Jumping to Emperor

[Oddible]

Funny, I was just thinking to myself that the centerpiece of a winning Emperor strategy is to master the tech race and here is a thread about jumping to Emperor which is almost solely talking about exactly that. A lot of good tips here but there are no hard and fast rules. If you are playing a science civ for instance, building a library is fast to get some culture on your borders. Also, in regards to tech trading - the key is that if you can get almost ANY money for a tech, SELL IT. The reason being that if you have a large treasury then you can keep your research high. If you don't sell it for a measly 50g then the AI is going to and you will lose the 50g to them.

I just posted my first Emperor win here FYI:
First Emperor Win

 

[budweiser]

I am enjoying my current game as england on a large archipelago map. Its only a monarch game. I set sail early and I managed to find all the other civs. I keep trying to trade with them but boy are they broke. I am one of the tech leaders, and one thing I am enjoying is introducing the other civs to ENGLISH currancy, and ENGLISH philosophy etc. There is nothing like putting hiawatha on the pound note system. Or selling the Mongols ENGLISH philosophy.