Area 25: Theology

[vulture]

A voice from outside the democracy game floats in:

What's the state of play with the Sistine chapel? The value of the tech seems to drop when the wonder assosciated with that tech is built (it certainly does in the case of things like e.g. Music theory, which is of no earthly use beyond building Bach's). If the chapel is close to being built somewhere, then it is probably worth waiting until it is built before buying the tech, to keep the price a bit lower.

I'll have to go and check what kind of discount is available in this case.

[Apocalypse]

New information is available.

Also, you are leaving vulture out in the cold.

That isn't good.

[adaMada]

Tricky, Thud, no more thoughts?

I'm not trying to push you, but vulture does await an answer .

-- adaMada

[Apocalypse]

I always tried to answer all questions in Area 25 threads, even if they weren't tech related because everything relates to tech.

[vulture]

I found the time to look things up for myself. No-one appears to be building the Sistine Chapel (I found out where the save was ). And a quick bit of research showed that the change in the cost of theology is negligible when the Sistine Chapel is built. For three techs I give the price before the wonder is built, and then after. Only one of them (music theory) is only of use for building the wonder.

Literature 163 158
Theology 961 954
Music theory 638 9

The change for necessary techs (or ones that have some use aside from the wonder) is tiny, while (as we all know) a tech that is only valuable for the wonder is allows is essentially valueless when that wonder is built.

[Thud]

I think that at this point, as Shiber said, the only reasonable way to get Theology is to go via a peace settlement with Persia. I think that we can gain the upper hand, take a few cities, and they will sue for peace with whatever they have, including Theology and any other techs.

Of course, I think my original choice 4 will have to be implemented in the future, beyond our current set of wars, and to a lesser, more gradual degree. As you can see from Vulture's list, the difference between the cost for literature and the cost of theology is most significant, and this situation is only going from bad to worse.