SAT - #2 Pencil only Please

[Sareln]

Micro note; we need to swap from the plains-hill to the plains-wheat next turn. It gets us the worker in the same amount of time, we get +2 commerce for our trouble, and we don't get reamed by overflow round-downs (if we worked the plain-hill all the way through, we'd have an overflow of 2, which would get rounded down to 1. If we only worked one-turn on the wheat, we'd get overflow of 1 rounded to 0!). So we trade 1 overflow hammer for 2 commerce.

[AutomatedTeller]

well, we don't have to worry abotu barbs (barbs are off on this game, right?)

[Sareln]

well, we don't have to worry abotu barbs (barbs are off on this game, right?)

Yeah, barbs are off. It's mostly in case there's a bottom land-bridge that Sian may be looping around.

[AutomatedTeller]

well, it's also possible that everyone connects via land N or S, too - but I think we are good.

Any bets as to cylindrical or toroidal?

[Sareln]

well, it's also possible that everyone connects via land N or S, too - but I think we are good.

Any bets as to cylindrical or toroidal?

No bet, Cylindrical based on the minimap (spot of ice revealed there...)

[Sareln]

So in most of these tests I've been making a couple of macro assumptions that I suppose we should talk about. Currently I've been thinking that the strongest way to get more commerce and therefore help build an era-level advantage over our neighbors is to:

a) ignore early religion, we've got 2 happy resources and our cities won't get to size 6+ very early.
b) ignore metalcasting and the top of the tree until we have Bureaucracy in hand.
c) travel down the writing -> mathematics -> currency -> code of laws post worker-techs b/c it gives us libraries, wealth, trade-routes, and courthouses so that we can keep our foot on the gas.
d) pop a GSci build an academy in our #2 city and then move the capital there so that the 8 palace commerce gets filtered through the academy and then Bureacracy as well.

I think (D) is the place where I'm mostly likely mistaken. If we don't go for the GSci super-early we can push harder growth and then pop the GSci super-fast once we hit Caste w/ CoL since we have several city sites which can run large food surplus (The Whales/Deer/Deer/Sheep site in the north for instance).

Thoughts, AT, Serdoa?

[AutomatedTeller]

As a builder, picking up a religion and monotheism for org religion is nice - org religion gets us a bonus on all buildings and means never having to build a monument - just a missionary - which I like.

That said - getting to monotheism is about as much as getting to math.

I think we should keep it in mind.

[Sareln]

Yeah, the religion & OR is nice, but I'm trying to think of what buildings we're going to be building early game. Pretty much:

Granaries
Libraries
Some Monuments
Maybe a Barracks

And I haven't run into the happy-cap pre-caste anyways, so we can push CON for our religion, and the only city that needs the fast border-pop is Lakhma anyways... Hmm, now that would be a weird play. Can we tech in time to get a religion on Lakhma...

[Sareln]

I am having an amazing birthday party AT, so you should probably play the turn due to inebriation .

Remember to rejigger the tiles worked to get the worker in the same time but with +2 commerce.

-Sareln-

[AutomatedTeller]

Moved SE again, found more wine:

Switched tiles, got demos

Do we got Wheel next?


funny addendum - I've played 2 of the saves. I managed to send on the wrong one this time