer the ancient player to ancient techs, it would be primarily power players trying to make an out of the box strategy that grabs out of era techs early. Creating many choices that very from generally good to situationaly good and vary from immediate returns to long term returns. Have a look at the short list I made, Education is the non-liner choice there but it is not substantially worse (or substantially better) than teching in line. It is a good idea in some situations and not in others. In this case if someone wants to focus research on improving research and has lots of spare production to build libraries right away they should go writing, if they need to build an army now but can see in the future they will have the ability to build then education first is better (since they wouldn't be using libraries anyway)
Different but balanced.
Cman is off topic trolling, please don't feed the trolls
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