Turn 81
We were missing a city name for "I" so I went with "Izzy".. Happy to rename it though! Btw, I always forget to check your worker names..
Izzy will get a WB, granary and a galley quickly chopped/whipped. You can also see that our capital whipped the settler for "Jelly Bean". In the north we are completing two work boats. As a reminder, Englbert and Gertie will pop borders eot82 and on t83 we will connect 2x fish and whales.
Yeah, I'm liking Alphabet more and more and turning tech on T83 is the way to go
I'll probably check if running 20 % on T82 or something like that would allow us to finish it eot86 though.
So many attractive options! CoL can also be added to that list.. I liked your top-tree analysis, Gertie with Moai+Globe is a great idea! I think potential music artist and those wonders are probably not big enough attraction that we would like to immediately prioritize the top of the tree though?
Yeah, building research is not too attractive. Luckily Alphabet is potentially so strong that it equals passive currency benefit + 10gpt from wealth builds without actually spending any hammers Negative aspect of alpha is that other civs will see our techs, but hopefully it does not matter too much.. One reason I like Alpha is that it can also create us some friends. Cyneheard and Cheater Hater should realize that us providing them early OBs is an enormous gift and hopefully we can establish friendly relations that allow us to focus on eating Azza (and Mardoc)..
And yeah, I think we want to take control of those islands early even if we would get a decent amount of foreign trade routes. When we get Currency it will be likely that we need to use domestic trade routes again unless we want to trade with Azza/Mardoc or manage to scout new players. And as you said, there's a fair chance that something delicious can be found there and it would be nice to finalize our pretty greedy western border..
Btw, Alphabet is 430 adjusted beakers, but maybe you ment that it is close to 250 raw beakers (although that's a bit too little as well so I'm probably missing something)? Pre-req bonus to Currency should save something like 60-70 raw beakers (so in essence 1-2 turns of research).
A part of me also likes early Alphabet, because it differs from the usual Currency-beeline mantra and it's more of a use-your-own-brains choice
I think I'll log in shortly there and accidentally exit directly to desktop..
We were missing a city name for "I" so I went with "Izzy".. Happy to rename it though! Btw, I always forget to check your worker names..
Izzy will get a WB, granary and a galley quickly chopped/whipped. You can also see that our capital whipped the settler for "Jelly Bean". In the north we are completing two work boats. As a reminder, Englbert and Gertie will pop borders eot82 and on t83 we will connect 2x fish and whales.
(June 24th, 2014, 01:46)Old Harry Wrote: Looks like we could turn on tech t83 (when the library in Alfie completes) to get Alphabet t87. At that point Currency will cost 120 beakers less (~360 I believe) but will be worth another 20 gpt (if we can meet some more people) at least.
Yeah, I'm liking Alphabet more and more and turning tech on T83 is the way to go
I'll probably check if running 20 % on T82 or something like that would allow us to finish it eot86 though.Quote:I guess we'd want Masonry straight after Alphabet for stone for Moai, so on t89 we'd need to decide:
- Construction->HBR,
- Currency,
- Calendar or
- Aesthetics->Lit/Drama->Music?
So many attractive options!
CoL can also be added to that list.. I liked your top-tree analysis, Gertie with Moai+Globe is a great idea! I think potential music artist and those wonders are probably not big enough attraction that we would like to immediately prioritize the top of the tree though?Quote:The only trouble with Alphabet is that building wealth gets you the library bonus when the cash is converted to beakers, while building research doesn't. It's certainly not a big problem, and the IC trade routes are far more important to us. It also means we don't need to settle the tundra island in the south in such a hurry, although I'll bet there is a precious metal to be had down there, so scouting it is still important.
Yeah, building research is not too attractive. Luckily Alphabet is potentially so strong that it equals passive currency benefit + 10gpt from wealth builds without actually spending any hammers
Negative aspect of alpha is that other civs will see our techs, but hopefully it does not matter too much.. One reason I like Alpha is that it can also create us some friends. Cyneheard and Cheater Hater should realize that us providing them early OBs is an enormous gift and hopefully we can establish friendly relations that allow us to focus on eating Azza (and Mardoc)..And yeah, I think we want to take control of those islands early even if we would get a decent amount of foreign trade routes. When we get Currency it will be likely that we need to use domestic trade routes again unless we want to trade with Azza/Mardoc or manage to scout new players. And as you said, there's a fair chance that something delicious can be found there and it would be nice to finalize our pretty greedy western border..
Btw, Alphabet is 430 adjusted beakers, but maybe you ment that it is close to 250 raw beakers (although that's a bit too little as well so I'm probably missing something)? Pre-req bonus to Currency should save something like 60-70 raw beakers (so in essence 1-2 turns of research).
A part of me also likes early Alphabet, because it differs from the usual Currency-beeline mantra and it's more of a use-your-own-brains choice
Quote:Anyway PB13 is back up and running, so I probably can't fit any more sandboxing in here for a while...
I think I'll log in shortly there and accidentally exit directly to desktop..