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Teproc has a point, for Research Agreements friendship is needed, so staying neutral is not so good. But Education is a little while away yet, some 15 turns away for us, and for the most advanced civs not much earlier.
In the very short term we might want Open Borders from Attila for exploration. Open Borders before denouncing can be okay, denouncing and then wanting Open Borders would be a bit silly.
We do have Open Borders with Suleiman, but we could run into Hunnic borders further inland, Attila's lands are probably more inland.
This is our scout heading over there, by the way:
At the moment there would be almost as much justification in denouncing Boudicca, as she's at war with Gustav, so Gustav would like this, and Sweden would be a nice civ to be friends with; he's rich and promotes your Great People a bit.
Of course at the moment neither Boudicca or Gustav would be interested in a ratified friendship with us, we've only just met them.
But anyway, I would at least wait for another turnset before denouncing anyone.
I had made a few screenshots to help Teproc getting into the save a bit easier, besides the scout there's also some worker activity to consider:
I would buy the tile in the centre of the screen, as the next cultural expansion won't take it, and we can sell truffles to both Boudicca and Gustav (if Boudicca gets a trade route pillaged it may be different).
We're making some 60 gpt at the moment, but with more income from those resources sold, and more and better trade routes coming, plus our connected towns getting bigger, we should probably be hitting 100 gpt quite soon, without a Golden Age.
There's a cargo ship nearly finished, and a couple of existing trade routes need to be reassigned. These are our trade route possibilities (tall picture):
There's a lot of info always on these overviews, like who's doing better than us in techs and who's falling behind. We're actually doing well, only Attila and Darius are doing better than us in this overview, the rest we've caught up with or we've surpassed them. On Immortal it's quite normal to only catch up in the Renaissance, but we've caught up way earlier in this game.
If we get a spy we'll have a hard time finding a civ where we can steal a tech from, I expect we'll have to send it to a City State for influence.
The tech route overview also shows that we may not want to become too hostile towards Attila, because Addis Ababa stands out as the best city to send boats to.
And we'll want external trade routes, there's no way we can afford internal food routes any longer, in 2 turns our happiness is at zero and we need to turn to colosseums and such.
Do look out for a spare lux among the AI, buy immediately if you see one.
Saving some money would also be a good idea now. If some CS has a discount for influence I would go for it. We need the happiness!
Also for a Research Agreement it is good to have some spare money.
Don't spend money on upgrading a unit or buying a worker, we can build those things. City State influence is way more important for our development, as we are hitting our growth ceiling. We're doing well in science, we've developed well, but the downside is that we have a lot of people to keep happy. I think also the scarce resources roll of the dice doesn't help here; less luxes to trade for.
The last picture is a religious overview:
Not the most interesting thing, but the civ we haven't met yet has Buddhism. Would it be India?
And the last religion slot has still not been taken. In hindsight, we could have gotten a religion had we really tried - but those things are very hard to predict in advance. I'm used to the last slots being filled around turn 100 or so.
In the very short term we might want Open Borders from Attila for exploration. Open Borders before denouncing can be okay, denouncing and then wanting Open Borders would be a bit silly.
We do have Open Borders with Suleiman, but we could run into Hunnic borders further inland, Attila's lands are probably more inland.
This is our scout heading over there, by the way:
Spoiler :
At the moment there would be almost as much justification in denouncing Boudicca, as she's at war with Gustav, so Gustav would like this, and Sweden would be a nice civ to be friends with; he's rich and promotes your Great People a bit.
Of course at the moment neither Boudicca or Gustav would be interested in a ratified friendship with us, we've only just met them.
But anyway, I would at least wait for another turnset before denouncing anyone.
I had made a few screenshots to help Teproc getting into the save a bit easier, besides the scout there's also some worker activity to consider:
Spoiler :
We're making some 60 gpt at the moment, but with more income from those resources sold, and more and better trade routes coming, plus our connected towns getting bigger, we should probably be hitting 100 gpt quite soon, without a Golden Age.
There's a cargo ship nearly finished, and a couple of existing trade routes need to be reassigned. These are our trade route possibilities (tall picture):
Spoiler :
There's a lot of info always on these overviews, like who's doing better than us in techs and who's falling behind. We're actually doing well, only Attila and Darius are doing better than us in this overview, the rest we've caught up with or we've surpassed them. On Immortal it's quite normal to only catch up in the Renaissance, but we've caught up way earlier in this game.
If we get a spy we'll have a hard time finding a civ where we can steal a tech from, I expect we'll have to send it to a City State for influence.
The tech route overview also shows that we may not want to become too hostile towards Attila, because Addis Ababa stands out as the best city to send boats to.
And we'll want external trade routes, there's no way we can afford internal food routes any longer, in 2 turns our happiness is at zero and we need to turn to colosseums and such.
Do look out for a spare lux among the AI, buy immediately if you see one.
Saving some money would also be a good idea now. If some CS has a discount for influence I would go for it. We need the happiness!
Also for a Research Agreement it is good to have some spare money.
Don't spend money on upgrading a unit or buying a worker, we can build those things. City State influence is way more important for our development, as we are hitting our growth ceiling. We're doing well in science, we've developed well, but the downside is that we have a lot of people to keep happy. I think also the scarce resources roll of the dice doesn't help here; less luxes to trade for.
The last picture is a religious overview:
Spoiler :
And the last religion slot has still not been taken. In hindsight, we could have gotten a religion had we really tried - but those things are very hard to predict in advance. I'm used to the last slots being filled around turn 100 or so.
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