How to Bulb Astronomy?

outofthebox · Oct 24, 2012

Hi!

So yeah we all like to bulb important stuff asap...

So how do you guys bulb Astro?

for example to bulb optics, i skip meditation otherwise my G.scientists wants to bulb philosophy...

so to bulb Astronomy what should i avoid to force my G.scientists to go for Astro?

-btw do other G.people bulb astro besides scientists?

or any other ways to get astro asap?

Power_of_Beer · Oct 24, 2012

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/greatpeople_tech.php

Great Artists can bulb it too it seems, but at very low preference. I usually use liberalism.

Neshalin · Oct 24, 2012

You can use the reference on this very site: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/greatpeople_tech.php

A great scientist should thus be able to grab Astronomy if you forego Code of Laws and Civil Service.
A great artist can bulb astronomy but prefers so many other techs you're better off researching it yourself.

Edit: beaten to it.

strijder20 · Oct 24, 2012

Bulb Paper, Philo and Edu with GSes, research Liberalism, take Astro as free tech.
Anything else is rather hard and unnecessarily difficult with an easy liberalism, unless you're playing Mali, Congo, the Dutch, Prussia or America (three of which already start with Astro).
Are you trying to go for the Polish UHV? In that case, this is certainly the best way, since you net liberalism on the way too.

outofthebox · Oct 24, 2012

yeah lib ofc, but yeah i was looking for the non lib bulb way skipping certain techs. thx for help :-)

I am playing Portugal atm... trying to do Portugal historical way, meaning not zerging down spain.

The hardest part is Settler spamming since only european city can build settlers before Astro, which means Lisboa only/cordoba... So i thought getting astro quickly. Usualy i steal it from Spain at around 1550 on Emperor level.

iOnlySignIn · Oct 27, 2012

^ What strijder said.

In DoC it's impossible to bulb Astronomy with a GS (you get Paper/Education/Printing Press instead) if you play a European civ because you start with Code of Laws + Civil Service. Liberalism is the only way to fast Astronomy.

Also Portugal doesn't need early Astronomy as much as you can pre-place all your Settlers with your UU after Optics.

blizzrd · Oct 27, 2012

iOnlySignIn said:
Liberalism is the only way to fast Astronomy.

I once popped Astronomy from the goody hut on Easter Island. :king:

Akbarthegreat · Oct 27, 2012

blizzrd said:
I once popped Astronomy from the goody hut on Easter Island.

I remember getting it a lot of times in vanilla RFC in the NA goody huts. Get a caravel and explorer, and start poppin' huts

archcapitalist · Oct 28, 2012

yeah, i hit all the huts as soon as i get optics, and i find astronomy is the most likely tech to get popped for whatever reason. easter island or the one on new zealand, too

How to Bulb Astronomy?

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