We need to make our tech path decision soon.
I'm actually pretty sanguine about dtay's military techs, his primary target has to be Krovice, as he doesn't have the Galleys to hit us with a decent force, he wouldn't get much benefit if he did and getting Astronomy is only going to hurt him. If he was heading towards steel instead of Cavalry I'd fear the Ironclads, but he's a long way from that (10-15 turns at a guess).
BGN is pretty busy with his various neighbours, and if he wanted to hit us it would just be our new cities which wouldn't really hurt too bad.
Pindicator will be busy eating Cynheard for the next ten to fifteen turns at which point we may need to worry a little, although not too much, because his coastal cities aren't production powerhouses (and the new ones - which will be - are going to be in revolt for at least ten turns yet).
With our current EP knowledge advantage I think it would be a bit of a waste to go defensive, we should get enough warning of ill intentions from our neighbours that I think we can risk a Democracy push. If we make sure we've banked all the cash we need for it before we start then we can get Gunpowder, Astronomy and Chemistry fairly quickly...
The best reason against I can see would be if BGN has got Constitution already (Edit: He hasn't). I think he's got Nationalism, Paper, Banking, Education and Economics. He's been saving cash on Printing Press for ages, so I think we can beat him to Democracy (Edit: he has 4500 gold, so we're pretty even if he is going for it
). Hopefully if we get there first that'll put others off competing for the wonder 
. I haven't seen any Great Engineers born recently, but I need to have a look back through the log. (Edit: Tesla got born in a far away land last turn 
- does that mean it's in a civ we haven't yet met (Zanth or Q) or in a city we haven't uncovered? If it's the latter then Boldly could have got him .)
I'm actually pretty sanguine about dtay's military techs, his primary target has to be Krovice, as he doesn't have the Galleys to hit us with a decent force, he wouldn't get much benefit if he did and getting Astronomy is only going to hurt him. If he was heading towards steel instead of Cavalry I'd fear the Ironclads, but he's a long way from that (10-15 turns at a guess).
BGN is pretty busy with his various neighbours, and if he wanted to hit us it would just be our new cities which wouldn't really hurt too bad.
Pindicator will be busy eating Cynheard for the next ten to fifteen turns at which point we may need to worry a little, although not too much, because his coastal cities aren't production powerhouses (and the new ones - which will be - are going to be in revolt for at least ten turns yet).
With our current EP knowledge advantage I think it would be a bit of a waste to go defensive, we should get enough warning of ill intentions from our neighbours that I think we can risk a Democracy push. If we make sure we've banked all the cash we need for it before we start then we can get Gunpowder, Astronomy and Chemistry fairly quickly...
The best reason against I can see would be if BGN has got Constitution already (Edit: He hasn't). I think he's got Nationalism, Paper, Banking, Education and Economics. He's been saving cash on Printing Press for ages, so I think we can beat him to Democracy (Edit: he has 4500 gold, so we're pretty even if he is going for it
). Hopefully if we get there first that'll put others off competing for the wonder . I haven't seen any Great Engineers born recently, but I need to have a look back through the log. (Edit: Tesla got born in a far away land last turn - does that mean it's in a civ we haven't yet met (Zanth or Q) or in a city we haven't uncovered? If it's the latter then Boldly could have got him .)
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
In progress: Rimworld
In progress: Rimworld