The best advance

[Austin the Great]

I think the best technology advance is industrialization. When you discover it you can build womens sufferage, factories(important for creating stuff for a war), and transport ships. It also opens up new advances like communism(important to me, one time i had a monarchy and a city with a population of 15, it had a food surplus of one,I changed to communism and the surplus went up to 7) and conscription.

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[Thunderfall]

It's hard to say which one is best. Railroads and Invensions are pretty good.

 

[TTG]

Masonry - City walls, palace, Great Wall, Pyramids...

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[stellar converter]

i would say computers, dem., or space flight

computers:allows seti, or computer lab. huge tech jump

dem.:the best form of gov, no question about it.

space flight:my normal route for winning.

OCC is so fun

 

[Smash]

Writing and Trade.Diplomats and caravans are all you need to win games if you think about it.

 

[Blitz]

Republic.

Government creates the conditions for economic growth. With Republic, startling advances can be made. Give me a Republic and I can beat anyone.

Austin, factories are not decisive in the game, because the massive investment required to build them means large amounts of surplus capital already need to be available. The pre-conditions for this economic capital are found in Republican government.

Blitz.

 

[stellar converter]

true story. game can be beaten with only caravans actually. library is necessary though.

 

[Blitz]

Originally posted by stellar converter:
true story. game can be beaten with only caravans actually. library is necessary though.

How?

Blitz

 

[stellar converter]

occ

 

[usgreth]

To using carvans, It would be kinda hellish if you didnt use settlers/engineers too though.
Although I like invention,republic and industralization (purely for suffrage to support my republic <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/smilies/cwm1.gif" border=0> ) my favourite advance would have to be railroad, darwins voyage is nice, and the production/mobility you get really make a difference

 

[SlowwHand]

Sorry all.
Close, but no cigar.
It's Economics, and then building Adam Smith's.
What??? you say.
Sure. All 1 cost improvements paid for, and instead put into luxuries and we love the days, or science.
This advice was free, the next will cost you.
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[oedo]

Horsebackriding! That´s why I always choose it first.

 

[Steve]

Early on, at least, I always shoot straight for Monarchy. I'll even bypass other military advances in lieu of Monarchy, because it's easy to play catch up after you've got it. After that, probably Automobile because there's just something about being able to build battleships and start kicking some a** that is soooo damn sweet!

 

[Moker]

i would vote automobile. it leads to armor, gives you battleships. and the best of all you get superhighways.

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[stellar converter]

what happened to our good friend austin anywya

 

[Michspirit99]

I think Rocketry is the best.It eventually leads up to getting nukes.>the best weapons<and you get the aegis cruiser,sam missle batteries and the cruise missle.Thats unbeatable.

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[woke25]

ill go with oedo here, Horsebackriding is the far most important tech. It will allow you to find many huts soon in the game, you will get cities faster then you can build them in huts. also you get gold and units from huts, which can be formed to settlers.

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[Martin Schmidt]

My choice would be monotheism .

 

[scorch]

no way, it is deinatlly Masonry. coz it sux when you start the game, and you have nothing to build,

 

[Håkan Eriksson]

The Laser so that you can defend your self from nuclear missiles.

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