Tech Disscussion

[mike6426]

I view seeing the other continent as less important as fixing our economy. Thus, I believe that we should research printing press next, possibly moving towards democracy for emacipation. Of course, I am open to more ideas or input.

 

[dutchfire]

Feudalism - Guilds - Banking (Mercantilism+Banks) might be good if we want to continue fighting.

 

[mike6426]

As we are going to finish researching Printing Press soon, I believe that we should discuss the various techs, or tech paths, that we should take.

Some information on the techs are on Term 4-Office of Chief Scientist

 

[Hyronymus]

When discussing it, please also check if a GA or GP is about to be born. It's good to know what we want to do with them.

 

[grant2004]

my suggestion would be to head towards optics, I believe that contacting the other continent would give us some good options for trading technology, hopefully allowing us to grab a few techs. In the meantime I'd hope we'd be able to draw feudalism out of the Romans, and could then use that tech to head towards banking after optics, markets, banks and mercantilism will all help to reduce our deficit. I'm not a fan of pushing for democracy because it doesn't have many intermediate techs that will be useful for us, and it is a long road to reach democracy.

 

[dutchfire]

I'd value Guilds/Banking over Optics though, I think that by the time we finish optics, the AI will already have it too, so researching optics will not shorten the time we need to meet them greatly.

 

[DaveShack]

If we're interested in circumnavigating, then optics is interesting.

 

[Conroe]

I would also suggest Optics, as well. We already know that the AI on the other continent got to Literature and Music first. By delaying contact with them, you run the risk of being too far behind in techs to have anything worth trading.