Question about great scientists and city placement

[Sidney Magal]

I'm playing an immortal fractal map on normal speed and I have a couple of questions. I appreciate all the input.

I rolled Hammurabi this morning and got lucky with the huts, that gave me a map plus mysticism and masonry. As I also had marble, I went to literature to build the Great Library. I did. Now I don't know what to do with my future scientists.

You see, I am isolated and only had 1 source of happiness (ivory) so I didn't try the pyramids. Now I'll have more scientists than I could hope for and don't know what to do with them. Should I settle all in my capital? Should I build academies everywhere? Should I save 2 to bulb astronomy? I don't usually research alphabet in isolation so bulbing seems a rather poor alternative.

Besides that, I don't know how to settle my south. I made a dot-map, but I'd like to hear some input. Pictures are in spoilers.

Capital, just whipped the library.

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Already settled land (popped silver there)

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South

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And the map showed there's more land to the east, but I don't know how to settle to establish contact. See those peaks?

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[UWHabs]

First things, you should send a wb around the mountains in case the land curves around. There might be a shallow enough bridge to cross over.

Otherwise, bulbing to astronomy might make sense for you. So use one for optics, 1-2 for astro. Or just do like normal and bulb towards liberalism. If it means researching alphabet, so be it.

 

[Esham]

Your capital has a lot of river+grassland+food resources so it may be worthwhile to settle your first GS and make your capital a science city.

The south of the island has a lot of hills so you could look to slap a production city somewhere as well but your going to want to rush for astronomy so you can move off that island asap.

Also you do have 3 coastal cities so a GLH would work well in the northern city. I can't recall the other wonders that help having soo many coastal cities but it will help in the commerce department which leads to my next point.

One thing i do notice is you have a lot of cottages setup. If you want to persue a couple of specialist cities it would have been better for farms and less cottages. But at the same time you may need some for commerce.

I am no expert though.

 

[pollock]

Get optics and explore of island. Settle more land! Use heritary rule and stuff to make a massive gp farm in capital . Try and tech at a stupidly fast rate everywhere.

 

[Sidney Magal]

Ok, so I'm torn between saving 2 scientists to bulb astronomy (optics is so fast to research that I won't even bother) and settling them all in my capital. Good to be reminded about sending a workboat to see if there's a possible contact already.

I'm still unsure about how to settle the south. Can anyone help me? Thanks.

Edit: The GLH would be great, but it's long gone by now.

 

[nishant1911]

should have gone GLH

 

[UWHabs]

GLH wouldn't actually have been that great. By the time you get intercontinental routes, you're already probably somewhat close to corporation, and before then, you're only getting an extra 2 commerce a turn. It's not bad, but it really only is worth it once you can get the overseas routes.

As for the south, it's awkward. Honestly, I think settling on the horse almost looks like the best bet. Chain irrigate, mine the hills, and it'll be an okay production city.

 

[Sidney Magal]

GLH wouldn't actually have been that great. By the time you get intercontinental routes, you're already probably somewhat close to corporation, and before then, you're only getting an extra 2 commerce a turn. It's not bad, but it really only is worth it once you can get the overseas routes.

True, but who said you have to rush to corporation?

BTW, I played some more, made some good friends and found a target for my (still inexistent) war machine.

I know you're not supposed to start trading with the first guys that show up when you're isolated, but I did and it turned out alright because they were all members of a big hugfest. I chose to double bulb education, which let me win liberalism and get this:

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It was huge here.

After meeting everyone, I decided to become a Buddhist and run organized religion. Why, you ask? Look at this:

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I also declared war on Toku to get some extra diplo points, which led to this diplomatic situation:

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Pretty lucky, right?

Now the more general information

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And my target

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Thank you all for the help. I really appreciate it.

 

[pollock]

Looks like you dont need help