LowtherCastle
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Excellent analysis, bbp! One for GP Farm would be great too. I've been thinking we need to find a balance between war preps and growing these cities (along with Siberia, hopefully).Edit2: need to also check GP Farm, I guess.
I agree with skiping the treb in Pigs.so why don't we skip the treb whip in pigs?
As a GS is currently much more useful to us than a Great Spy I think we should fire the spy in pigs, and work a farm until CS is available.
However, I would like to STRONGLY emphasize that the best thing under heaven that could happen to us now would be to pop a Great Spy!!!! I mean it. The GSes are only saving us about 3t of research each at our current 100% rate. The Great Spy would catapult us forward in terms of stealing techs from Roosy, saving 10t or more, I suspect. It would get us Communism far sooner, alone. Then it would get us Guilds + Banking as soon as Roosy gets them and COnstitution shortly thereafter.
In short, the possibility of popping a Great Spy is the one reason I'm particularly interested in switching to CS/Pacifism now. Otherwise, I think staying in slavery and just working 2sci everywhere would be better.
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Edit: Just to give you an idea of how this would change the Communism steal. Mao's EP spending is currently 140% of ours. That means he has spent 3X as much as us. As in 800:2400 or something like that. So our cost for COmmunism right now would be ~1431EPs. If we EP-bombed Roosy for 3000 EPs, our cost for Communism would drop to ~880. At our current EP rate, that's 550/30=19t longer.
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