Back of the envelope calculations: third library completes eot in capital. Fourth library eot88 in second city. Academy potentially T95. Without Mids, T95: 33 beakers from 8 scientists, but capital unlikely to run 2 scientists, 17bpt from research from Kalamazoo, 11bpt from research from capital, LBJ and MtK. 62 base bpt, 51 base bpt without capital scientists. Fail gold gives minimum 5 turns max research: 500 adjusted beakers.
With Rep, capital is growing, but 3 cities on 6 scientists gives 45 base bpt. Kalamazoo is crippled at size 3 with an empty food box and needs the pig and deer to regrow ZZ plus a farm but can get 11bpt from research from other 3 cities.
And costs are constant: trade routes impact bpt so that might help some more.
Crux: missing Mids is going to suck but we can now get Currency and Sailing via fail gold, so the GNP pit we fell into has been escaped IMO.
With Rep, capital is growing, but 3 cities on 6 scientists gives 45 base bpt. Kalamazoo is crippled at size 3 with an empty food box and needs the pig and deer to regrow ZZ plus a farm but can get 11bpt from research from other 3 cities.
And costs are constant: trade routes impact bpt so that might help some more.
Crux: missing Mids is going to suck but we can now get Currency and Sailing via fail gold, so the GNP pit we fell into has been escaped IMO.