Research Power for the Industrial Times.

We just had an 8+ hour very successful turnchat. Russia is gone. Babylon is gone. We built Smith's Trading and Newton's. We learned steam power and electricity.

But we have to strengthen our research power. Currently, we run about -200gpt to research fast. We can't finance this much longer.

With the war over, we should now switch to libraries and universities to strengthen our lead and get in shape for the (minor) wars with India and Germany and the great struggle with Persia.

Thus I propose the following immediate switches/builds (in sequence of science power in the cities):

Deux Riviere: university
Sanction: university
Montpellier: university
Huntington: market, university
Vo Mimbre: university
Santa Lucia: library, market, university
Mure: market, university

This will also help to strengthen our culture, which is still weaker than Persia or even Egypt.

Please discuss, I will create a poll later.

Edit/add: Groton builds university after iron works (done in 4 turns! terrific)

And also lower the science slider. Money is needed.
For that we will also need markets and banks.
Factories will be online in the foresee-able future. I think we also do want them.

RM: you are correct. I modified my above post to include markets. Banks we only need 5 in order to enable Wall Street. If I counted correctly, we have 4 already.

a good plan can be to begin production of culture in the southern cities we just took over, while bring out the markets and banks in or more northern or higher production cities. Factories will also start there.

We're also going to need rushes in towns bordering India and Germany. They have more culture than us.

thats what I meant.

The poll is here.