Welcome back MB!
Concerning the gold site:
I was actually going to argue settling the gold tile first. We can work the gold tile while slow building a monument.
Here's why:
- Our tech is going to suck, even after/if we discover pottery
- By the time we settle the horses, we won't even be able to build chariots, because we haven't discovered The Wheel yet.
- Settling the gold tile first will practically double our research rate. Upkeep wise, it is only 5 tiles from the capital (5.5 actually, rounded down). Our preferred horse site is 7 tiles from the capital (diagonal moves count for 1.5 distance)
- By the time we finish Bronze Working, DIM will have reached 100 culture and popped its border a second time, connecting our cities for another 2 free commerce
- Here's a simulation after we finish the settler
T39 finish settler, start worker
T44 finish worker
T45-46 Bronze working comes in
T48 finish warrior #4, start settler (with some micromanagement we can finish the warrior exactly with growing to size 4)
T54 finish settler #2 (with 2 forest chops) -> worker
anarchy 1 turn -> slavery
This means the settler finishes in time for the wheel so we can mass produce some chariots (it'd have to be in horse city, because we're going to need 10 worker turns, or 5 roads to connect it with the capital)
- the ultimate reason I'd like to go for this site first, is that I would really like to land Judaism, for happiness and culture, and I believe the only way we can do that is by increasing our research rate and maybe even skip Pottery until after Monotheism. (I'd even skip the Wheel if we get Copper on a river)
- skip those cheap granaries you say? Madness!! Our cities are capped at 4, 5 as soon as we get the gold connected, and DIM pops its border. This means that even if we slave, we don't want our cities to grow back too fast because they'll grow themselves into unhappiness
- going for this site first has one condition, and that's we get an agreement with A4 on preferred sites. If we can establish our future borders, there's no need to grab those sites west asap, because we're sure they won't be taken in the near future
Anyway that's what I wanted to discuss with you guys...
Thoughts?
Concerning the gold site:
I was actually going to argue settling the gold tile first. We can work the gold tile while slow building a monument.
Here's why:
- Our tech is going to suck, even after/if we discover pottery
- By the time we settle the horses, we won't even be able to build chariots, because we haven't discovered The Wheel yet.
- Settling the gold tile first will practically double our research rate. Upkeep wise, it is only 5 tiles from the capital (5.5 actually, rounded down). Our preferred horse site is 7 tiles from the capital (diagonal moves count for 1.5 distance)
- By the time we finish Bronze Working, DIM will have reached 100 culture and popped its border a second time, connecting our cities for another 2 free commerce
- Here's a simulation after we finish the settler
T39 finish settler, start worker
T44 finish worker
T45-46 Bronze working comes in
T48 finish warrior #4, start settler (with some micromanagement we can finish the warrior exactly with growing to size 4)
T54 finish settler #2 (with 2 forest chops) -> worker
anarchy 1 turn -> slavery
This means the settler finishes in time for the wheel so we can mass produce some chariots (it'd have to be in horse city, because we're going to need 10 worker turns, or 5 roads to connect it with the capital)
- the ultimate reason I'd like to go for this site first, is that I would really like to land Judaism, for happiness and culture, and I believe the only way we can do that is by increasing our research rate and maybe even skip Pottery until after Monotheism. (I'd even skip the Wheel if we get Copper on a river)
- skip those cheap granaries you say? Madness!! Our cities are capped at 4, 5 as soon as we get the gold connected, and DIM pops its border. This means that even if we slave, we don't want our cities to grow back too fast because they'll grow themselves into unhappiness
- going for this site first has one condition, and that's we get an agreement with A4 on preferred sites. If we can establish our future borders, there's no need to grab those sites west asap, because we're sure they won't be taken in the near future
Anyway that's what I wanted to discuss with you guys...
Thoughts?