Upgrade Allocation! Halt Science?

[Sir Donald III]

This is the Second of two Polls pertaining to the upgrades and rushes pertaining to the Advent of Feudalism and the Defense of our Nation.

Currently, we have 200 Gold to spend on Upgrades and Rushes in the other poll. This is enough for 10 purchases.

The idea came up in the discussion thread to cut Science for 1 turn netting us enough Gold for 3 more purchases, more or less.

And, of course, I always want to have a little bit left.

Poll open for 48 Hours, choose the option you favor most.

 

[Rik Meleet]

I have a different plan; hold science and use the Eridu taxman as a scientist. We can keep that up for a few (3 or 4) turns. Only Babylon has Monotheism (our next tech) and we hold a monopoly on Feudalism. We can delay research (while still researching) and build up gold. If we are lucky the Monotheism tech gets traded around, reducing the cost for us in purchasing it.

so: Rik's Other = use an Eriduan scientist for X turns; X being the moment another nation has feudalism (killing our monopoly) or 4 nations have Monotheism.

BTW: those polls are posted really quickly ...

 

[Sir Donald III]

I'd rather have 48 Hours than 24...

 

[Chieftess]

I say use it atleast a little sparingly. We don't know how much we'll need for emergency rushes.

 

[Strider]

I'd prefer not to do the upgrades at all, well, maybe one or two in bordor cities, but we should save our gold.

Why? Trading off all of our gold would kill us trade/diplomacy wise. What if inorder to make peace with a civ, we need 70g, but because of the trade don't have that 70?

Thousands of possible faults, and for what? Some spearmen in the middle of our empire can be upgraded to a pike? Come on, maybe when we have so much gold we don't know what to do with it, but for what now, lets save it.

 

[blackheart]

I believe we should upgrade as much as possible on the border but keep our science to the max. We need a tech advantage over our opponents.

 

[Cyc]

Only upgrade in the South, save the gold, and keep Science high.

 

[Black_Hole]

polls has some confusing options, but i dont care what you upgrade as long as we dont plunge science! we need chivalry in this war, and we cant get that without science

 

[MOTH]

so: Rik's Other = use an Eriduan scientist for X turns; X being the moment another nation has feudalism (killing our monopoly) or 4 nations have Monotheism.

Eridu's taxman will be going back to work farming this turn chat. I do agree that using a scientist somewhere is desirable, but it should be in one of the highly corrupt cities with surplus food.

 

[Civman2004]

Really depends - if that peace deal with the Babs goes through we should concentrate all efforts on the eastern front.

 

[TimBentley]

Eridu's taxman will be going back to work farming this turn chat. I do agree that using a scientist somewhere is desirable, but it should be in one of the highly corrupt cities with surplus food.

Pete comes to mind.

 

[classical_hero]

Only upgrade in the South, save the gold, and keep Science high.

That is my 'other' also. We need to make sure that we are still making some gold for our war effort. This should have been an option.

 

[Ashburnham]

I agree with focusing our defense on the south. With our growing swordsman army, we will be pushing the Romans hard on the east, thus our (already adequetly defended) eastern cities are secure. As for reducing science, I am strongly opposed. Chivalry is a huge priority for the public, and slacking on science will only push that goal farther away. Besides, we still don't know how advanced the civilizations on other continents are; slowing our advancement may be giving them more of an advantage than they already may have.

 

[Sir Donald III]

This poll is to determine how much to spend in upgrades.

The other poll determines what to Upgrade/Rush.

So, the "Upgrade only in the South, Save the Gold, and Keep Science High" vote would be properly expressed by a "Save 40 and Keep Science" vote in this poll, and votes to only Upgrade Vet & Reg Spears in the South and possibly Rush Eridu's Walls in the other poll.

Unless you wanted to keep 60 or more Gold, in which case, "Other" is the correct expression. Make sure to support only the "Southern Province" options at the exclusion of the others in the other poll, however.