PB77 - Bing Bong

[BING_XI_LAO]

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[Commodore]

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Do you still want me as a dedlurker, Bing? I can try and be on regularly to discuss things.

[BING_XI_LAO]

Do you still want me as a dedlurker, Bing? I can try and be on regularly to discuss things.

Yeah, sure! I am on discord for the most part, but if you aren't here is good to. Thanks for the offer

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I just rejoined the realms beyond discord.

Any plan you are aiming for with America? The UB is pretty flexible.

[BING_XI_LAO]

I didn't realise it was "flexible", so I was thinking Philosophical, maybe with Creative. What else could one do with it?

[Mjmd]

I was also very curious what the plan for America is. I also am on record that I believe it to be very flexible.

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I didn't realise it was "flexible", so I was thinking Philosophical, maybe with Creative. What else could one do with it?

The opportunity cost of building the library is not that high, and it lets you do a lot of early game GP tricks.

Consider that for a lot of civs in a lot of games, the first great person you get is going to be by building a library anyway in a high food city and then running two scientists. The only other useful way to get a great person early is through passive wonder GP generation, like a stonehenge prophet or the pyramids engineer. The American library is like a wonder you can put in any city, and you get to pick the great person that comes out. Want your first person to be a merchant? Build the library, let the GP bar fill almost all the way, then make sure it has a market ready for a merchant before it pops out. Or you can slot in a temple for a guaranteed prophet, or a forge for a guaranteed medieval engineer for whatever wonder you want. You can use philosophical to get that 'free' great person out faster, or creative so that a bunch of cities can get a lower cost GP out, but neither is necessary to use the library to enable these kinds of strategies. But it does take micro and having a good sense for what GP bulbs are useful, which I am not the best at.

[BING_XI_LAO]

I'm in the mood to play PHI-CRE anyway, even though it's not at all necessary for use of the library UB.
What happens if the bar fills up with no specific GP points?

[Thoth]

What happens if the bar fills up with no specific GP points?

You get a random GP.