Lazy Horse stays in monarchy too long

[SlowwHand]

No. It's a painintheass on Deity. King, all is well.

[Alexander's Horse]

One reason I stay in Deity is to make my turns shorter - I'm always thinking of my playing partners

[SlowwHand]

You need to remove that sig line Horsey.

[Frank Johnson]

The only problem I can think of about going straight to republic is having the cities and infastructure ready to take advantage of WPTPD. I mean assuming you run straight to republic, and avoid monarchy and get republic very early, how often do you have 7 cities with roads and irrigation ready to go? I guess it depends.......

[DrSpike]

That's just it you dont. Upon hitting rep you can use 40% lux and keep size 2's content up to 8 cities and have temples in some core cities. You might be able to wtlkd a couple early on, but very few. Expansion is slow, future temple building is slow.

In 3 or 4 player games I usually go Monarchy and build at least 12 cities before switching. In duels even later. But as I said before it's generally good players that do the straight rep. thing, so there's probably something to it. Even in duels I've seen very early republics from some great players.

[markusf]

Originally posted by Frank Johnson
The only problem I can think of about going straight to republic is having the cities and infastructure ready to take advantage of WPTPD. I mean assuming you run straight to republic, and avoid monarchy and get republic very early, how often do you have 7 cities with roads and irrigation ready to go? I guess it depends.......

A few weeks ago i built 3 wonders before 1000 bc on 1x 1x diety.. With no help from huts or others.

If you want to build huge amounts of wonders before 1ad go monarchy. If you want to gain a huge tech lead + gold go republic.