GP Plan Options. Thinking out loud.
In general, we need to finish the plan early because we need to research Bio manually (then 1t liberalism). Bio estimate: 7 turns at 800 final bpt.
Possible cities: Starting with Worst cities
TAT (7-8 food)
(+9 food) Quahog, Southport
+10: Whales, Ivory, 2Corn
3Fish
or ClamIsle can be super strong or they could both be normal.
Bulbs
(Philo) PPress, Chem, Edu, SciMeth, SciMeth
Minimum GS plan would be 5-6 bulbs (depending on Philo free)
#1 GAge
#2-3 Astro
#4 GAge#2 (non-GS from Cows)
#5 -10 GS's (one for GAge#2, 5 bulbs)
as we all know, #11 and up cost 200 more each so these would be at least 2 turns apart.
Max GS plan (7-8 bulbs -- 1 more for Edu and Chem)
Ultra Max we double bulb PPress too.
24 turns of GAge. Would be nice to save 8 of those turns for teching after SciMeth is bulbed.
So, plan for 16 turns of GS generation.
For now, I'm assuming
no Parthenon, but with
Pacifism. (+300%).
NO banking/Merc
In a perfect world, with this set of cities, we could probably put out 8 GS's
on T+7, T+8, T+9, T+10, T+11, T+12, T+15 and T+18
I don't think any GP farm (because of forest limitation) is capable of getting the GLib and still be large pop, so that's out. NatEpic same problem? It's small, so I'll revisit this.
Otherwise, we only have one city (ClamsIsle OR 3Fish -- not both) that pull off a 2t late GS.
I conclude that we will likely
cut the two 3t GSs and end the run by
rushing one T+14.
Follow me?
That's 7 GSs, 6 bulbs. during 14 turns of GAge.
Cities (Size)
we'd want to pop them in this order:
TAT - 500gpp
2Corn (size 8-9)
whales (9)
southport(8)
Quahog(
8 or 9)
add a farm here?
Ivory(9+)
3Fish or Clams (11)
What if our organic research is dragging? What if we really wanted 8 GSs?
Timeline
To get our cities ready, our newest city (slowest to set up), Ivory City, will need 25 turns to get to size 9 with no library (that's T132 - win the game 154)
Ideally get it to size 10 (at T134) or, add a library delays GA start to (T139)
Conclusions:
GAge start: T132, win the game T154
6 bulbs after Astro (either Philo is one or we double bulb Edu)
Start TAT on a GS early, especially if we want to keep working those furs. (i.e. continue to
work the 2sci even after T116.)
Slip a library into StoneCity as a fallback if you don't need military or multiple failgold whips. I suspect we need the failgold.