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My personal favorite is to race to machinery with Qin Shi Huang to get Chokonu. AnimalHusbandary and/or bronzeworking, Wheel, Mysticism, Meditation, Priesthood Build a settler before priesthood Build Oracle asap while reasearching pottery Pick Metal Casting Make forge in 2nd city...

I disagree, those questions I am asking are very specific. First thing, isolated or not does not matter; the issue here is that no tech trades are allowed. I understand how you can race techs easily by lightbulbing then trading, what i am asking is how does it scales if the tech trades are...

If there are no difference in the way you would do things, It would point to the fact that you have instinctively or mathematically found that the optimal path to maximize the beakers is trough GPs, regardless if tech trades are ON or not... And this maximized value is greater than all other...

Ok let me put it this way. You are playing a game with the PLAY NOW settings + No Tech Trades. You are allowed to run your research the way you want. The questions is : Is there any difference regarding decisions for your GPP production, infrastructure and tile improvements you would make...

I understand perfectly that it is gonna be a mix of both because the first few GPs are cheap to get. So maybe a fourth question would be : When should I stop focusing on producing GPPs? After the 4th or 5th? Or is it worth it to continually produce massive GPPs compared to growing cottages...

I care, do you have a valuable answer?

At one point you are gonna be choosing between running specialist or working cottages to grow them in the long run. These are trade-off and both can be ideal depending on the situation. The situation is "There are no tech trades. What do you do". Will that affect your decision?

I know that. The question is, would you go heavy specialist if there are no tech trades.

I'd say you could war for economic reasons. Let's say that you are close leader in GNP and someone else on another continent is leading. You could make a Carrier Battlegroup and go bomb the cottages and blockade all ports. Soon enough you get the lead without even landing an expeditionary force.

I was wondering, is it possible to be competitive with an heavy SE in an immortal/deity game with tech trades off? From my understanding, to be able to compete you need to lightbulb cultural techs that the AI don't research so you can then trade that tech for numerous others. It seem to me...

I think you need to work on your reading comprehension. But thanks for proving my point anyway.

You are saying that its a bad idea to put my GG on the privateer because people can make frigate? So following this line of though, people should never make privateer right? And what does Peter Minuit has to do in all this? How come its not me who has him? And how come you have more money than...

Oh im not done, im particularly puzzled by this post of yours : http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=306024 What do you do if your first dragoon die? Suicide all your stuff and keep making a single dragoon to grief people? Rage quit? And then you say the best counter...