So back to the drawing board we go.
Before I write this turn report, mack, Rusten, I have a question for you both:
Why don't we just finish Masonry and try to build the Mids in city 5? Even if we lose it, and it would take so long to build even if we were to finish it, it will likely fall at a point when we need the fail gold to finish a classical era tech. We don't need more military units (they are already hurting our tech ability, paying 4gpt and finish 3 more units over the next 2 turns), we don't need a barracks, and we can't build anything else. Assuming city 5 kept the pigs and we grew it to size 5, mine 3 plains hills (2 are river) it makes 17 hpt. Mids would take roughly 30 turns and finish around T100 (maybe T98 given hammers accumulated during growth).
Right now it is T61. If we finish Masonry, we complete Masonry eot62, Sailing eot67, then have to save gold and probably can't finish Writing before T77 because we have 2 new cities going down, growing onto cottages and possible just stagnating city 7 on two furs tiles until there is food hooked. If we stop and head straight to Sailing, we get that eot65 and then have to save gold anyway and probably get Writing eot75-ish. I can't gauge how the commerce is going to go, but I don't see it breaching max of 45bpt before T70, and I don't see breakeven going higher than 20bpt before then either. Even if we head straight to Alphabet (current plan) I don't see how we could reach it before Mids likely falls and then the fail gold pushes us along, or it falls after we get to Alphabet but just before we complete Mids, in which case it basically gives us Currency. I'm not really seeing a downside to this plan.
Before I write this turn report, mack, Rusten, I have a question for you both:
Why don't we just finish Masonry and try to build the Mids in city 5? Even if we lose it, and it would take so long to build even if we were to finish it, it will likely fall at a point when we need the fail gold to finish a classical era tech. We don't need more military units (they are already hurting our tech ability, paying 4gpt and finish 3 more units over the next 2 turns), we don't need a barracks, and we can't build anything else. Assuming city 5 kept the pigs and we grew it to size 5, mine 3 plains hills (2 are river) it makes 17 hpt. Mids would take roughly 30 turns and finish around T100 (maybe T98 given hammers accumulated during growth).
Right now it is T61. If we finish Masonry, we complete Masonry eot62, Sailing eot67, then have to save gold and probably can't finish Writing before T77 because we have 2 new cities going down, growing onto cottages and possible just stagnating city 7 on two furs tiles until there is food hooked. If we stop and head straight to Sailing, we get that eot65 and then have to save gold anyway and probably get Writing eot75-ish. I can't gauge how the commerce is going to go, but I don't see it breaching max of 45bpt before T70, and I don't see breakeven going higher than 20bpt before then either. Even if we head straight to Alphabet (current plan) I don't see how we could reach it before Mids likely falls and then the fail gold pushes us along, or it falls after we get to Alphabet but just before we complete Mids, in which case it basically gives us Currency. I'm not really seeing a downside to this plan.