Turn 154
Alfie has 4 Towns, 10 Villages, 1 Hamlet and an unused windmill meaning there is another 14 commerce coming over the next 30 or so turns. Growing our trade routes will get us another +6 thanks to Free Market so that's a possible 119+14+6 = 139 base commerce or 208 with Bureaucracy. Add 12 cash for two merchants + our great merchant. Both Science and Cash multipliers are ~200% right now. They'll go up to 300% with Oxford (a ten turn build) and Wall St. (about 19 turns). That's alright, but we need the rest of the empire to contribute too...
We could complete Compass at 20% or Music at 50% this turn. Gertie is three turns from completing a Grocer, so Compass isn't urgent. I think Music is the better choice for us as we've got so many newly conquered cities that desperately need the culture to pop borders and we'll want Mil Trad fairly soon anyway. After that I think we have two options
- Philosophy, Nationalism, Constitution, Corporation
- Compass, Optics, Astronomy, attack dtay
If we take the first path we can revolt to Rep/Caste/Pacifism in our next GA, Corporation is going to give us at least 150 extra base commerce and if we detour to Democracy we could try for the Statue of Liberty (which would be amazing for our one-continent civ, although where we'd get 1500 hammers (actually 750 hammers with multipliers) from is a tough question). If we take the second path we could slow dtay down somewhat. I'm inclined to do the first, get some great scientists in our golden age and then do the second. That means that dtay can get to steel for Ironclads, making our Astronomy boats less effective... Any thoughts? Perhaps we should skip Music and go straight for Democracy?
Should I wait for you guys to be around for the Green attack or just go ahead and do it now?
Demos and power
Alfie has 4 Towns, 10 Villages, 1 Hamlet and an unused windmill meaning there is another 14 commerce coming over the next 30 or so turns. Growing our trade routes will get us another +6 thanks to Free Market so that's a possible 119+14+6 = 139 base commerce or 208 with Bureaucracy. Add 12 cash for two merchants + our great merchant. Both Science and Cash multipliers are ~200% right now. They'll go up to 300% with Oxford (a ten turn build) and Wall St. (about 19 turns). That's alright, but we need the rest of the empire to contribute too...
We could complete Compass at 20% or Music at 50% this turn. Gertie is three turns from completing a Grocer, so Compass isn't urgent. I think Music is the better choice for us as we've got so many newly conquered cities that desperately need the culture to pop borders and we'll want Mil Trad fairly soon anyway. After that I think we have two options
- Philosophy, Nationalism, Constitution, Corporation
- Compass, Optics, Astronomy, attack dtay
If we take the first path we can revolt to Rep/Caste/Pacifism in our next GA, Corporation is going to give us at least 150 extra base commerce and if we detour to Democracy we could try for the Statue of Liberty (which would be amazing for our one-continent civ, although where we'd get 1500 hammers (actually 750 hammers with multipliers) from is a tough question). If we take the second path we could slow dtay down somewhat. I'm inclined to do the first, get some great scientists in our golden age and then do the second. That means that dtay can get to steel for Ironclads, making our Astronomy boats less effective... Any thoughts? Perhaps we should skip Music and go straight for Democracy?
Should I wait for you guys to be around for the Green attack or just go ahead and do it now?
Demos and power
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
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