Turn 0 - 1450AD: Beijing has 5 turns left on its Bank construction. I fire one of the three merchants and lower it to 3 turns. Beijing, BTW, is at max happiness and the avoid growth button was previously turned on.
I queue up a Settler in Shanghai. A fishing village on the NW islands will never be a powerful city, but it will at least pay for itself in commerce. I turn on the avoid growth button here in Shanghai, as the city is at max happiness.
The southern city of Nanjing has 7 turns left on the Versailles build. By changing the free specialist from a merchant to a citizen, it drops to 6 turns. Since there is no forge here, a engineer was not an option.
Xian, on Easter Island, has not started construction of its Bank. Here we can train an Islamic Missionary before switching over to troops.
Hatshepsut is willing to sell her map for 20g. Since we've got the cash, I go ahead and buy it. Isabella doesn't like us enough to sell her map, even though she is currently pleased with us. From what I can tell, it looks like we may have already traded with Capac for his map, so I don't even try.
I seriously overpaid Hattie for that map!
She doesn't know much about the world at all. It does, however, show me the most direct route out of her territory for our eastern Caravel. Give me time, I can rationalize anything! 
Well, after all of that, our treasury is down to 202 gold and we are draining it at -14gpt now. I am going to leave research at 90% for the time being.
IBT: Capac gets himself a Great Prophet.
Turn 1 - 1460AD: I crack the
in Beijing. This turned out to not be a smart move. My thinking was that we would lose one of our merchant specialist, but we would get it back when the city grows next turn. I totally forget about the happiness penalty. 
Guangzhou is also now at max happiness. It has 7 excess food, and pop rushing the Bank will cost 2 population. I crack the here with a little better results.
It occurs to me that since we are running the Mercantilism civic, we are getting no benefit from foreign trade routes. In fact, our open borders with Capac are just giving him free money! I go ahead and cancel that treaty. We lose 2 relations points with him, but he is still friendly with us.
IBT: Hattie wants to do a deal for Calendar making. I decline since it will obsolote the Obelisk. And then who should we find sailing in the Egyptian waters, Julius Caesar, the founder of Confucianism. Unfortunately, he doesn't like us well enough to sell us his map.
Turn 2 - 1470AD: Beijing completes its Bank and begins a Maceman. Guangzhou completes its Bank and begins a Barracks.
IBT: Hattie wants to trade world maps, straight up. Sorry, babe, I've seen your map! Then Caesar wants to buy Paper for half of its true worth. Uh, no!
I queue up a Settler in Shanghai. A fishing village on the NW islands will never be a powerful city, but it will at least pay for itself in commerce. I turn on the avoid growth button here in Shanghai, as the city is at max happiness.
The southern city of Nanjing has 7 turns left on the Versailles build. By changing the free specialist from a merchant to a citizen, it drops to 6 turns. Since there is no forge here, a engineer was not an option.
Xian, on Easter Island, has not started construction of its Bank. Here we can train an Islamic Missionary before switching over to troops.
Hatshepsut is willing to sell her map for 20g. Since we've got the cash, I go ahead and buy it. Isabella doesn't like us enough to sell her map, even though she is currently pleased with us. From what I can tell, it looks like we may have already traded with Capac for his map, so I don't even try.
I seriously overpaid Hattie for that map!
She doesn't know much about the world at all. It does, however, show me the most direct route out of her territory for our eastern Caravel. Give me time, I can rationalize anything!
Well, after all of that, our treasury is down to 202 gold and we are draining it at -14gpt now. I am going to leave research at 90% for the time being.
IBT: Capac gets himself a Great Prophet.
Turn 1 - 1460AD: I crack the
in Beijing. This turned out to not be a smart move. My thinking was that we would lose one of our merchant specialist, but we would get it back when the city grows next turn. I totally forget about the happiness penalty. Guangzhou is also now at max happiness. It has 7 excess food, and pop rushing the Bank will cost 2 population. I crack the
here with a little better results.It occurs to me that since we are running the Mercantilism civic, we are getting no benefit from foreign trade routes. In fact, our open borders with Capac are just giving him free money! I go ahead and cancel that treaty. We lose 2 relations points with him, but he is still friendly with us.
IBT: Hattie wants to do a deal for Calendar making. I decline since it will obsolote the Obelisk. And then who should we find sailing in the Egyptian waters, Julius Caesar, the founder of Confucianism. Unfortunately, he doesn't like us well enough to sell us his map.
Turn 2 - 1470AD: Beijing completes its Bank and begins a Maceman. Guangzhou completes its Bank and begins a Barracks.
IBT: Hattie wants to trade world maps, straight up. Sorry, babe, I've seen your map! Then Caesar wants to buy Paper for half of its true worth. Uh, no!
