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I thought about playing the NIC but it just didn't fit the way I was playing at the time. I'm still trying to figure out how you get fast tech early and sustainably.
I may even attempt it before starting this proposed thread if I have time (I'm writing this with 3 PBEMs in my inbox which I consequently won't be able to play for a 2 or 3 hours.)
Arrian, you may be right about the courthouse. I thought my building them religiously in this game was wrong at first but I don't know now.
I didn't need more horsemen to take down the Indians or Chinese but I did need as many knights as possible as soon as possible. The question is what effect my marketplaces and courthouses had on the knight curve as it were. More gold gave me more knights straight away. More horsemen instead would have given me more knights soon (after I'd waited for more gold arriving slightly more slowly). Then in the long run, marketplaces and couthouses would mean knights being built slightly faster.
I should have built one more earlyish temple for a total of 3 and then some more near the FP while cutting out libraries entirely. But that's only in retrospect. I wasn't aware that I could win this quickly.
Arrian, if this has given up being still addressed to you at this point, I think that you of all people could benefit from being more ruthless on this. All my potentially UP emperor games have started with pure warmongering or REX. If they've become builder games then that tends to start at building libraries everywhere. Temples often get missed out.
In thois game I had 4 or 5 spaced core cities and I only needed 1 early and 1 late temple for expansion. My capital went to size 10 with a despotic luxury rate of 50% at one point. I built my only other temple in it only after building the Pyramids - the other way round would have slowed it down too much.
In the long term as a warmonger you'll have enough luxuries. In that case marketplaces can provide the happiness. Courthouses give you shields and if you need culture marketplaces can give it as well as useful science.
If in this game, there were another continent on a larger map, more courthouses and marketplaces would have paid off even though Knights would have decided the game.
I was going to enter that argument on Domiae's side but he was doing so well that I didn't have any other points to make.
I'll leave when to decide to build a temple or courthouse instead of the default horsemen to the proposed thread. Not only do I not know the entire answer but I have to go now.
I may even attempt it before starting this proposed thread if I have time (I'm writing this with 3 PBEMs in my inbox which I consequently won't be able to play for a 2 or 3 hours.)
Arrian, you may be right about the courthouse. I thought my building them religiously in this game was wrong at first but I don't know now.
I didn't need more horsemen to take down the Indians or Chinese but I did need as many knights as possible as soon as possible. The question is what effect my marketplaces and courthouses had on the knight curve as it were. More gold gave me more knights straight away. More horsemen instead would have given me more knights soon (after I'd waited for more gold arriving slightly more slowly). Then in the long run, marketplaces and couthouses would mean knights being built slightly faster.
I should have built one more earlyish temple for a total of 3 and then some more near the FP while cutting out libraries entirely. But that's only in retrospect. I wasn't aware that I could win this quickly.
Arrian, if this has given up being still addressed to you at this point, I think that you of all people could benefit from being more ruthless on this. All my potentially UP emperor games have started with pure warmongering or REX. If they've become builder games then that tends to start at building libraries everywhere. Temples often get missed out.
In thois game I had 4 or 5 spaced core cities and I only needed 1 early and 1 late temple for expansion. My capital went to size 10 with a despotic luxury rate of 50% at one point. I built my only other temple in it only after building the Pyramids - the other way round would have slowed it down too much.
In the long term as a warmonger you'll have enough luxuries. In that case marketplaces can provide the happiness. Courthouses give you shields and if you need culture marketplaces can give it as well as useful science.
If in this game, there were another continent on a larger map, more courthouses and marketplaces would have paid off even though Knights would have decided the game.
I was going to enter that argument on Domiae's side but he was doing so well that I didn't have any other points to make.
I'll leave when to decide to build a temple or courthouse instead of the default horsemen to the proposed thread. Not only do I not know the entire answer but I have to go now.
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