I've always been under the impression it should pick the closest GPs to the one you have selected. Don't recall where or when I got that info. Anyway, having them all in the same tile is always safe.
, or 1680 base hammers with forge. Unfortunately, my GP plan does not allow using Organized Religion for IW. My plan for Stasis Chamber requires 3 forests at the very least, so I can chop 8 of the 11 forests. That and overflow reduces the cost to 1680-90-90*8=870.
to size 9, 57 to size 10, 60 to size 11. I expect Steel around t260 or a bit sooner, so Lisbon has 15 turn to make 5+54+57+60=176 and grow to size 11. 12 surplus will do it. surplus and 48 per turn. This is nearly enough to build IW in 18 turns
from Mansa, securing 245 Nationalism. for IW as whip overflow. overflow. Build executive with overflow and a chop. overflow. Build one executive with overflow and a chop, another with 2 chops. overflow. Build execurive with overflow and a chop. overflow (OR) overflow (forge) overflow (forge). Build 1 executive with overflow, cold-whip second one. overflow, build executive with overflow and a chop. overflow, but decided to grow to size 14. overflow and use it later to whip a forge with ~100 for executive. Or may be, just 2-pop settler? maintenance. Even though a courhouse costs only 2 pop it saves only about 6 and 3 per pop. This population has better uses, simlpy keeping it is better than building courtouses. I thought they might be important for corporations during eraly stage of spreading but... I just had a look at finances before changing civics and realised that if I move from working 
to and scientists my output would drop several hundred and well below expenses. In strike I could be teching a few hundred 
per turn faster right now! The only only problem is that I can't get into strike yet, there is too much work to be done. Once I have corporations, courthouses or not, the maintenace will become unmanagable very quickly. I will have to go into strike as soon as I can generate enough gold to keep spreading.
If I ever try it again, I will certainly play without random events. traderoutes. Forbidden Palace is finished, distance maintenance goes down about 130. Not in a hurry to tech, though. Waiting for a GS for Chemistry.
With my luck nothing short of divine intervention can help me get this GS at only 94%. towards Chemistry.
arrived on this turn, though.
at -1086. traderoutes.. That's 612 more than the Chemistry bulb
Why? Because I am up from 297 population on t252 to 365 population on t260. May be, I should have kept these bulbs for later use? If I bulb Printing Press too there will be only 2 GS for Scientific Method and Biology. I think that getting Mining a couple of turns sooner is more important than winning a thousand beakers after it is founded. I'm not even sure that those latish bulbs will be bigger, as there will be a lot of whipping..!
. Now Timbuktu can grow a bit more, to size 15 at least. May be, even 16? Probably, not. There will be very little time to benefit from better traderoutes before strike begins.. Corporation output is rounded up, so we are looking at 43, on turn M, and 45 a few turns after that. I remember WatinTime talking about giving away some resources to cut expenses. I don't think I'll be doing anything of the sort. Nah, I'll just plunge into strike right away, on M+3, may be M+4. I think it is doable, as the military phase of the game will be over by this time and I will be able to just let my whole army disband without a fuss.
from levee. The number of workshopable/minable tiles obiously is very important too. And, of course, colour - the more brown the better. It may seem odd, but when you have Sushi priorities change. This is why Rome is unfit for spaceship building - it is all green, thus lacking 9 compared to Lisbon. Rome also has 1 peak and only 13 river. Gems are also horrible for production, at least flat one can be workshopped. In the end Rome has potentially about 25 lower cap
. by the time I need overflow gold; a scout costs 18 with forge and Bureau bonus and overflow is limited by base production - 95. With 80 overflow from forge we have 95h+80of-18h-95of=62 or 108 and 95 overflow for the next scout. With that we have 95h+95of-18h-95of=77=134 and so on, as long as scouts are available (until Biology). This is more than half of 250 for five spreads per turn. Although scouts are useless, they make cheap strike sacrifices to keep my workers and executives alive, and there is perfect sacrificial altar for them on the south cape. I can settle a city 2N of the fur and as long as it does not have Sushi the fur will be outside my culture.. Berlin will have about 80 with Mining, hence a boat will have to be prepared at 59/60 beforehand.=111. Not bad for a start. With 108 from Rome it makes 219. With 80 overflow from the first boat the next one will make 80h+80of-27h-80of=53=66. This is not much. Of course, I can use cold whip ocasionally for extra 60 and 75 for a total of 141.. I could do it first turn into strike along with gold from Rome and Berlin to get over 250. But it is best done in cities that do have Mining, adding over 40hpt for potential 90+ for one boat, 80 in weak cities. Even size 2 city can make more than 70 once. bigger allowing, say, 60h+134whip+59prep-60h-60of=133=133 without even forge. with Kremlin and 60 without it..
