Recent content by odin1981

Lol I'm a medically retired US Marine.

Post 12+ cities where like for the game I'm currently playing where at 0% with 13 cities I get +144 at 0% but at 100% I get -193 gold per turn. Which is at around 1100 BC currently.

What changes the math is because of the costs of the above mentioned three, at 0% you are not getting full 100% GPT at 0%. At the timeframe of the game the only modifier building you can have which isn't cheap either is the library and only effects BPT. Maybe the settings I play at make it more...

Because the civic cost, unit cost, city maintenance cloud's the issue. In a vacuum 100% and 0% is the best way. But when you take into account those top three into the equation it changes things around. However I did preface everything by saying in a stretched economy things change. So a very...

If you have enough gold to run 4 turns at 50 over 3 at 0 and one at 100. The 3/1 would be 64 total over 4. Where as the 4 at 50 would be 32×4 so 128.

I didn't mean a early switch to capital moving my apologies. But from the land I saw on it, potentially long term you could move it to there later if it was more preferable. Because I've played for year's I tend to have a much longer term view than just the initial "what's it look like"...

In my example I provided, 3 turns at 0 funded one turn at 100%. So in what I provided in my example 56 base commerce plus 25% from the two cities that have libraries made 64 BPT. So those 4 turns gave you 64 beaker's. However running at 50% for 4 turns would give you 32 BPT due to your beaker...

I said if it takes 3+ turns of 0% to gain one turn of 100% research then a 50% if BPT was a even # at 100% is better. But if not a even # of commerce, yes you lose a beaker per turn. If you really stretch your economy to it's limit's yes it happens. Granted only Darius and Huyana are going to be...

If you have a even amount of beaker's per turn at 100% research, and your government is stretched by # of cities you have settled you can run research at 50% to cut costs due to city maintenance as you beeline to currency to recover your economy again. Because you won't have a rounding error and...

That's fine, not too far for the quality of land. Probably long term want to move capital their. I would suggest scouting a little bit E of floodplain's to see the best place to plop down the city. When you settle it farm 1 FP and cottage other 4. Another possibility is farming 3-4 FP's...

I'd move scout NW,?, depending on what I saw, probably NW again. Moving the settler I would start NE.

Given the difficulty level I would think long and hard about settling on t3-4 after some movement. Barb's are gonna annoy you, the two starting techs of Celt's are trash, and aside from forest's and the gold but limited food it doesn't feel like a strong capital. Granted I played on diety/immortal.

Also from what it looks like if you scout two N from initial scout position you might start to see them. With the scout, I would then start going southwest to see what's around by the elephants to see if you should settle on them or not for second city. The pine trees are also important to note...

Been awhile since I've played but if I remember types of trees correctly your in the south portion of your continent and unfortunately 8-12 moves N of jungle. You play on standard size correct?

In about two weeks I will be playing again. I have to fix my computer. I read through the thread just to see what happened. I saw you mentioned that you where hoping to not go a war strategy. However the reason that quite a few people pushed for that direction was opponent based. Boudica and...