Slow Tech Tree

[GrimyGrifter]

Okay, so I'm moving on to advanced novice. I have two Warlord Level military victories and a cultural victory on chieftan.

But the tech tree moves at a snail's pace. I'd love to deal with the politics of nuclear weapons and try for a space race victory, but no one ever gets much past tanks and bombers.

My question: Is it the low levels I'm playing or some other game setting that will move the tree forward?

 

[Grohan]

Tech race is faster at higher levels.

 

[hawai_74]

Grohan's right. tech race is faster by trade when youre at regent level and higher.

 

[Gengis Khan]

It's the low levels. You're having to research nearly every tech yourself due to the AI being backwards.

Once you get up to Regent/Monarch, the AIs will be equaling your tech pace so you can trade tech for tech & move alot faster.

Once you get up to Diety, the AIs have a huge discount on techs then another sizable discount on trading between each other so the pace is blistering.

 

[Serpico]

Play with accelerated production, it halves research costs.

 

[Ranos]

I never had any problem researching the techs myself on lower levels. My tech game always moved quickly and unless I get a cultural victory, I always make it to the modern era.

 

[kb2tvl]

Give away or sell cheap techs to the lowest tech advanced civ. The best techs to give away are republic/demo/currency/banking and other techs that encourage plenty of cash and peaceful building.

 

[Jawz II]

just play on emperor,forget about deity

im getting pretty good at civ,i could probably pull off a win in deity,but it would take too much micro management

just play on a level that is challenging but also fun

if u pick a level too hard u just end up pissing yerself off

 

[viper275]

I use clever funding for science. Start with almost too much to handle, then once you're almost broke, cut back and the limits won't be as extreme. Also, research what the opponents aren't researching and exchange techs unless you have a very good reason... like you need to build a wonder from the tech, the tech could give the AI military strength that you don't want, etc.

Read this for other good ideas.

 

[FireBall]

Originally posted by kb2tvl
Give away or sell cheap techs to the lowest tech advanced civ. The best techs to give away are republic/demo/currency/banking and other techs that encourage plenty of cash and peaceful building.

Normally, civs with low tech trees have EXTREMELY little money... I once I tried tro sell Democracy to a low-tech civ, and they could only give me 10 GP/ Turn for it... while other civs had given me 50 or so.

 

[general_kill]

Try going to the map editor and lowering the prices of the techs.

 

[Illusion13]

Ever heard of libraries, universities, the Copernicus's Observatory, and Newton's College? Those things work like wonders OH PUN!