Same direction- Space Ship

[Provolution]

The Victory Poll was won by Spaceship (50 %, where the two other options got 25 %).

I think we need to plan along the lines of a Spaceship victory. How should we do that?

 

[ordinaryguy]

Beeline for Rocketry (though I'm just stating the obvious).

Commerce, gold, money!

Then later watermill/mine/workshop for higher production to build the parts.

 

[grant2004]

Simply put we need to concentrate on improving our economy in all areas, we need to look for more opportunities, like the statue of liberty, to boost our science output, more chances to boost our production, like RP, and as soon as we've secured the continent we need to de-emphasize the military our greatest defense will be our oceans, and we should also work diligently to befriend the other continent so as to limit the chance that anyone will chance crossing our oceans.

 

[Provolution]

I 100 % agree on the proposed main strategies, and would emphasize to build as many "Vassalage elite city garrisons" before we end vassalage, in order to secure a strong, low cost military. We should focus on strong infantry defenses and a strong navy from this point onwards. The Medieval technology army will handle Rome.

 

[HUSch]

What kind of units do you mean? And what techs are necessary for that?

 

[robboo]

My suggestion...Get a good economy running. Dont pass obvious economy techs. All the while you make sure you have a bunch of cities with labs. Build teh smaller parts in outlying low production cities...20 turns to build is not a big deal. I suggest grabbing the tech for INTERNET. It prevents a superior production civ from basically shutting down research and out building us while we work commerce tiles.

We then shut down research and start building parts. We buy troops and improvements in the other cities. We build our ship only teching when we see a need for a tech.( ie all builds nearing completion) While this is happening we need to then convert all cottages to windmills/or water mills in our main production cities. This will bump the production higher.

Key points.
Tech to Internet. Build it. Then sit back at 0% science until you have all the troops and improvements you need. Then pick up research again if no one is close to us techwise. Logically its faster to go the "bottom route" to build the ship, BUT if they get the bottom and the internet you are screwed. IT also woudlnt hurt to bank up a few great people for a golden age as we build the internet.

 

[dutchfire]

First get our economy to work like a charm (Democracy, Corporation etc.), then go for the production boosting techs (Industrialism for aluminium is very important!), then go for rocketry and start building parts in small cities.