Cyc
Looking for the door...
Toxicman007 will probably need the save, TO.
This is a tougher game than I expected! I looked at the trading options and this is what I think:
If it makes anyone feel better, we are FAR ahead of the Greek with techs.
- Mayan will give peace & 38gp (all gold) for Literature or Monarchy. No gpt.
- Babylonians will give 49gp (all gold) for Literature or Monarchy. No gpt.
- China will give 18gp (all gold) for Literature or Monarchy. No gpt.
- Dutch will give Construction, CoL, 80gp for Monarchy. No gpt. Literature will get CoL & 80gp (all gold) . Literature, 16gp (of 29gp) and 9gpt (turning down science) will get us Construction.
- Hittites will give Construction and 16gp (all gold) for Monarchy. No gpt. Literature, 22gp (of 29gp) and 10gpt (turning down science) will also get us Construction.
- Arabia will give 7gp & 2 slaves for Monarchy or Literature.
I think the best path here is to make the deal with the Dutch for Monarchy. Even if Monarchy loses value for the Mayans, we will pick up 2 more techs they dont have that we can trade for peace. CoL is also a monopoly at the moment.
That done, we lift the two slaves off Arabia, trading CoL and Construction rather than Monarchy if we can get away with it.
Next we go to the Mayans and give them anything but Literature (last) and Monarchy if we have to. Otherwise give them Construction and/or CoL, whatever will get them off our back.
Then shop around CoL to pick all the extra gold that is lying around. That should give us everything and still keep us on top with Lit, but well need to keep checking Diplo every turn for when Currency shows up and we can grab it.
Until then we can start on republic, start on currency ourselves, or stop research until we can trade into the Middle Ages.
Just dl'd the save. Will try and follow your outline above. Let's hope we can stay alive. Maybe Toxicman007 didn't post for a good reason. Maybe we lose 25% - 50% of our cities this turn.Oops. Must have got my line up out of order.
Cyc do you want to play a set to keep us moving along?