I believe we can settle towards Rome without incurring anger if the city is closer to our capital than theirs. 2S of the cotton would be the place to do it. Although the backyard locations may be better anyway.
You can't know ahead of time, at least not without completely reverse-engineering the tile picker formula. I do know it pretty much always prioritizes 2nd-ring resources over 3rd-ring though. I think it will pick at least the 2nd-ring fish, grassland, and plains, before the 3rd-ring resources. I'm not sure whether it's better to put gold towards these tiles, or save for a worker/settler which are the most efficient buys in the early game.
I think you just can't ever go wrong with Tradition, yeah. If you want the capital to acquire any of those tiles in any reasonable time, it's going to be necessary.
WE ARE NOT RUSHING ROME. We're a hundred turns away from any units with faith and two hundred from an invading army.
I could see this plan: all of Tradition, take Piety + Organized Religion + Mandate of Heaven, then take Honor and Warrior Code when we might be ready to attack somewhere around turns 200-250, then up to Reformation in the industrial age for the Religious Fervor Reformation belief.
Quote:By the way, if we buy the ocean tile, does our next cultural expansion goes for the wheat/deer or would it still prefer the fish? I'm not sure how this works.
You can't know ahead of time, at least not without completely reverse-engineering the tile picker formula. I do know it pretty much always prioritizes 2nd-ring resources over 3rd-ring though. I think it will pick at least the 2nd-ring fish, grassland, and plains, before the 3rd-ring resources. I'm not sure whether it's better to put gold towards these tiles, or save for a worker/settler which are the most efficient buys in the early game.
I think you just can't ever go wrong with Tradition, yeah. If you want the capital to acquire any of those tiles in any reasonable time, it's going to be necessary.
WE ARE NOT RUSHING ROME. We're a hundred turns away from any units with faith and two hundred from an invading army.
I could see this plan: all of Tradition, take Piety + Organized Religion + Mandate of Heaven, then take Honor and Warrior Code when we might be ready to attack somewhere around turns 200-250, then up to Reformation in the industrial age for the Religious Fervor Reformation belief.