Doc Tsiolkovski
Deity
On the higher levels, it's a common occurance that you capture the Great Library after 2 or more other Civs know Education already, thus you can get advanced techs when you own the Great Library for one turn; you also get Education, so the GL obsoletes the very same turn.
To maximize this, you can even avoid Education deliberatedly, stay in Monarchy, head towards Miitary Tradition, and conquer the GL with your Cavalries (works extremly well with those Civs with Cav-based UUs).
Have done this multiple times in ptw, and it always yielded the expected result.
Note it is possible that several Civs are one Tech ahead of you when you can check for the first time (AI research phase is between your production and active turn), it even is possible that exactly 2 Civs know exactly the same 2 Techs you didn't get.
Now, in c3c the Great Library works different - in such an odd way, that I'd call it a bug:
1) You get all available mandatory Techs; if you're missing an advanced Tech, the logical explanation is above.
2) You sometimes don't get all non-required Techs of that era you end in after the GL effect, like Democracy, Printing Press, etc. (It happened to me that I didn't get any of them except Navigation, despite 4 AI Civs knowing demo, eco, PP, but where still in the MA)
3) You get all non-required Techs of completed eras, like Republic/ Monarchy, or the plethora of MA ones later, except....
4) You never seem to get Music Theory.
I can provide several saves to confirm that, but my main question is:
Has someone ever gotten Music Theory from a c3c Great Library?
To maximize this, you can even avoid Education deliberatedly, stay in Monarchy, head towards Miitary Tradition, and conquer the GL with your Cavalries (works extremly well with those Civs with Cav-based UUs).
Have done this multiple times in ptw, and it always yielded the expected result.
Note it is possible that several Civs are one Tech ahead of you when you can check for the first time (AI research phase is between your production and active turn), it even is possible that exactly 2 Civs know exactly the same 2 Techs you didn't get.
Now, in c3c the Great Library works different - in such an odd way, that I'd call it a bug:
1) You get all available mandatory Techs; if you're missing an advanced Tech, the logical explanation is above.
2) You sometimes don't get all non-required Techs of that era you end in after the GL effect, like Democracy, Printing Press, etc. (It happened to me that I didn't get any of them except Navigation, despite 4 AI Civs knowing demo, eco, PP, but where still in the MA)
3) You get all non-required Techs of completed eras, like Republic/ Monarchy, or the plethora of MA ones later, except....
4) You never seem to get Music Theory.
I can provide several saves to confirm that, but my main question is:
Has someone ever gotten Music Theory from a c3c Great Library?