Subsitute Science Minister's report

[ixnay]

As HTower is gone this weekend, he asked me to fill in for him this week. Last term we researched monarchy and we are currently researching writing. Currency->Trade was the second choice in the last poll, so what should we head for after writing?

currency
currency->trade
literacy
masonry
mysticism
pottery
polytheism
warrior code
wheel

-currency:allows construction with masonry, trade, (marketplace)
-literacy: allows great library
-masonry: allows construction with currency, mathamatics (palace, pyramids, great wall, city walls)
-mysticism: allows astronomy with mathematics, philosophy with literacy (oracle)
-polytheism: allows monotheism with literacy, (elephants)
-pottery: allows seafaring, (granary, hanging gardens
-warrior code: allows feudalism with monarchy, iron working, (archers)
-the wheel: allows engineering with construction

Poll closes in 3 days.

[CannonFodder]

GO MYSTICISM!

[mrboo123]

GO POTTERY!

[-Jrabbit]

If we're going for a Rep. govt, we will want to start with HG so we can achieve easy, fast growth as an early Republic. The AI likes it too, so let's

GO POTTERY!

(See john, we don't all disagree with you. At least not all the time )

[-Jrabbit]

Darn system won't let me vote from my home connection for some reason. I'll be back within the 3-day limit to

VOTE POTTERY!

[atawa]

Are you people crazy????

GO TRADE ASAP

[Hydey]

King Hydey votes for TRADE

[shade]

If we want to go for repres.Govs. then we have to bare in mind our "non-exsistent" amount of shields and the always unhappy citizens--> we need happiness-wonders(especially since we are building cities at high speed).
--> GO POTTERY.

Shade

[cavebear]

I agree we are going to need the Happiness Wonders if we are going to choose representative governments. Pottery it is...

[Gramphos]

literacy

[atawa]

As other civ's have with no doubt started on wonders the only way to beat them to the early wonders is to rushbuild them with caravans.

And in rep its much more benificial to have traderoutes in place then it is to have happy wonders.

[cavebear]

I suggest using high value trade goods for overseas routes, and the lesser stuff for the Wonders. OK, so that is pretty obvious. But i think there is value in making sure most of our cities have a trade route with Capitol (when they are large enough that it matters) and that we make it a point to grow Capitol to a size and trade production where that helps them.

It's nice to use Caravans to rushbuild Wonders, but we can have trade routes and *take* some Wonders, too. Let the other civs build them (though there are a couple we should build ourselves to make sure we get them early enough to be useful.

[Hydey]

I would forget about building any of the early wonders, we will have to take the ones we need by force as our slow start has left us to far behind in techs, we will catch up quickly by skillfully using the mighty caravan

King Hydey says rescearch Trade ASAP or else.

[mrboo123]

Wirting, Pottery, trade. In that older, becasue then we can have the CAP. Build it and the other cities build carvans. And gets a ahead start.

[Gelvan]

MASONRY

Building/Having the Pyramids boosts growth! This will ensure good trade routes.