Dead End Techs

[CivAl]

Of the "dead end" techs, which you don't need to get to pass to the next era, which do you think are valuable and which are not?

 

[Maverick]

I usually dont research republic cause i dont usually use it

 

[Luca Brasi]

Literature (DUH)
Monarchy or Republic (DUH)
Printing Press and Democracy (DUH)
Chivalry (Knights)
Military Tradition (Cavalry)
Music Theory (JS Bach is HUGE)
Saniation (Hospital)

Saniation and Nationalism are the only ones I get in industrial age. But if I'm running ahead in tech in the middle ages, I'd get as much dead ends as possible. The computer values them A LOT and you get rip the off for A LOT of money by selling these. What I do is build my wonder half way, then sell the tech to the computer. Then I finish the wonder and the computer just wasted all that money. Worked like a charm in my last game.