Optimal late game tech path for SV

[pkf]

Shouldn't Robotics be more of a priority, at least over Advanced Ballistics? Spaceship factories double production on spaceship parts after all, and that would be useful to have in at least a couple of your cities before you build the SS Boosters. That was my logic anyway.

you get atomic theory and nuclear plants (rush in cap/hubble city) on the way to ballistics. rushing robotics afterwards doesn't take too long and you're gonna buy spaceship factories in time for the parts (max 2, you get one with hubble and don't need more than 2 or 3 cities producing parts). this is why i lay off robotics for a while.

 

[iggymnrr]

you get atomic theory and nuclear plants (rush in cap/hubble city) on the way to ballistics. rushing robotics afterwards doesn't take too long and you're gonna buy spaceship factories in time for the parts (max 2, you get one with hubble and don't need more than 2 or 3 cities producing parts). this is why i lay off robotics for a while.

The late game tech path doesn't matter much at all. If you've gone order, only one or two decent production cities are needed. Things only go as fast as your weakest link which, ironically, might be your best production city doing double duty when a weaker city does single duty just a bit faster. If you've gone freedom, and can buy stuff mentioned above, you can buy most of the ship in a single turn.

 

[budweiser]

Getting into Modern via Radio is for opening up Ideology, not for the UN. But you know that

Oxford > Industrialism. Purchase 3 factories. Hello ideology. Hello World's Fair.

 

[Deau]

Robotics should definitely be the 2nd to last tech. The bottom of the tree does not allow you to build all other parts before the very turn you get the final techs. Spaceship factories are useless if you get the techs 30 turns earlier going through the top of the tree. I will typically get enough hammers from satellite cities to build the 3 boosters and hit every other piece with capital. The main thing with taking this path is that you know that the very last part will be teched when you have your highest production city free to hard build it (unless you have a GE to rush it obv).

If you do it the other way around, you may very well tech the last tech and still have pieces being built in satellite cities that will take longer to complete than the last part takes in capital.