But it doesn't add much to research. Breakeven at size 2. I'm sure they don't regret settling it now that we've seen the map, but it shouldn't have put them ahead of us. We've been sacrificing growth for immediate tech needs so I can't wait to see if they're actually ahead in research. How much of your chart reading is science and how much is art?
Some things are certain.
T14 AH (didn’t slow workers)
Myst, Sailing, Mng same as us. BW 1t ahead but shouldn’t have been ofc.
Then it gets iffy.
Meanwhile their pop was quite a bit ahead of us. They farmed the rice first and grew Science. 2clams was far ahead of Canal.
T49 they teched something (we TW), but I don’t see the +4K power change. Instead +2k. Did they whip away 2k power? Not according to their score, which would reflect that noticeably. T49 Masonry? Could be, for GLH. Their culture jumps about 6cpt on T56. Could Cows build GLH in 7t, with maxOF from lh and chops? Seems like close to 100h in chops or a second maxOF.
Originally I thought the 6 culture spike was from whipping 3 libraries, but again, I don’t see the massive drop in pop from 2- or 3-whipping.
So I’m perplexed because whipping can decrease power while teching increases it. Up till BW it was easy to follow. Then there’s the uncertainty of when they settled cities.
Clear power jump on T71, maybe corresponding to T71 Math (+6k). Clear culture jump T77 for Confu. T84 Oracle clear from culture. T85 IW from the +10k power. Two revolts certain from the culture graph.
What really makes this possible is PR saving almost every turn. Culture goes to 0 during revolt, for example.
per turn trade routes.
