[Spoilers] Old Human Tourist: Empress of Azteca

[Fintourist]

Turn 112




GA begins..




Brand new civics.




Not long anymore until we have our Bureaucademy capital..




GA demos.. That #1 MFG is a real monster.. If we turn tech on our GNP is above 500. I think there is a chance that we will surpass the lurker civ during the GA..




And for the first time we have a top5 city

Do you think we'll need an Aqueduct eventually?

Eventually, sure, so yeah, I guess it's a decent idea to build it already a bit in advance. Maybe couple of HAs first though and we wait for Organized Religion? During the GA our capital could 2-turn HAs for a while.

Does Granary->Forge->Lighthouse or Granary->Lighthouse->Forge work better? I'd assume the second without testing. I'm not keen on libraries in places that won't get cottaged for very boring reasons:

If we grow on coast to size 5 we'll be making about 24 commerce (inc trade routes), assuming 50% tech rate a library will be worth 24 * 50% *.25 = 3 beakers a turn.

If hammers are worth about 1.6 commerce (going from Seven's maths from a while ago) those 90 hammers = 150 commerce and it takes 50 turns for the library to pay back at 3 a turn. Even being more generous with what hammers and beakers are worth it's still not a good return. Once the cities are size ten the payback is more like 25 turns, but that'll be a while off...

Right now I think units are going to be more use - we could whip and chop these cities for unpromoted Cats I suppose - so I'm not even sure that Barracks are going to be that useful (oh, perhaps for the culture if any cities get planted before the GA artist border pops).

Yeah, 2nd one is probably better order in most cases. And yup, no reason to push libraries too early (if at all) apart from real commerce cities and our Great Scientist producers.