I'm not 100 % sure about the pacifism. I think it's time to make the GP plan "for the rest of the game" and see how many GPs and what kind of types do we actually need. If we decide that we don't go for a 4th GA in this game and plan to save our 3rd GA for a possible space race we are not in such a huge hurry to produce so many Great Persons. I haven't considered Uni Suffrage yet, but I assumed that we will end up in Caste/Rep so leaving couple cities for specialist duty after our Golden Age should be totally ok.
Sure bulbs and merchants missions are still ok plays, but at this point their cost is getting GPP-wise kind of big as after corporation a GS bulb is worth roughly one turn of break-even research --> That's still a respectable chunk of beakers, but if we need to sacrifice a lot to to produce an extra Great Person or get the first-to-bonus from Physics I'm not sure we want do it.
Btw reg whipping, remember to complete possible Missionary builds extra early before we give up OR and switch into Pacifism/Theocracy.
If I keep thinking out loud:
- We could go forward with a plan that aims at producing still 4 Great Persons in this game. Preliminary 3 (artist,scientist,merchant) for our 3rd GA and one scientist or merchant for a bulb/mission. However, if we happen to win a Communism Great Spy, we launch our 3rd GA early and use it to produce 2 additional Great Persons and leave us with 4 GPs for a possible space race (artist,scientist,merchant,spy). Our empire is getting big enough that even a 4-man GA starts to sound somewhat attractive in my ears, but for that we need to generate/get somehow a prophet, engineer or a spy.
Sure bulbs and merchants missions are still ok plays, but at this point their cost is getting GPP-wise kind of big as after corporation a GS bulb is worth roughly one turn of break-even research --> That's still a respectable chunk of beakers, but if we need to sacrifice a lot to to produce an extra Great Person or get the first-to-bonus from Physics I'm not sure we want do it.
Btw reg whipping, remember to complete possible Missionary builds extra early before we give up OR and switch into Pacifism/Theocracy.
If I keep thinking out loud:
- We could go forward with a plan that aims at producing still 4 Great Persons in this game. Preliminary 3 (artist,scientist,merchant) for our 3rd GA and one scientist or merchant for a bulb/mission. However, if we happen to win a Communism Great Spy, we launch our 3rd GA early and use it to produce 2 additional Great Persons and leave us with 4 GPs for a possible space race (artist,scientist,merchant,spy). Our empire is getting big enough that even a 4-man GA starts to sound somewhat attractive in my ears, but for that we need to generate/get somehow a prophet, engineer or a spy.