I can't see any reason to spend a turn on revolt right now. When we revolt to Hereditary Rule later, we will be able to change one more civic for free. Agree, and if we revolt to Slavery, won't we incur a 1GPT for the civic, thereby prohibiting constant 100% research?
It looks like we're in good shape to beeline for CS. We're at a happy cap of 9 now, and we can go to 10 with a temple. If trading starts opening up soon, we will probably be able to trade Code of Laws for Monarchy. If we get to our happiness limit, we could consider hiring scientists to improve our chances of getting GSs. Are we willing to run scientist specialists before we get a Great Merchant (for CS)?
Yes, with our continent likely having enough land for domination, we will want to go for a quick PA and then maybe head for Chemistry, Steel, and Biology.
What about Construction (and cats) to get started early -- perhaps join a dogpile and raze a city for the money or extort techs for peace? Why Biology?
Agree with JT here. Better to beeline for CS and trade for Metal Casting. Bureaucracy is so powerful here. No dissent about the value of Bureaucracy, but will we have a GM ready to light bulb CoL that soon? If not, isn't this a good argument for either Monarchy or Metal Casting next?CS is good trade bait and will help our friends tech faster as well.
I agree. If Math is not showing up for trade soon, we could trade Alpha to a couple AI that have Monachy or HBR but not Math, in the hopes of getting Math to more people.
We really want Math within the next 8-9 turns. We can prechop two forests and then move on to chop two more (like to get the sheep patured), but if we don't have Math when the chops complete, we're losing 25 hammers per forest toward the GLib. Agree, that would be an unecessary waste. Is there a danger that one of the forested hills will have iron? If so, we'll want to chop and mine it, which means not reducing our forests to four before we know where the iron is (or isn't). [/COLOR
Sounds good. We want as many hammers as possible when it comes time to build the GLib.