Let's do 0% research until the library is out. Or is there a reason to move forward on T30?
I had a further thought about this. Do we need to clarify is the total military points are simply capped at 100, or if the population / land area / kills points are individually capped at 30/30/40?Goal #3 52% land
I estimate we need 30 settlers to fill out the ~850 tiles.
That's after capturing the existing cities + 5 more newly settled AI cities.
The conquer goal was already set at ~T60 to get London.
So once we have enough army, we'd have to get settlers out very fast so they can get into place and have time to pop borders, but I can see meeting this goal at the same time our last captured cities: Paris, London come out of revolt.
If we had to, we could even raze those and re-settle to avoid the revolt wait, but I think we have plenty of other things holding us back (culture, tech, and wonders)
So, no need for 30 settlers.
I think you are correct on how the scoring works, so yea, mass settling is off the list of critical items.
Oh, yeah, that...we need to win the game
Let's do 0% research until the library is out. Or is there a reason to move forward on T30?
I had a further thought about this. Do we need to clarify is the total military points are simply capped at 100, or if the population / land area / kills points are individually capped at 30/30/40?
If the former is the case:
Killing everyone but Roosy - that’s 7 kills for 35pts. We would likely have a large population lead on Roosy and barbs - what do you think? Maybe 70% population?
30pts*(70%/35%) = 60pts
We would only need 10% land area to get to 100 in that case.
If the latter:
It’s 35pts for kills, 30pts for population, and we still need 60% land for the remainder.
Given how the diplo works (i.e. 58 points for AP, rather than 50), I think the former is likely to be the case.
So, no need for 30 settlers.
Am I wrong?
Tokyo is not going to do much research for Toku.
Manchou weirdly has 37h in its current build.
T25(--h settler completed)
T26(--h barracks completed), growth to pop4
T27(18h) furs camped, worker ready to move, +7 final-h = 6h * 125% OR bonus
T28(25h) Manchou-1s2e apparently roaded by 2nd worker but maybe earlier, growth to pop5 so not building a settler, +12 final-h = 10h * 125% OR bonus
T29(37h)
Manchou cannot be building an Ancient Era unit or a lbm (28h), which makes no sense with a settler waiting for an escort. 37h can only be a temple (38h), a library (43h), some other later era building or unit or a wonder. No chops have been completed by Manchou.
So it's probably a library, since Toku has a science Flavor 2. If so, on T30 he'll complete the library, the SabProd will be --, and there will be 4h overflow, so that on T31 he could have put 14h into an archer(12h), and axe(16h) or a sword(19h). If we're lucky it's not an archer and we can DoW and pillage the iron to put the hammers into a warrior (or does that erase them?).
I hate AP. Such a PITA timing it. Okay, bbp, you're hired. Just don't time it for later than we need it.That, or we win by AP, skip 2GA and all the 3LC mess, build 15 wonders. We only tech Theo, Aest, Lit and maybe HBR.
I don't think we need to worry about civil. With the cultural slider and lots of healthies, I think we can get 95-100 no matter how many AIs are living.Note that if we kill 7ai, we get minimum 96 civil points, and probably 97-98.
I think we want to kill 7 anyway, because 1 kill = 10% land area = 164 tiles = 8-10 settlers.I don't think we need to worry about civil. With the cultural slider and lots of healthies, I think we can get 95-100 no matter how many AIs are living.