Tale of the Years 725 BC to 450 BC

[cavebear]

Heartland:

[cavebear]

SouthEast:

[cavebear]

South:

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Game file being mailed to Ministers now...

[shade]

Re: Tale of the Years 725 BC to 450 BC

Originally posted by cavebear
675 BC Pop Hut – MYSTICISM.
650 BC Pop Hut – PHILOSOPHY!
625 BC – A Glorious Age of Philosophy has begun! We are evidently contemplative conquerors. We discover Polytheism
575 BC Pop Hut – MEDICINE.
575 BC Pop Hut – UNIVERSITY.

5 techs caused by huts...One would start to think of abolishing scientists

seems like our luck just turned...

LONG LIVE OUR KING
(and his millitary advisor )

Shade

[cavebear]

I'd almost rather be getting gold from the huts at this point. Adjusting our tax rate to max gold does not gain us much. Maybe we should consider a high luxury rate... Even at 70% (max) our tech reasearch rate is horrible!

[shade]

a few notes after taking a look at the just posted maps:

1) this map deffinatly is strange
2) we seem to have uncovered a big chunk of it unless it is enormously wide ... Where the hell is everybody hiding? (are we playing 7 civ?)
3) Pestilence ??? ... just love it (Now we still need War, Famine, and Death to make this Apocalypse real )

Shade
PS the idea of abolishing scientists: that was a joke please noone take this serious we really need them

[mrboo123]

Nice jod with huts!

[cavebear]

Originally posted by shade
a few notes after taking a look at the just posted maps:

1) this map deffinatly is strange
2) we seem to have uncovered a big chunk of it unless it is enormously wide ... Where the hell is everybody hiding? (are we playing 7 civ?)
3) Pestilence ??? ... just love it (Now we still need War, Famine, and Death to make this Apocalypse real )

Shade
PS the idea of abolishing scientists: that was a joke please noone take this serious we really need them

1. It is definately a strange map. Very artificial and designed to cause problems in establishing cities and moving units.

2. It is a wide map, I think. The "world" map I displayed is just the part we have explored. The whole map is larger East and West. I get the impression we have only explored about 1/4 the width.

3. Glad you liked the name of the city. War, Famine, and Death sound like good names for the next several cities we establish or conquer. There was some early discussion about city names being "dangerous" and I am trying to follow that idea. I have "Plague" on my list of good names, but using the "4 horsemen" is a good one.

[Sparrowhawk]

It seems as though much progress was made. Well done. All ministers and citizens should be pleased, perhaps with the exception of our foreign minister, who seems to be advising with no one listening. (Oh well, who needs embassies with civilizations that will soon be destroyed )

One question though: The summary seems fairly all inclusive, yet you do not tell us when the other cities were founded. Was this an oversight?

I also like the themed city names btw

[cavebear]

I mentioned that in 550 BC we estsblished the science city of Newton. Did you have concerns in mind?

[Ben Kenobi]

PS the idea of abolishing scientists: that was a joke please no one take this serious we really need them.

Why?

Once we get crusaders, we should shift to a tax regime and crank out troops and improvements.

Right now, we are almost at the break-even point with regards to tax.



We are only making one tax per turn. We need to increase our trade rate, and to do so, we need cash before science.

Also, look at our technologies, what important unit or technology are we missing? Fundamentalism?

We only need Monotheism and Conscription.
Conscription requires Gunpowder and Democracy.
Democracy requires Banking and Republic
Banking requires Trade and University
Gunpowder requires Invention and Iron Working

Invention requires Literacy and Engineering

So the techs we need for Fundamentalism are:

Monotheism,
Banking,
Engineering, Invention

We would need to research
Democracy-Gunpowder-Conscription-Fundamentalism.

Four techs, that's all, depending on the hut luck.
Let's hope we get Monotheism and Banking before Invention.

[atawa]

The hutgods have done us well

I disagree with getting any defensive tech, as we are on the offensive we dont want to take the chance of other civs stealing it and making our attacking units obsolete

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

How did Newton get to the top of the city list?

[H Tower]

Originally posted by cavebear
I mentioned that in 550 BC we estsblished the science city of Newton. Did you have concerns in mind?

I think he's refering to the city of Pestilence