I moved scout SW to see if I would move away from resources by settling on marble. No such resources so on marble it is!
I do some thinking, and see that this capital has potential to be a early production megacenter working cows, ivory, riverside PH and GH and a farmed or cottaged (or just unimproved) floodplain yielding 17 hammers.
With the marble underneth capital, and being a Phi-Cre leader I want to get to writing early for cheap libraries and fast GPersons. I also want to make a try for oracle to get CoL for caste-system and an early religion.
I went AH->Mining->Writing, then started to climb my way up the myst line with myst->poly, then masonry to start putting hammers into ToAr which may be useful to finish, Gprophets can be helpful when going for culture since religions usually play a role (you want access to at least 2 religions, but preferably 3-4, to build cathedrals for +50% culture bonus.
When choose religions is enabled, it's really important to pick the religions that align up with the strategic resources you have, such that you dont' pick judaism if you lack stone for the jewish cathedral.
Here at T5, I'm starting to think about my future cities.
The one on the PH close to the fish has alot of river which is nice.
Probably want a city SW close to that river too.
The usual cultural path is to get at least 2 cities that can be massive commercial centers with loads of cottages.
You then go for a third city which can generate loads of artists which you use to culture bomb the city most behind.
Access to ivory do open up the possibility for a smooth construction attack, and possibly taking a future legendary city.
T50 overview:
I'm rushing out a GSci which I planned to settle for a quick early boost. An interesting possibility would be to bulb math, to be able to get currency from oracle as we could get a small fortune from selling small techs to Khan and SB.
Probably want to go through maths toward construction soon anyway for half-price odeons which will take care of happines issues for a forseeable future.
Oh, and the glorious elephants ofcourse.
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