Turn 130 -> 145.
Played 15 as it was pretty uneventful apart from a phony war and moving work boats.
- Swapped civics
- Put slider to 0% a couple of turns as it's better to wait for the capital to be in Corinth as it has an academy and a lot of commerce.
- My plans on chopping for gold into the MoM came to an early end, Toku finishes the wonder right as I take over. Fortunately there's still the Shwedagon Paya.
- Did the 5 gpt for cows deal with Justinian.
- Turn after Toku has 4 gpt available--I give him 1 of our 3 clam resources for it.
- Disband 4 warriors, and suddenly we're down to 16 upkeep (from 23), definitely worth it. I also switch the chariot scouting KK with the sentry one currently garrisoning a city. A couple of turns later we're at 12 upkeep, but I'm not sure what caused this extra drop.
- Turn 134 we get a request--I thought about this for several minutes.
After weighing pro and con and seeing that Izzy had no way to get to us and that the relationship is doomed anyway I accepted the request. A secondary bonus was that this allowed our work boat exploring westwards to pass through Spanish territory instead of getting disbanded. At the end of the turnset it has made it through Spanish territory unharmed.
- Turn 135 I sell Literature to Tokugawa for 190 gold.
- Turn 136 The Shwedagon Paya has been built by someone (I think it was Kublai Khan) before I got to chop all of the forests, but we still bank in on ~230 gold.
- Turn 137 Athens spawn a GS and it bulbs education together with the other one. Research got set to compass after paper while waiting for the GS. It's a tech the AI often delays and we need it as it's before a lot of things on the bulbing list. I'm hoping to be able to trade for MC.
- Turn 138
Toku converts to Buddhism !!! That certainly put an end to our plans of getting him and KK to fight each other. I think this was more bad than good as the Buddhist-block is a little too big now, but there was nothing to be done about it. The moment he converted I gifted him CoL as everyone else had it by now. It wasn't enough to get him to pleased, but I got around to that later. We're currently putting a turn into Liberalism while waiting for someone to teach us MC.
- Turn 139 I decide to gift Toku Compass to decrease the risk of a war declaration. He's bumped up to pleased and we open borders, always a fun moment!
- Turn 139 We have 400 beakers invested into Liberalism and have to stop there. I set research to Gunpowder. We're currently getting 171 beakers per turn with +3 gold coming in. Our economy is getting pretty strong now.
- Turn 143 I beg Toku for 40 gold, and he accepts!? What's going on here?!
- Can't remember exactly when, but I begged Ragnar for gold as well at some point during the turnset.
- Our other work boat has gotten past Kublai's territory, but still hasn't met anyone. If I had known Toku would open borders I'd send it south-east instead, but certain things you just can't predict.
- We're currently 1 turn away from gunpowder, but KK/Justinian STILL won't trade MC, I'm losing my mind here.
We could try to gift something to Justinian and get him to friendly to speed up our Steel/Chemistry. We need to go through MC/Machinery now, and it would be best to have someone help out there. Tech screen is below, as you can see Justinian (and KK) has machinery, so if we get Justinian to friendly we can trade for both and then head onto Printing Press and by the time we finish Printing Press he might've researched Engineering for us. But that's not a necessity, we can do it ourselves as well.
Reason why i stopped 1 turn before Gunpowder was that we have to decide now. If we finish Gunpowder and then trade for MC machinery won't be open and we'll waste a turn. We have to do it now and then trade for machinery the next turn.
Be aware that we need to research construction as well though (before Engineering and Chemistry). As pigswill expected nobody wants to trade it. I've seen the same thing happening too, but wasn't fully sure earlier.
- Athens will produce the next GS in 1 or 2 turns. Sparta will have no problem getting the next one. Thebes is currently on starvation instead of working food-neutral tiles. The moment it has grassland farms ready make a switch.
- I've started the NE in Athens (1 turn).
- The GS Athens is getting now will lightbulb Liberalism. The one Sparta is getting will lightbulb PP and the next one (probably Athens) will lightbulb 1/2 of chemistry, but we might end up 1 short. It's extra effective if we can 2x lightbulb Chemistry. Maybe we can squeeze one more in with some starvation in Thebes, we'll see. If we have to self-research Engineering we might have time though.
- KK still has enough on his hands, but his stack is still located nearby Turfan (at least it was 2 turns ago).
- Izzy is ready for peacetalks, but are we?
- Farm from Corinth towards the rice to the north--it lacks fresh water.
Olodune is up next.
for every forest and we really want money right now. What's your take on this? We could do it in Knossos as well (gold - schwedagon paya).
). The backbone of our economy will be GPPs and production ... cottages can be liberated in our cannon wars. Corinth will be a nice hybrid city focusing on specials/farms/mines/workshops.
Oh well, I guess it's for the greater good if you've fixed it/find out how to avoid it in the future. And yes, I was using the most recent version (2.3).
