subbed. its been an excellent read and i like these kinds of threads.
Must disagree in the strongest possible terms with pagodas. As I suspected, and recently confirmed with forum sage, puppets cannot buy pagodas. So if you want to ICS and conquer, take religious centers.
is just the wrong way to doArcher (only on your first expansion and only on Deity, ignore it otherwise)
Why do you stagnate your cities to 3? Wouldnt it be better to stagnate half cities to 2 and half to 4?
I ask this is because library gives +1 science for every 2 citizen. So library in size one city gives zero research. Size 2 and 3 it gives +1 and size 4 and 5 it gives +2
So if you have 10 size 3 cities you get +10 science from libraries
If you have 5 size 4 and 5 size 2 you get +15 science from libraries.
@ tommynt...a few questions if you don't mind. All this is SP related.
3) Pyramids? Can you reliably get them following this BO playing Immortal or worse yet, Deity? I presume on Emperor you'd be able to build that wonder.
1) Monument before scout? I presume that you've found that the loss from missing a ruin or two due to the later scout and also maybe 15 or 30 lost gold as you are first to meet a couple CS is less important than getting Liberty and then other SP's open ASAP?
2) When killing one neighbor early, do you leave them with a crappy city to avoid war monger hatred or do you just finish them off completely? Do you puppet their non-capitol cities or raze and rebuild into your ICS? Obviously killing a neighbor both eliminates a threat and gives you more room for ideal cities for your ICS.
3) Pyramids? Can you reliably get them following this BO playing Immortal or worse yet, Deity? I presume on Emperor you'd be able to build that wonder.
5) Your waiting for Piety to build the shrine in the cap? Doesn't this mean that you're late getting a pantheon? Couldn't it even mean missing a Religion on Deity. However, once 5 shrines are quickly built, your faith is impressive.
.. thx .. neilkaz ,,