Micro Challenge V

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After a long hiatus (my laptop's HD and MB fried up), the 5th instalment is finally here! As promised, this one looks at research.

I'd ask for spoilers to be used so that nothing is given away too easily. You're free to talk about anything else though.

Be advised that you may find answers if you look at spoilers...

Micro Challenge V
This is your start. I took the liberty of playing the first 50 turns... poorly.


These are the techs I researched (and a few extra that were given as freebie!).


Shaka isn't a techer by any stretch, yet he's quite greedy.
He's forgotten to tell his workers about cottages (despite the knowledge of Pottery) and will not part himself from any of his possessions.

The challenge: complete the following tasks:
Normal : complete Alphabet by turn 70. Do not delete/gift any units or cities. No cottages allowed!

Hard : complete Alphabet by turn 68. Do not delete/gift any units or cities. No cottages allowed!

Nightmare : complete Alphabet by turn 67. Do not delete/gift any units or cities. No cottages allowed!


In case there's any further doubt, you must be able to build research on either turn 70, 68 or 67 to complete the task, not the in-between-turns.

Settings
To avoid problems, events and barbarians will be disabled.
Always peace is on for this one as well as no city flip by culture.
Finally, no technology trading is enabled as well... no trading for you!

Difficulty
Economical recovery... for the REXers out there.
I didn't test very extensively to get these difficulty settings (basically, I added 5&10 turns for end date - blame my laziness to recreate the challenge)... maybe you can do even better than the nightmare difficulty

Solution
To be posted later...

Noooo!
I missed. Time for a second run.

I need to concentrate. And focus on a pattern. Look at this remaining treasury. Look at that useless building.

Time to retry.

First (To quote those intelligent people we find in all corners of internets)

Lol at microing people. Historically there were macrobians (who were black (no offense pls) like Shaka btw), but microing people...

You almost have enough spare gold for 2 turns of research ...

As I said, no focus at all. (Real one, not as some pretends)

Change your avatar. That Hatty face gotta got on mah nerves.

aww missed by 1 turn, need to try again later

My is playing right. Sad I can't see.

Lol third attempt and still T69. I think normal should be T69, then T68 for hard and T67 for nightmare.

Too bad. Imma bad playuh now. Will try again tomorrow. It's gotta be late here.

Hmm, perhaps yes. I'll adjust after a few more submissions !

Noobie's first thoughts:

I tried many times and T69 also seems to be my maximum

All those aluminium hills are very intelligent from you, kossin.

Techically, this is T67.

My best so far

My first attempt - turn 72.

Arrgh. So close...

Can't get any better than T71

T70. I'll stop here.

T67 - Though I don't think it's the good way to do it