(January 23rd, 2015, 19:41)Old Harry Wrote: In fact there are five more iceball sites along the bottom of the map that share a food with an existing city - such as Kipple and Ursula here. Tempted?
Somewhat. According to my quick calculations a new size 1 city increases our civic upkeep costs by ~4 gold (40 % inflation included, currently 32 %). Our ice ball city Kipply has a maintenance cost of -10. If we assume that as a baseline the total cost increase is about 14 gpt.
On the profit side new cities will make 15 commerce from trade routes, 4 from city tile + coast and 1 gold from wealth = total of 20 commerce/gold per turn at size 1.
So basically those cities are worth 6 gold per turn for us. We are IMP so we can get easily produce necessary settlers pretty easily and those investments are ok if there isn't anything more valuable that we can produce.
Quote:West point completes this turn - after which do we build 16XP Rifles or 18XP Cavalry?
I say cavs for the next 4 turns, but once we switch into Theocracy (I assume at the end of GA), we should switch into rifles. How do you see it?
Quote:Rifling comes in with room to spare at 50% science. Should we save up some cash before going for Steam Power?
I don't think we are going to get any known-tech bonus for Steam Power so there is no reason to go binary because of that, but overall it's good if we have some money to spare. However, couple things to note:
- I would like us not to show our opponents our max gpt (+2275 now during the GA), so from now on we could save money with 10/20 % research?
- Wall Street will be finished in 4 turns, at that point we should have used all our cash if we want to optimize.
BGN is now at 61 cities, after he has eaten Nakor + Q he has 64. We have 52, I'm feeling more and more like we need a bit more land so that we can remain competitive until the end. Even if we weren't planning an invasion we should increase our military strength for defensive reasons. Hopefully defending isn't needed and our border situation with BGN and dtay is comfortable enough and those units can be used for eating Dreylin/pindi.
I have some things that I need to raise reg our health situation and foreign trades, but they are not urgent + I'm a bit tired :P