An interesting situation...
Caesar is pretty far ahead of the others in power. Followed by Mongols, India, England and America, with Fred right in there as well.
Looking at the Foreign Advisor matrix, thing are certainly starting to break along religious lines. Given that the top four civs are Hindu and that two protect our southern border, I think we should adopt Hinduism soon. Looks like Toku is everyone's worst enemy.![]()
Would love to have Bombay, three religions founded there!![]()
On trading, this is where I am not certain what to do. Alphabet leads directly to Literature and we need to get the Great Library. How long should we hold Alphabet? I also like to try and pick up Math and Iron Working for Alphabet, so I'm not sure it si best to start trading it right away?
Trading Pottery to Isabella for Mysticism would be good. Then we may be able to pick up Animal Husbandry from Washington for Writing. Fred doesn't look too eager to trade Iron Working, unfortunately. Perhaps we should wait a turn and see if we can pick up Polytheism from him for Writing and Sailing? Then we could go directly to Literature and the Great Library.![]()
Great progress.
I traded Alphabet away for Math in most of my test games so I'm not worried about trading it early. In several games I had trouble getting Polytheism in a trade. The only tech we urgently need is Mysticism because it's on the beeline to Literature so maybe we should start by trading for that and then see what is possible next turn.
I would hold onto Alphabet unique at least until we can get Math for it.
I think I like the idea of trading for Mysticism with Frederick and see what we can stir up for Polytheism next turn so we can get on to Lit.![]()
Are we sure that there is another continent? If there is one with a powerful civ and land available, might it be a threat to build the GLIB?
Might there be enough land on our continent for Domination?
ShannonCT said:If we trade for Mysticism this turn, we can set research to Polytheism. There was a large beaker carry-over from Alphabet, because we were only a few beakers short of getting it on turn 61. So we can probably self-research Polytheism in 2 turns if need be.
I noticed that Fred will not give any tech for Writing, meaning he's probably close to self-researching it. I think we should gift it to him, to pick up diplo points and to be able to trade Alpha with him next turn. Same with Toku. Gift him Writing and hopefully he will be willing to tech trade next turn. No one is willing to trade Math yet even though 2 AI have it, so we probably want to avoid trading Alpha to those 2 AI.
According to the testing, things can get exciting any time now. That is why it will be nice to become a "brother and sister of faith" soon so we can ensure we have protection along our borders. It is also important to get a tech lead in case we need to buy in an ally.It's almost worrisome how smoothly matters are proceeding.
Yes, there is surely another. I never ran into this in testing. Later in the game, there was one instance where a civ became quite powerful on the other continent because they conquered two other civs and had the advantage of a larger empire. In most games, they pretty much hold there own over there.Are we sure that there is another continent? If there is one with a powerful civ and land available, might it be a threat to build the GLIB?
I think we have to wait and see what the other continent looks like. It will happen soon enough...Might there be enough land on our continent for Domination?
Looks good.
Where do you plan to stop? Just curious...
Thought I was seeing double for a moment...
![]()
![]()
![]()