Playing on... I'm doing little but city management right now.
How do defensive pacts work? Boldly and Bandit have had one for a while. I know if you declare war on one, you get war with the other. Maybe this is why Retep wants the end of the turn? If you then offer peace, does it force peace with the other as well? Can you cancel a defensive pact after 10 turns as usual? As you can tell I've never really played with them, other than dealing the with the side effect of fighting 2 AIs instead of 1.
I'm forcing some Research and Wealth builds, in order to get Radio in 2. I want to make a run at Cristo even if Retep is trying to deny it.
So, apparently, Factories and Coal Plants must factor into the Prod stat, right? And it's not just raw hammers? (Or am I just rising this quickly growing new cities onto workshops?) I don't think the Exp bonus factors into it, so this does seem a little odd.
Today I'm learning: at this point in the game with SP, junk filler cities are worth settling.
I'm over the conqueror's plateau now, so number of cities maintenance is capped at 6. And this city immediately makes 7 commerce, plus the addition to the Hindu shrine. (Also I can build the granary quickly with the mine, or work the village then build the granary at size 2... I don't really care that much which is slightly superior. Or at least I didn't until writing this.
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Island cities have a very clear profit just from domestic trade, so really I should have been spamming these all over the place, even in junk filler spots. It's not even that bad a rate of return on the settler.
Bandit switched to full war civics at the end of his GA, and appears do be doing whipping and / or drafting. Maybe I could use more military immediately, I don't know. What little I know about this era is that machine guns are a pain to take out before tanks, as in real life. And anything that comes at me with 1-movers would give me time to run max wealth, then upgrade a ton of rifles to infantry. (Retep doesn't even have HBR.) And I do have a lot of cannons as well. So bring it, I guess.
How do defensive pacts work? Boldly and Bandit have had one for a while. I know if you declare war on one, you get war with the other. Maybe this is why Retep wants the end of the turn? If you then offer peace, does it force peace with the other as well? Can you cancel a defensive pact after 10 turns as usual? As you can tell I've never really played with them, other than dealing the with the side effect of fighting 2 AIs instead of 1.
I'm forcing some Research and Wealth builds, in order to get Radio in 2. I want to make a run at Cristo even if Retep is trying to deny it.
So, apparently, Factories and Coal Plants must factor into the Prod stat, right? And it's not just raw hammers? (Or am I just rising this quickly growing new cities onto workshops?) I don't think the Exp bonus factors into it, so this does seem a little odd.
Today I'm learning: at this point in the game with SP, junk filler cities are worth settling.
I'm over the conqueror's plateau now, so number of cities maintenance is capped at 6. And this city immediately makes 7 commerce, plus the addition to the Hindu shrine. (Also I can build the granary quickly with the mine, or work the village then build the granary at size 2... I don't really care that much which is slightly superior. Or at least I didn't until writing this.
)Island cities have a very clear profit just from domestic trade, so really I should have been spamming these all over the place, even in junk filler spots. It's not even that bad a rate of return on the settler.
Bandit switched to full war civics at the end of his GA, and appears do be doing whipping and / or drafting. Maybe I could use more military immediately, I don't know. What little I know about this era is that machine guns are a pain to take out before tanks, as in real life. And anything that comes at me with 1-movers would give me time to run max wealth, then upgrade a ton of rifles to infantry. (Retep doesn't even have HBR.) And I do have a lot of cannons as well. So bring it, I guess.