Finish Philosophy?

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Shall we continu or research of Philosophy which will lead to a pretty useless tech, or shall we start researching something else?

We could start research more usefull techs like mathematics or metal casting.

What are your opinions?
 
I don't know that our economy can sustain further expansion (-44/pt, even if our fine president halved science spending we'd be down -13/pt) so I'd think that we'd want to trade mathematics for "not a beating" from the Mongols.

This mathematics could lead to an interesting way of representing wealth (call it currency for sake of argument) that could go a long way to sustaining our growing empire.
 
I agree, currency could be very good, because it gives +1:traderoute: in every city, and it gives a bonus to researching Code of Laws
 
I'm a big fan of trading techs and often go down this tech branch just to get Drama/Music to trade. You seem to have declared war on your best trading partner though and are not too friendly with the other civs.

So if you can see a good trade, then go for it. Otherwise you don't even have a religion for Angkor Wat.
 
I'm still proposing Literacy ( 11t with 50% reserch rate ) and then choping forests to get TGLibrary. But firts we should stop the war, sign a peace treaty with math as a ransom.

So turn the reserch to 50% and literacy, kick some more Mongolian but ( pillage some cotages and other stuff ) and then peace treaty + ransom math ( when mongols will have no other choice ). After that choop GTL as fast as we can.
 
donsig said:
How many turns are we from getting philosophy? Math? Metal Casting?
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check ministry of science thread:

at 100% research Philosophy 7 turns, Metal Casting 12 turns, Math 7 turns

I don't know how long the war will be but if we're going to ask for peace then we could possibly get Math for free.
 
Rihiter said:
I'm still proposing Literacy ( 11t with 50% reserch rate ) and then choping forests to get TGLibrary. But firts we should stop the war, sign a peace treaty with math as a ransom.

So turn the reserch to 50% and literacy, kick some more Mongolian but ( pillage some cotages and other stuff ) and then peace treaty + ransom math ( when mongols will have no other choice ). After that choop GTL as fast as we can.
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do we have the ability to chop the great library fast enough to beat the civs on the other continent? If they've beaten us to philopsophy they could also be going for the Great Library.
 
according to the code of laws, I should have a list of at least 3 technologies we should research, and in the correct order

The current suggestion is:
Literature, (get Math from Mongolia), Currency, ?Code of Laws/Construction?
 
Mr Minister of Science...

Please be aware that we cannot talk to Mongolia( refusing our communication) and that we might not be able to get Math. I hope a cooling off period of a few turns may allow them to come to the bargining table. I will contact the SoW and request that all hostilities cease so we can start this cooling off period inorder for us to get math for your scientists.
 
The plan right now is getting peace right? So we should be cooling of anyway.
 
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