The Pilgrim
Deity
I understand. I've really done nothing. I built HS+PT+ND just recently and that's it. But now when I'm thinking about it I did ally CS early, at ~30ish, and I remember selling OB to him so he must have been friendly back then. Gosh, what a wonderful diplomacy system we have here...
Never mind. I'll make him love me whether he wants or not.
Part IV: Gaining the lead
The moment I met Hiawatha I sell him my last and redundant cotton and OB. Unfortunately he is still in Medieval so I don't sign RA with him just yet. I'll wait for a few turns. If he doesn't make it I'd pay the penalty.
Let's have a look at the tech tree:
Economy is crippled. Buildings maintenance starts to add up and my pathetic cities cannot make up for that. At least I'm finishing market in the capital. It will spare couple of gpt.
Harun and Askia made peace. You're predictable guys.
At the end of this turn first RA will resolve and will provide me free amount of beakers equal to current median tech. Which is Banking or Acoustics. Since there are two techs that are more expensive or equal to Banking and two techs that are less expensive or equal. This amount of beaker currently covers 8 turns of research. With my own 1 turn of research I'm about to get roughly 9 turns of scientific progress. Which is enough to discover Steel, Engineering and to carry 3 turns overflow towards Physics. You can never discover more than 1 tech with RA on the same turn thus at most you discover 1 tech with RA and another 1 with overflow+you own research.
Hit the next turn button:
Since the final dude was found caravel explores southern seas and snoops around Persian lands.
As I've said already: that's mutual buddy. I'm not happy though he settled that one tile city. It's on my way.
I sign first RA of the second wave with Ramesses. He's in Renaissance already.
The tech tree:
The numbers you see are deceptive as they were calculated considering the overflow I carried. What should happen next is: RA resolves and gives me roughly the same 8 turns of research from the previous screenshot. 1 turn goes towards Physics and finishes it another 7 are carried on towards Gunpowder and with addition of my own research Gunpowder is supposed to be completed as well. I'm saying 'roughly' because the progress is calculated in terms of beakers and not turns but currently this distinction is negligible.
... At least that was what I thought. Somehow I fell short to complete Gunpowder this turn. I'm not sure how this happened. I believed the initial tech cost is what matters and not the reduced one due to knowing other civs who already have discovered it. Probably I was wrong. Anyways, I'll do some investigation work later and will report.
I discovered Physics on turn 2 and renewed RA with Harun.
Start constructing workshops.
Gunpowder and Acoustics are in and let's have another look at the tech tree:
Since the techs that can currently be researched are Machinery/Banking/Navigation/Chemistry/Metallurgy the RA median shifts up to Navigation.
Demographics:
That's the power of RA's. Or overpower should I say.
Only 3 resolved so far and I'm already a leader in literacy.
No one else entered medieval era so I've decided to wait a bit for renewing another RA.
Next turn Banking and Machinery are competed.
I always make sure to queue up the more expensive tech first and the cheaper one after that. This way I secure the median will not accidentally drop.
One of the scouts finds another Natural wonder. 2 of his brothers are somewhere on the map with only one NW and one CS left to find. So this guy can be dismissed.
Never mind. I'll make him love me whether he wants or not.
Part IV: Gaining the lead
The moment I met Hiawatha I sell him my last and redundant cotton and OB. Unfortunately he is still in Medieval so I don't sign RA with him just yet. I'll wait for a few turns. If he doesn't make it I'd pay the penalty.
Spoiler :
Let's have a look at the tech tree:
Spoiler :
Economy is crippled. Buildings maintenance starts to add up and my pathetic cities cannot make up for that. At least I'm finishing market in the capital. It will spare couple of gpt.
Spoiler :
Harun and Askia made peace. You're predictable guys.
At the end of this turn first RA will resolve and will provide me free amount of beakers equal to current median tech. Which is Banking or Acoustics. Since there are two techs that are more expensive or equal to Banking and two techs that are less expensive or equal. This amount of beaker currently covers 8 turns of research. With my own 1 turn of research I'm about to get roughly 9 turns of scientific progress. Which is enough to discover Steel, Engineering and to carry 3 turns overflow towards Physics. You can never discover more than 1 tech with RA on the same turn thus at most you discover 1 tech with RA and another 1 with overflow+you own research.
Hit the next turn button:
Spoiler :
Since the final dude was found caravel explores southern seas and snoops around Persian lands.
Spoiler :
Spoiler :
As I've said already: that's mutual buddy. I'm not happy though he settled that one tile city. It's on my way.
I sign first RA of the second wave with Ramesses. He's in Renaissance already.
The tech tree:
Spoiler :
The numbers you see are deceptive as they were calculated considering the overflow I carried. What should happen next is: RA resolves and gives me roughly the same 8 turns of research from the previous screenshot. 1 turn goes towards Physics and finishes it another 7 are carried on towards Gunpowder and with addition of my own research Gunpowder is supposed to be completed as well. I'm saying 'roughly' because the progress is calculated in terms of beakers and not turns but currently this distinction is negligible.
... At least that was what I thought. Somehow I fell short to complete Gunpowder this turn. I'm not sure how this happened. I believed the initial tech cost is what matters and not the reduced one due to knowing other civs who already have discovered it. Probably I was wrong. Anyways, I'll do some investigation work later and will report.
I discovered Physics on turn 2 and renewed RA with Harun.
Start constructing workshops.
Spoiler :
Gunpowder and Acoustics are in and let's have another look at the tech tree:
Spoiler :
Since the techs that can currently be researched are Machinery/Banking/Navigation/Chemistry/Metallurgy the RA median shifts up to Navigation.
Demographics:
Spoiler :
That's the power of RA's. Or overpower should I say.
Only 3 resolved so far and I'm already a leader in literacy.
No one else entered medieval era so I've decided to wait a bit for renewing another RA.
Next turn Banking and Machinery are competed.
Spoiler :
I always make sure to queue up the more expensive tech first and the cheaper one after that. This way I secure the median will not accidentally drop.
One of the scouts finds another Natural wonder. 2 of his brothers are somewhere on the map with only one NW and one CS left to find. So this guy can be dismissed.
Spoiler :