whats a navy
Prince
I've been heavily addicted to multiplayer the past few months and in most games tech trades are off in order to stop cheating between players. This eliminates the power of bulbs by Great Scientists so I was wondering what to do with them once I settle my first academy in the capital. So far I see three options.
1)Settle in the capital
I chose to settle in the capital when the game is still young (before 500AD) and I have a low slider because of war or mids with representations.
2) Make academy in other science cities
Usually when I have another great city that is running a lot of cottages or is just a beast. When I play earth evolution 2 or earth 18 I find myself in this scenario a lot because you can have some really good cities with the resource concentration in Europe/east Asia.
3)Use for Golden Age
I like this option a lot because in multiplayer the speed is always quick. This makes revolts a pain after you have multiple cities so the only civic I like to switch to without revolt is slavery. Using the Golden Age spiritual switch is a great play but if I don't have MoM I tend to shy away from golden ages with multiple great people that include scientists.
4)Bulb Anyways
I do this only when the race to lib or astro is looking very close and I need philosophy or education badly (or astro itself). I don't know if it is worth it but I talk myself into it because gaining liberalism is an extra 3000-4000 beakers and stops my opponent from getting the free beakers. This ends up in a 7000 beaker swing in my favor against the top civilization. Astro is also heavily important if I want to colonize the new world in earth evolution 2 before any other civs.
Note: Earth Evolution is the Rhye's Earth map with tweaks to make the 18 civs all old world and have the new world open to colonization by England/Japan/Portugal/Mali to make the game balanced between civs.
1)Settle in the capital
I chose to settle in the capital when the game is still young (before 500AD) and I have a low slider because of war or mids with representations.
2) Make academy in other science cities
Usually when I have another great city that is running a lot of cottages or is just a beast. When I play earth evolution 2 or earth 18 I find myself in this scenario a lot because you can have some really good cities with the resource concentration in Europe/east Asia.
3)Use for Golden Age
I like this option a lot because in multiplayer the speed is always quick. This makes revolts a pain after you have multiple cities so the only civic I like to switch to without revolt is slavery. Using the Golden Age spiritual switch is a great play but if I don't have MoM I tend to shy away from golden ages with multiple great people that include scientists.
4)Bulb Anyways
I do this only when the race to lib or astro is looking very close and I need philosophy or education badly (or astro itself). I don't know if it is worth it but I talk myself into it because gaining liberalism is an extra 3000-4000 beakers and stops my opponent from getting the free beakers. This ends up in a 7000 beaker swing in my favor against the top civilization. Astro is also heavily important if I want to colonize the new world in earth evolution 2 before any other civs.
Note: Earth Evolution is the Rhye's Earth map with tweaks to make the 18 civs all old world and have the new world open to colonization by England/Japan/Portugal/Mali to make the game balanced between civs.