Well we're at the moment in the game where our tech rate will suffer the most, maybe more than I realize. But ideally a "tech game" wants a maximum number of cities settled/captured as soon as possible right? We take the risk of over expanding but isn't that the risk we have to take to beat the other teams?
but expanding cautiously won't bring us the gold laurels IMO
It is a turn quicker than my theorizing.Well we're at the moment in the game where our tech rate will suffer the most, maybe more than I realize. But ideally a "tech game" wants a maximum number of cities settled/captured as soon as possible right? We take the risk of over expanding but isn't that the risk we have to take to beat the other teams?
We might be too much in the red zone
Right now we may not seem like we have much to build but once Forges are available, War Elephants, Catapults... where does the wealth come from?
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Yes, there is no barrier, but it's not optimal to ICS either. Not that we're doing that but we have a few too many cities I believe.
For instance, that Asoka city which you said could build wealth to pay for itself... well, it'll be a drain for a good ~20 turns, then it can build wealth to slowly pay for the drain and finally break even in ~40 turns.
I have not counted how much of the new city cost us now, I guess it would be like ~10g from the city and civic for the 10th city. In the same time, we gain 2C from trade route plus 1C from city center. We lose 7C at size 1 without building wealth, or 6C with building wealth. The Pig/Wheat site might be able to have granary + CH in less than 20 turns. That's a net loss of ~140C. In fact, not that much when the city grow to 3+ and starts to work on cottage and lake tile. This stage is the most difficult period since cities are still short of CHs and are too small to work on enough cottages, the situation will be much better ~10 turns later.
CH will provide maybe 15 gpt. Build Wealth? Can't wait to see that when we have so much to build
The gain from CHs on the screen is not too much, but it scales with the city size. Cottages are the more important resource of commerce and this can only come from more and big cities.
Best source of gold is from failed wonders, of course.
Rice Pudding is at the wrong edge of the empire, it takes 10 turns for a unit there to get to Tokugawa's first city. We can't count on HE city to do everything, or even a lot in a reasonable amount of time before Longbows become rampant.
As I said, I did not count the war with Catas + WEs is a sure path, simply due to unfavorable diplomatic environment.
This isn't spaceship game, we should look to win by 1000~1100 AD going broke as we finish capturing the last few resources from the AIs.
Let's get a spy to Tokugawa ASAP, if we still can't trade Math, let's steal it. My earlier suggestion for tech was Metal Casting for Forges.
Alternatively, Theology>Paper>Education like Kakumeika did last game, even if Theology is redundant, we could use it for army purposes.
curtails Case Depart's growth at size 11.
On that matter I don't think the Barb city is holding a Corp resource, because it would render the objective impossible because of this rule:Of course there's the damning possibility of resources stuck in that barb city which is why I asked if we could teleport into barb land when we found it [we can't] -- another Paratrooper game if this is the case
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(by working more hammers rather than food once Buddhism has spread) away... it's really nothing important -2
