Ok, plan.
Fail gold is going to be 329 gold. Kalamazoo has Mids in the queue and research queued behind it. We can finish Sailing next turn, and with trade routes to both players we should make over 130 base bpt with research builds. Maybe 140, depends on MtK but I need to look at worker micro tomorrow when I have time.
Currency would therefore be a 4 turn tech. We will have gold enough for 6 turns of research. Academy due T95, and the additional trade routes will be worth something in the region of only 10 commerce per turn, but the wealth would be put through 25% modifiers compared to research which isn't. With tech starting T91, that means only 2 turns of research would go through the academy, but as costs are around 50gpt, we can put around 46 got from wealth, so...it doesn't really matter. We rush Currency, expected eot94. And then we wait and see for CoL and Confucianism. With the Academy, I would expect 16bpt jump. CoL is only 562 adjusted beakers. Another 4 turn tech tbh. Otherwise we could get IW in 2, Maths in 3 and Calendar in 4, and hook up the gems, sugar and incense. Staggered growth, too.
I'd still rather have Mids, but this is better than a kick in the teeth.
Fail gold is going to be 329 gold. Kalamazoo has Mids in the queue and research queued behind it. We can finish Sailing next turn, and with trade routes to both players we should make over 130 base bpt with research builds. Maybe 140, depends on MtK but I need to look at worker micro tomorrow when I have time.
Currency would therefore be a 4 turn tech. We will have gold enough for 6 turns of research. Academy due T95, and the additional trade routes will be worth something in the region of only 10 commerce per turn, but the wealth would be put through 25% modifiers compared to research which isn't. With tech starting T91, that means only 2 turns of research would go through the academy, but as costs are around 50gpt, we can put around 46 got from wealth, so...it doesn't really matter. We rush Currency, expected eot94. And then we wait and see for CoL and Confucianism. With the Academy, I would expect 16bpt jump. CoL is only 562 adjusted beakers. Another 4 turn tech tbh. Otherwise we could get IW in 2, Maths in 3 and Calendar in 4, and hook up the gems, sugar and incense. Staggered growth, too.
I'd still rather have Mids, but this is better than a kick in the teeth.