He killed first CR3 Praetorian witout a scratch, but the next one got him (at 9%).Wild stuff by RNG as usual. Istanbul has 11 pop, lighthouse, aqueduct and even forum, but neither granary nor forge. I don't care for granary - no growth until Sushi - but forge would be great. Cease fire, trade banana for 2 gpt., 1122 with 444 population. I have 234 surplus - still growing a bit.. Not bad for a merchant, GS bulbs are getting near 9000. and 1051 with 475 population. overflow. Don't be fooled, though. Actually, due to weird overflow mechanics it will be 58*1.25/2.25=32. Same thing happens with palace - switch to something else when you finish it if you care for overflow., 989 with 491 population. and this is when I swap build wealth for build research, minimize and maximize and . Only 11 cities have courthouses, of which only 6 receive spreads within first 5 turns. overflow.. Bad news: about 1/4 of the map is unavailable without Astronomy, thus limiting Mining to 45. (10920 base ), while Biology is 19656 (16380). GS bulb is 9027 (a bit more after I recapture cities which I gave to Gandhi, but it does not matter). Second bulb to SM would be very small 13104-9027=4077 - thats nearly 5000 wasted! Get Kremlin 1 or 2 turns faster and Sushi 1 or 2 turns later? I don't like delaying Kremlin; it means more weak 90-hammer whips and it delays switching back to Caste and Free Religion.. There is roughly 1200 overflow from Corporation -> 15000 left. I'm currently making 3405 at -252. Lets be optimistic and try to do it in 6 turns. At current rate we have 3150*6=18900. With 1% inflation each spread costs 51. Hence 22 spreads by M+6 cost 51*22=1122; 18900-1122=17778. Mining will bring (1+2+4+8+13+18)*43=1978; 17778+1978=19756. Corporate maintenance will be about 1500 -> 18256. Quite a few hammers will be spent on building executives, settlers, boats and scouts. This is difficult to estimate because there is a lot of already prepared overflow involved plus chops. Besides, much of production will come from whips. Oh, and I will be in Slavery+OR from t283 till Kremlin, thats another hit to research rate. and 3 (or just 4). Thats 2 lost per city, more than 200 in total. Bureaucracy and Organized Religion will cost about 50 each, because Bureau bonus does not fully compensate increased maintenance and OR costs more than extra military maintenance with Pacifism. Free Religion is another ~200 lost. So, its 200+50+50+200=500bpt reduction after changing civics on t283 and 1500 over 3 turns -> 18256-1500=16756.) in cities building executives (1+2+4+5+5+5)*(43+10)=1166; 16756-946=15590. This is already less than I need, not even considering some of the expenses I will have. T287 Communism is alright, can't change civics until t288, anyway. I will get Communism t287 and finish Kremlin on t288, make whips and switch to Caste. Then I will have a GS to bulb Biology for nearly 9000 of 19656., Lisbon will produce some overflow gold.. Need 22 base hammers. Centre is 3, iron mine is 6. There is a green hill with a railroad, that could be 5 mine. Still need 8 hammers. Could work plains workshop for 6 and a riverside PH (32 once forest is gone). Count worker turns: 8 for mine, 11 - workshop and 9 to finish chopping. Need 14 workers to get it done next turn. It is possible but why spend so many workerturns? The Hague probably will not work many tiles, as I will whip a settler there with overflow into another executive. If I chop all four forest there will be 4*90+2*(43+3)-2*200=52 overflow, then 52+43+3=98 into settler. Thats 98/200 base hammers - set for a 2-pop whip with ~130 overflow. This is not good enough, with 2 mines The Hague can have 3+6+5+43=57 base production. Need at least 143 overflow. Working iron mine for 1 turn and green mine for another will add 11 preparing settler at 109/200. Then whip and work both mines: 109+2*90+57-200=146 overflow. overflow. I want 2 executives with this overflow and 1 chop; 3 forests are kept for Casing and the 2 forests marked 'A' Adrianople will need for Docking Bay. Maastricht need 200*2-196-90-2*43=28 over 2 turns. Two workshops will do it, 5+11 workerturns and has to be finished on t282. for its first executive. With 7 population, a mine, ivory and 2 workshops it is well equipped for another exec with settler overflow and does not require worker attention. overflow and forge. It will need 160-99-43=18 base hammers. There is a workshop and horses. Could work a couple of forests if I fail to find workerturns for another workshop. prepared. It will build an executive with 186+43+(5+4+3+2)-200=43 overflow. Could use to prepare a settler for overflow into another executive. I have no specific plans for it - just another back up.. No courthouse in The Hague, so its 81 per turn corporate payments there. at -36. Lucky I developed a habit of checking bpt on the end of every turn, or I have forgotten to adjust slider and there would not be enough gold for spreading next turn. at +186.
Good thing there a lot of reinforcements on the way, even though I was sure I would not need them. There is an island north of Bursa! May be, I was wrong and there are some more Mining resources available before Astronony?.. I managed to gain more than 300 but thats it, most cities do not have sufficient hammer-heavy tiles to make much difference. And I also cold-whip a pikeman in Istanbul. Civ fight calculator shows 1000 wins in 1000 simulations, with average defenders losses of 0.169.
