Preliminary Freight info

[rjmatsleepers]

Originally posted by obiwan18
As for accumulated beakers, all you really need is the beakers to the next tech.

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Check your trade advisor, and this should give you the number of beakers needed for the size of the box, within a few beakers.

You'll then be able to ballpark the number of beakers accumulated by looking at the length, and estimating. Granted, this is not precise, but it's an educated guess.

Another good tip - thanks.

It sounds a bit messy, but presumably you don't need to do it too often - only when you're close to discovering a technology. Most of the time freight deliveries can simply proceed.

RJM at Sleepers

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

The way I do it is set my science at whatever level I like that's about 2-3 turns/tech. Each turn I deliver enough Freight to fill the beaker box. That way I get the new tech from the first city to report next turn, and the rest of my cities fill the beaker box about halfway... then I fill it the rest of the way with Freight... etc. 1 tech per turn is usually enough.

You can get more than 1 tech per turn, but the way to do it is to fill the beaker box via Freight, then have your cities generate enough beakers to get 1 or more techs per turn. Freight can't get you more than 1 tech/turn, but if you have a lot of high beaker producing cities, you can get 2 or even 3 (so I've heard) per turn from city beaker production.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm currently running a 254 city game. I can sustain 2 techs/turn which will be increasing as I deliver freights.

This is with 20 percent science, mind you. Freights will be more for cranking up taxes and allowing me to lower luxuries from 50 percent to keep my cities celebrating.