Golden Age and What to do with it

[MOTH]

You might have noticed that we have just entered a Golden Age. If we want to make the most of it we need to do some long range planning as things will move fast. The next TC is scheduled for a little less than 53 hours from now, so I thought I would get some discussions started so that the ministers and governors know what to put in their instructions.

Options as I see them (not mutually exclusive):

1. Research.
2. War.
3. Wonders.
4. City Improvements
5. Trade

My personal preference is to aim for all out research and trade away techs to all nations except Rome, Iroqoius, and Babylon to finance our research.

Questions the ministers need to consider and possibly poll:
MSAV: How much, when, and what type of military do you need to have produced? Consider the 3 scenarios of a continued limited war vs Rome, active wars, and peace/defense. Should we plan for getting a foothold in the new world?

Trade: What are the general conditions under which we should trade? What is the minimum value we need to recieve to trade each specific tech? What techs are we willing to trade in the old world and what techs in the new world?

Culture: How many and what wonders should we look at producing? What cities should build wonders? What cities should build other cultural improvements?

Domestic: How much does the population want to spend on science vs cash?

Science: What path of the tech tree should we go down? What techs are we willing to trade in the old world and what techs in the new world?

Foreign: Should we use our Golden Age to wage war? Should we establish embassies in the new world? Should we try and start a war between factions in the new world?

Governors: What is the best practical use of each city in your province? What cities could best make use of improved land?

President: What cities could best make use of improved land? What Ministries or Provinces have not provided enough info for well planned and executed TCs? Do we have enough time between TCs to properly plan?

Judiciary: ???

 

[invy]

Things we should do:
- build atleast 1 wonder + forbidden palace (Rome or Odawara)
*For wonders I suggest Fanatikku as 1st choice, then Zojoji 2nd and Shorin-Ryu as 3rd choice (Zojoji has more improvements then Shorin-Ryu)
- upgrade all units
- build improvements in cities that needs them
- build Samurai in cities that have improvements
- when we get around 15 Samurai start war with Iro's
- establish embassies

Thats what i can remember at the moment...

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Did someone say GA? Oh...Golden Age...darn.

Build a (1!!) wonder - this is the only time that I would approve of it - hopefully our cities will have enough shields to also build samurai. And...turn our science UP!!

 

[classical_hero]

I had started a thread about this called Guess what?. That was intended to the thread to talk about the Golden Age.

 

[Inter4]

you should be more clear with your thread titles..

Anyways....Build veteran samurais, and improve cities. When we have enough military ...conquer as many as possible.

 

[Ashburnham]

Now is definately the time to focus on research and infastructure. Military units are unaffected by GA's, so focusing on conquest now would be a waste of this one-time opportunity. I support increasing research, building improvements, and building at least one Wonder.

 

[blackheart]

This thread title seemed pretty clear to me. Why can't we have conqest and research? We should strike at our neighbors while they're weak, not let them build up.

 

[classical_hero]

This thread title seemed pretty clear to me. Why can't we have conqest and research? We should strike at our neighbors while they're weak, not let them build up.

Why has this become a GA of peace? I think that is should be a GA of conquest and power. This is the best time to increase our military and cruch the rest of the world. :mwhahaha:

EDIT. Since my thread about this is closed, this is the only official discussion about a GA. I really like that spoiler thingy, it is a spammers dream, thanx TF and VB.

 

[Inter4]

Why has this become a GA of peace? I think that is should be a GA of conquest and power. This is the best time to increase our military and cruch the rest of the world. :mwahaha:

I agree. Let's crush everyone!

 

[Rik Meleet]

Science and buildings.

 

[Black_Hole]

Science and buildings.

or science, science, science, and a tad bit more science

 

[classical_hero]

Alert.​

Why have we wasted over half of a Golden Age without starting on a single wonder. What is the point of having a Golden Age if you do not build wonders or go to war? I would say pointless. I am very disappointed with the situation.

 

[Chieftess]

We've been building markets can cathedrals. In DG2, we spent our Golden Age building factories. Both Golden Ages so far revolve around quick infrastructure, and a boost in research.

 

[classical_hero]

We've been building markets can cathedrals. In DG2, we spent our Golden Age building factories. Both Golden Ages so far revolve around quick infrastructure, and a boost in research.

I think that the Golden Age is being wasted. It is nice to be building them but we can also be on the war path and wonder path at the same time. That is what I like about Golden Ages.

 

[Gregski]

I think that this is the time to build wonders. The Sistine Chapel is crying out to be built (well not literally, but you know what I mean). We have three high producing cities that should focus on this instead of lesser goals.