Donovan Zoi
The Return
I would like your thoughts on the following proposal. This research initiative is being discussed and polled at Apolyton as well.
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In a nutshell, Poly is researching Education right now(complete in 5 turns) and will then start work on Astronomy. But rather than give us Education after they discover it, they would like to hold on to this tech until they complete Astronomy. They would then give us both techs at once.
The reasoning here is simple: techs that are passed around become less valuable to research for those who don't have that tech. And since GWT is behind all of us in the tech race, they would benefit greatly from our sharing of knowledge by being able to research those techs in less time.
Since we don't have an immediate need for Education(Universities), I see nothing wrong with delaying our acquisiton of Education. I do, however, see a need for Caravels and would like to see tech parity at Astronomy for this reason. Technically, we could even push this back our demand for parity at Navigation(when we finally gain control of the seas), but I do not want Apolyton to hold too many of our techs.
Of course, we would continue to pay 40gpt for the duration of this research.
Please let me know what you think of this plan, and post any questions or concerns. This will most likely be a running dialogue that I will have with Apolyton for the next few turns so any insight you have on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Once discussion on this matter has died down, I will post a poll.
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In a nutshell, Poly is researching Education right now(complete in 5 turns) and will then start work on Astronomy. But rather than give us Education after they discover it, they would like to hold on to this tech until they complete Astronomy. They would then give us both techs at once.
The reasoning here is simple: techs that are passed around become less valuable to research for those who don't have that tech. And since GWT is behind all of us in the tech race, they would benefit greatly from our sharing of knowledge by being able to research those techs in less time.
Since we don't have an immediate need for Education(Universities), I see nothing wrong with delaying our acquisiton of Education. I do, however, see a need for Caravels and would like to see tech parity at Astronomy for this reason. Technically, we could even push this back our demand for parity at Navigation(when we finally gain control of the seas), but I do not want Apolyton to hold too many of our techs.
Of course, we would continue to pay 40gpt for the duration of this research.
Please let me know what you think of this plan, and post any questions or concerns. This will most likely be a running dialogue that I will have with Apolyton for the next few turns so any insight you have on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Once discussion on this matter has died down, I will post a poll.