Tall Science Empire

[troc]

I am trying to build a tall science Empire, but have some important doubts...

First of all, should I opt for tradition and try to buy my settlers? Or should I go with liberty and then use GP from the finisher to have a GE and bulb Hagia Sophia and get another GE to bulb Porcelain tower? Should I try a mixed start? (This is my most pressing concern).

Secondly, how many cities are recommended. I am thinking of anywhere from 3-5 cities but I'm open to all suggestions.

Lastly, I want to play as Korea (perfect for a tall science empire)...any specific tips or strategies for this Civ????

Sorry for the many questions and thanks in advance

 

[Tabarnak]

Try this.

 

[Derpy Hooves]

For science, your bottleneck will always be your population, so getting as much cities as possible is strictly speaking the best option.
One of the most important considerations you should make is whether or not you want to do some conquering, as even as puppets they can be great assets to your science score.
And I find that doing a lot of conquering generates large amounts of gold, if not from the capture bonus and the favorable peace settlements then there's always peddling the lux resources you just connected, so you can just rushbuy courthouses, aquaducts, libraries and such and make it into a large city.

If your more into the peaceful kind of thing, which is a shame as with the tech advantages it's like taking candy from a baby, I'd go for about 5-7 cities, make sure their 3 tile work grids overlap as little as possible so they have a lot of room to build farms and such and just build like crazy, and obviously try to get as many lux resources possible with your city placement.

I'd fill out tradition and just rushbuy the settler, as far as Hagia Sofia is concerned, I don't think I've ever missed that one, do some citizen management if needed but on prince to immortal your not in much risk of losing it to another civ unless you settle in a bad spot, for some reason I've always seen them prioritize the Angkor Kwat.

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

As Korea, you can do the "early science rush" ie a rex with unemploying first citizen. While limiting growth at first, it allows you time to build your culture/happiness infrastructure. You just have to be sure to complete Tradition policy branch.

 

[apocalypse105]

Liberty is good because you can get a free engineer so you can rush the porcelain tower or notre dam

And the reduce of culture cost by founding cities is good because you want to go into rationalisme.

 

[ifinnem]

Strictly speaking population is only a bottleneck for science ito raw beakers.
Since the majority of will come from GS bulbs and RAs this isn't too much of an issue

Having said that you can certainly crank the beakers with a few large cities using Korea (or Siam given UA + legalism abuse for UB). We managed to push well over a 1000 per turn in the early turn 200s in some RA free games we did late last year...

Check these out if you are interested RA free strategy