[SPOILERS] Mardoc's Magical Mystery Tour

[Mardoc]

Wow, this turn speed!

I'd swap them around. Without considering the capital in great depth, the top sizes in the early game can be very marginal to pick up, and I try to go for Exploration right as I want the next city, as I don't think it pays off until you want to lay down to that city. Not many worker turns at your city, but road turns are marginal anyway, and getting out a EC before the settler would be huge, if you can squeeze it.

Up to you, though. That's just my instinct.

Hmm, that's true. With just agri/calendar, we've got only four tiles we can improve. After that we're to forested hills and that sort of thing. Much better to have a fifth citizen as a sage than a fifth and sixth each working a forest. Might change once we have worker tech - but then there's no question we want all the techs, the question now is priority.

Hang on, by third tech do you mean Exp/Myst or just one of the two? If one, equation becomes harder - Exploration wanted for road-speed, myst wanted for GK revolt.

Only one can be our third tech. The other is probably our fourth, unless there's a reason to make Crafting fourth instead.

That said, I'm not sure what the value is for us in an early GodKing. Slider will be 90 or 100%, we'll be working mainly farms and dyes. There's value if we settle a wane as a GMerchant, but I'd tend to think by the time we want to swap to merchants, we'll also want City States. 20h Elder Council, in our shoes - yeah, I want that. But God King? I don't see it.

Well, I guess it doesn't hurt to revolt into. Will make our forested hill workers somewhat more worth having.

Keep second on hold permanently, actually, as one super-fighter is very handy in a pinch.

Eh? A super fighter is handier than, say, 2 warrior-pults? Cause if he's settled as an Engineer, that's 2 warriorpults in 10 turns, just from the Wane.

The general rule sounds plausible, though. If tech becomes the limiting factor in Titan, then we need to boost tech because it's the bottleneck. So really it comes down to 'wait and see what the barbs look like'. With a side order of 'and how kind the RNG is'.

And hang on, since when is Cotton in BtS?

Since...well, um. I guess maybe it isn't? Not sure how I got that in my head.