Ok, got it back. Apparently we're in Caste System, and are running veritably no Gp
Unfortunately, I forgot to change it. This was a very medicore turnset for me, and I apologize.
First, some evidences of our situation:
We're 4th in GNP, but leading in every other category. But... but... why?
Ah, Ok, that explains it. We're losing the most cash cause of civics, cities... the normal stuff (after we got Printing Press, we increased to deficit of -3 at 60%, woohoo!)
Well, I didn't resolve to improve this, in fact I was kind of wierded out by our relative lack of city specialization. This is a weaker point my games that I'm trying to prove. We have pretty much ONLY commerce cities, and thusly cannot use Caste System Well. I recommend an immediate switch to slavery or something else, to save $.
So I started the turn, and noticed the failure to use Caste System, and then my desire to be an idiot and not address it
like I said, this isn't my best set of turns.
We're a ... little ways behind in tech, as evidenced by these two screenies:
These are to be expected. Rather soon, I feel, we should go and pay a visit to the Capac. I feel that we should thusly beline:
Education>Gunpowder>Chemistry (Or Rifling, this would probably be better)>Astronomy ( I already started astro before switching to Education
)
So, in the meantime, we should probably switch to theocracy or something like that, to build up a force of catapuls which we will use to take out Huyana.
Notice, please that I am not mentioning Cyrus. I really don't think he's a viable opponent because he has two cities on the other side of the landmass, each war drops us -2 with our perma-friend Gandhi (who we should try to PA with eventually), and because of this little piece of weed.
This has other consequences (I did gift the city)... we can't get it back (coz the AI will only give you a city if you have crushed it militarily) and it'll be an Indian foothold in our lands. Once we sign the PA, though, I think we could head back and clean up Cyrus. I'm sorry, it was stupid.
The remainder of my turnset was me playing poorly and correcting some other mistakes (like us building longbows in cities without barracks), and building the currently inappropriate Theaters in cities w/o happiness problems. I apologize... I should have built military to strengthen our base, Macemen to upgrade to CRX rifles... argh.
I'd like us to try and develop one city into a GP machine... currently, If we were able to take ... Pasargadae? Persepolis? it would be awesome... but I am really not focused enough.
We're gonna need to hit the Capac all at once, with an overkill blow. Then, we can Island Hop down and hopefully wield our military tech advantage over Saladin and FDR.
Oh, there's also an island down south, for settling. I has furs, which I forgot to take a shot of:
http://gotm.civfanatics.net/saves/civ4sgotm1/Realms_Beyond_SG001_AD1220_01.Civ4SavedGame
Beef, you're up, in berserks absence. Please, make good on my
