So what's new in this game, that has become kind of surreal?
Retep, the tech leader, appears basically checked out. He's playing 5 minute turns min-maxing for tech. Bandit is building up military, for what I'm not sure. Oxy has declared on Molach. Good luck with that, North Korea! Molach has tons of units, and though a lot of it is junk he does have infantry and Oxy has nothing better than muskets that I have seen.
My workers are basically out of stuff to do, and some are railing up Xenu's territory as a sort of quasi-alliance.
I'm going to try and fill in some of the city sites that Retep is too lazy to, because I think they will pay for themselves if only marginally.
I'm thinking I should actually research how to run a space race optimally, by reading T-Hawk reports and stuff like that.
It would help to know where the bottlenecks and critical path are and where the tech should go first so everything finishes at the same time. I've won in space plenty of times vs the CPU, but it was years ago and it was always a pretty casual affair.
Biology is done, and I got Democracy for the civics. Industrialism is next, I guess.
Cristo is due at the end of the turn, so I have at least a coin flip if Retep is trying to deny it. That will help a lot. We don't need Hereditary Rule anymore, either Universal Suffrage or Rep is much better now, and I'm not sure which wins yet. The beauty of Cristo is we can actually try them both perhaps. Also it makes sense to switch from OR to Free Religion now, for the flat 10% science boost. Also being able to switch to Nationalism for emergency drafts is huge.
Airship scouting:
Man, retep sure isn't guarding Chirimolla with much. Is he not worried about a couple of rifles razing that from a boat trick?
We're building a lead on pop. GNP will catch up with the civic changes (I hope) and when we can change health builds to wealth and research. Right now I'm working on several grocers, aqueducts, public transit, etc., to deal with the industrial age.
Retep, the tech leader, appears basically checked out. He's playing 5 minute turns min-maxing for tech. Bandit is building up military, for what I'm not sure. Oxy has declared on Molach. Good luck with that, North Korea! Molach has tons of units, and though a lot of it is junk he does have infantry and Oxy has nothing better than muskets that I have seen.
My workers are basically out of stuff to do, and some are railing up Xenu's territory as a sort of quasi-alliance.
I'm going to try and fill in some of the city sites that Retep is too lazy to, because I think they will pay for themselves if only marginally.
I'm thinking I should actually research how to run a space race optimally, by reading T-Hawk reports and stuff like that.
It would help to know where the bottlenecks and critical path are and where the tech should go first so everything finishes at the same time. I've won in space plenty of times vs the CPU, but it was years ago and it was always a pretty casual affair.Biology is done, and I got Democracy for the civics. Industrialism is next, I guess.
Cristo is due at the end of the turn, so I have at least a coin flip if Retep is trying to deny it. That will help a lot. We don't need Hereditary Rule anymore, either Universal Suffrage or Rep is much better now, and I'm not sure which wins yet. The beauty of Cristo is we can actually try them both perhaps.
Also it makes sense to switch from OR to Free Religion now, for the flat 10% science boost. Also being able to switch to Nationalism for emergency drafts is huge.Airship scouting:
Man, retep sure isn't guarding Chirimolla with much. Is he not worried about a couple of rifles razing that from a boat trick?
We're building a lead on pop. GNP will catch up with the civic changes (I hope) and when we can change health builds to wealth and research. Right now I'm working on several grocers, aqueducts, public transit, etc., to deal with the industrial age.