that's fine by me assuming my preferred option of extending the NAP with france isn't available to us. i think all of us would rather be building settlers + workers rather than military and france is the only threat to midas so we should work towards that.
that being said, i'm on the same page as you ilios re: security. i've said 100x we're a slow burner, if we play smart + conservative we'll come to the fore in the midgame so let's keep it tight for now.
rsch update:
at the moment BW comes in T47, the capital will grow to 4 meaning we get 13 beakers from capital, 8 from midas, so TW comes in @
21 beakers/turn raw
22 beakers/turn (+1 for having a city)
23 beakers/turn (5.3% bonus for meeting 3 civs who have TW)
so we finish it in 5 turns with ~7 beakers to spare.
it's worth checking whether we can finish BW with lots of overflow, we only need 16 beakers to get TW in 4 turns instead of 5 & we'll be putting in 26/turn into BW once the gold mine's done. i'd need to access the game to work it out, specifically how many beakers we have put into BW, what tiles we're working now, and ETA to gold mine being done.
that being said, i'm on the same page as you ilios re: security. i've said 100x we're a slow burner, if we play smart + conservative we'll come to the fore in the midgame so let's keep it tight for now.
rsch update:
at the moment BW comes in T47, the capital will grow to 4 meaning we get 13 beakers from capital, 8 from midas, so TW comes in @
21 beakers/turn raw
22 beakers/turn (+1 for having a city)
23 beakers/turn (5.3% bonus for meeting 3 civs who have TW)
so we finish it in 5 turns with ~7 beakers to spare.
it's worth checking whether we can finish BW with lots of overflow, we only need 16 beakers to get TW in 4 turns instead of 5 & we'll be putting in 26/turn into BW once the gold mine's done. i'd need to access the game to work it out, specifically how many beakers we have put into BW, what tiles we're working now, and ETA to gold mine being done.