The Great Library: Party In Shen Ling at the Expense of the Empire.

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Ok, I will bet almost everyteam is going for the great Library. I will also be other teams are not only technologically closer, but are also able to build them in better, more productive cities (surprise surprise).

Known to our current emperor of the FortyJ dynasty, Shen Ling cannot grow beyond a size 5 town. This is not very promising. It won't grow because the masses will not tolerate our undemocratic and despotic government. So, I have realized that to ensure we create a library to show the world how great and wonderous we are, we must make the people in Shen Ling happy.

How do we go about doing that? Well as you may have guessed by the title of this article, we raise the luxery slider. Once we discover literature, we must replace our science slider with our luxery slider at a rate just able to keep up with our population.

Imagine building in a size 8 city-- thats 6 more production per turn.

In fact, I propse we start doing this early-- if we can learn literature before someone else makes the Pyramids, then we can keep working on our prebuild, getting bigger and bigger, until finally we do learn literature, we are almost done with the pyramids. I mean, as long as we switch to TGL before we build the pyramids (like at the last turn) whats the difference between putting shields into the wrong one?
 
This is indeed an excellent way to keep the masses happy. Another would be to build a city near the incense. However, I'm not too sure that we're going to have a reasonable chance at the Library.
 
I believe Zhi Gang is our best shot at the GL. Maybe we could start a prebuild there after the settler and granary. Though the city may need culture to connect those furs.
 
Unless we can figure out a way for our cities to produce 2 or 3 different items at once, I think we should just concentrate on growth and Military. We've got to stop being everything to everybody and just go in one direction for a while. :rolleyes:
 
We cannot start a pre-build now. We need settlers right now, and Shen Ling can pump them out very quickly :D!
 
Yes. I think we need at least 2 more settlers out of Shen Ling before we consider any prebuilds there.

I'd love to have Zhi Gang build a wonder, being a coastal town and all. We might even snake the Great Lighthouse from our rivals if we were to try something there. However, the productive capacity of this town is somewhat limited at the moment. Fortunately, once Shen Ling's cultural borders expand, I believe we should get access to that other fur tile.

One more thing to consider. Shen Ling can continue pumping out Settlers faster and faster, but we will need some spearmen to protect these new towns. So, somebody's got to recruit those....

Oh, and Cyc's exactly right.... we need to focus on one strategy at a time. Perhaps you've heard the saying... "A jack of all trades is a master of none."
 
My advice: Just settle, settle, settle! We have a phenomenal growth rate, I say we use it!
 
Orriginally I was not even in favor of getting TGL, bt if we want it, this is the way to go.
 
I'd say that we should continue settling instead of building the Great Library as we have no chance of reaching it. The wonder that we should really shoot for is Sun Tzu. It's farther away and it's going to be a major factor in this game I think.
 
Sun Tzu... not a bad idea :)
 
We can survive without the GL people. Research key techs like the one we are researching now and we will be able to stay on top of the tech lead. Build a couple of librarys as well. Starting to build the GL is a big undertaking and should not be started for the sake of our civilization. We are in a great disadvantage here if you guys notice that ;). We could be half way and u never know with the small military we have now the GCA can just come and plan an attack us as soon as they find out we are starting to build something. Right now we need to concentrate on military and settlers, settler, and settlers.
 
Originally posted by Zukatah
I'd say that we should continue settling instead of building the Great Library as we have no chance of reaching it. The wonder that we should really shoot for is Sun Tzu. It's farther away and it's going to be a major factor in this game I think.

I agree with this as well, or even the Sistine Chapel.
 
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