Not sure how gifting Toku Holy Pigs was a mistake....we'll get CS from him and kill him
(in short term, if producing spies we may want to station 2 or 3 near Holy Pigs, for now, just in case the first two fail)
I'm not totally sure on exactly what we need for AP. I assume now that Tao will be the AP religion.
The knowns:
1) Theo teched > Build AP
2) To enable vote, every living civ needs at least 1 city with the AP religion
3) Full members (running AP religion) get double votes based on population in cities with AP religion / Voting member (not in AP religion) get normal votes based on pop in cities with AP
4) AP owner (assuming us) is always one of the two candidates for both Resident voting and DV voting
(this may be important as you don't have to be in AP religion to win DV if you own the Palace)
5) no civ can have more the 75% of all DV votes
6) Vassals must vote for master. However, a vassal can be a DV candidate if a Full member (we don't want a vassal in Tao - probably unlikely anyway)
As mentioned, the assumption is Stalin and Toke will be dead. That leaves 6 other civs. Americans are assumed to be vassal and we can gift him more cities with Tao. In fact, we probably should gift the remaining cities with Tao to increase his Tao pop. Ottos I think we might just kill. Not sure on the remaining 4.
Assuming Russia, Japan, Ottos dead and Americans are vassal, we would need to gift 4 living civs with a Tao city (assuming they will have 3 or less cities). We can place these anywhere near us for fast settle/spread. So:
4 settlers/4 mishes for French/English/Romans/Germans
Not totally sure on our plan for Americans, but seem to recall wanting 4 gift cities to attack to make him a vassal. That would be 3 more settlers and I think we should Tao up each one.
Above changes based on killing more of the civs (Germans?)..or maybe we just cap everyone else except maybe Ottos.
Regardless, that is a good bit of stuff to produce.
As for how to deal with the vote %, I can't really fathom that at the moment. We can do calcs on religion/pop as we move forward. Once AP is built we can see it too. But right now, that number would fluctuate quite a lot due to frequent pop changes. As noted above, we could change out of Tao out the end if our Tao pop is just too much and still qualify for DV.
We could probably do a hypothetical calc on Tao % based on the above assumptions, but I'm not sure how accurate I am on those assumption. Probably assume for now that each Tao city outside our own will be only 1 pop.
Hmm..right now we have 23 Tao pop. So 46 as a full member. Also, I think we plan to spread Tao to one or two more of our cities for Paci. But going by what we have now, and assuming at least 8 more 1pop Tao cities, that leaves us a 85% of the vote. If we are not in Tao, that would put us at 74%.
They way I look at it now is that we can enable the vote, but unless we significantly reduce our own Tao pop, we will have problems with the 75% threshold, unless we switch out of Tao.
I guess we could also gift one of the larger Tao cities near the end like Holy Farm, but that also may have an impact on the civil ministry numbers.
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Yep, the more we kill the less we need. I thought we might kill Germans. However, we should keep in mind that this means less Tao cities outside our own, so we will need to figure out the math on that as we go.
hey hey
let's not forget that Jan and Praet that are both perpetually patrolling (or just trolling) our empire
Yep, less Tao pop will be necessary one way or another (or switching out of Tao). Some cities might grow fast though, but we could avoid growth if necessary (something to think about near the end).
We also should keep tabs on Roos after we vassal him. We could gift him a larger Tao city near the end to reduce our votes and increase his. However, we don't want him switching to Tao either. Not sure what his demos are at the moment. (that is, ofc, if we can still gift him stuff ..elite can answer whether their is a limit on another continent)
(and yeah..can't gift cities with wonders, ofc)
I assumed he was referring to civil ministry
2 HAs, 3 Spies (48), 65 Shweg gold
(minus a few for rounding, I guess). This should easily be enough. 
