Just checking in to say I'm not dead. I'll try to get some pictures up soon. Here's an overview of what's happening:
*I've swapped into Confucianism and will have ivory next turn. That means +2 happy in most of my cities, or a limit of 9 in my capital and 8 elsewhere. Most of my cities aren't there yet, though Luxor, Wynncore, and Venlazzo are getting close. 5/7 cities have my religion, but The Palms has a monastery online and is working on the two needed missionaries.
*Settling so many cities has started to hurt my research rate, currently only a slight profit at 60%. I've called a moratorium on new cities until it can, hopefully, get to 80%.
*I'm also finishing an axe I have in the pipeline and then stopping building military for a while. I'm top power and have a comfortable margin over my neighbors. Any border city can be covered by multiple modern units with 1t of signs of attack. I couldn't hold versus 10 chariots, but nothing suggests my neighbors are building such stacks. Instead I'm building some libraries, a few more workers, and lighthouses in my coastals.
*The above three points have determined my next tech: Currency. I'm heading to it via binary research, and it should be about 9t more (or 11t overall considering the 2t I've spent stockpiling gold already). Yes my research rate took a hit
*My GProphet is due at 11t.
*I've spotted pindicator's city to my immediate southeast, and I've asked him about borders. Ideally, but without fighting, I'd like to get 2 cities to the east of Wynncore and above his city. Those two, plus one city on my southern coast and one city for the jungle bananas to my northwest would mean 11 peaceful cities. Open question as to whether that will be competitive with what the neighbor killers get.
*I'm #3 in GNP (#2 at 100% science), #8 in production, a very close #2 in food, #1 in power, #2 in land area, and #1 in pop. I don't expect to get passed in (demographic) pop very soon. And thanks to darrell's workers I'm only working 2 unimproved tiles empire wide
*I'll have horses hooked in 3t. Notwithstanding the above I will probably attack Rome if the opportunity presents itself. Meaning if I finish slowbuilding the workers and libraries I'm on now, and if I don't need more units elsewhere, and if Rome's power stays low. That's something to consider in 10t though.
*I've swapped into Confucianism and will have ivory next turn. That means +2 happy in most of my cities, or a limit of 9 in my capital and 8 elsewhere. Most of my cities aren't there yet, though Luxor, Wynncore, and Venlazzo are getting close. 5/7 cities have my religion, but The Palms has a monastery online and is working on the two needed missionaries.
*Settling so many cities has started to hurt my research rate, currently only a slight profit at 60%. I've called a moratorium on new cities until it can, hopefully, get to 80%.
*I'm also finishing an axe I have in the pipeline and then stopping building military for a while. I'm top power and have a comfortable margin over my neighbors. Any border city can be covered by multiple modern units with 1t of signs of attack. I couldn't hold versus 10 chariots, but nothing suggests my neighbors are building such stacks. Instead I'm building some libraries, a few more workers, and lighthouses in my coastals.
*The above three points have determined my next tech: Currency. I'm heading to it via binary research, and it should be about 9t more (or 11t overall considering the 2t I've spent stockpiling gold already). Yes my research rate took a hit
*My GProphet is due at 11t.
*I've spotted pindicator's city to my immediate southeast, and I've asked him about borders. Ideally, but without fighting, I'd like to get 2 cities to the east of Wynncore and above his city. Those two, plus one city on my southern coast and one city for the jungle bananas to my northwest would mean 11 peaceful cities. Open question as to whether that will be competitive with what the neighbor killers get.
*I'm #3 in GNP (#2 at 100% science), #8 in production, a very close #2 in food, #1 in power, #2 in land area, and #1 in pop. I don't expect to get passed in (demographic) pop very soon. And thanks to darrell's workers I'm only working 2 unimproved tiles empire wide
*I'll have horses hooked in 3t. Notwithstanding the above I will probably attack Rome if the opportunity presents itself. Meaning if I finish slowbuilding the workers and libraries I'm on now, and if I don't need more units elsewhere, and if Rome's power stays low. That's something to consider in 10t though.
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is too powerful:
