Senate Foreign Affairs Cmte.: Buy Steam Power (or Communism) now or later?

[realpolitic]

Wait a minute. What are we doing to develop ToE & Hoover? We should be pre-building them and getting the techs ASAP.

If the timeline for building the <&lt>400 shileds for these 2 are a long time from now, we should be going to plan C, if we techwhore Sanitation, that also deprives the other tech leaders from profiting as much from their future advances.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by joncnunn
Actually, in the above game where I got the massive surplus of cash with 10 cities on Emperor level I'm China. (This game is just about over now.)

You don't get half cost banks or market places for being commerical. In fact, since we are playing 1.21f instead of 1.29f, there is a significant handicap playing Commerical civs.

I got my Forbidden Palace built much earlier in that game than this one (About 35% thru the Middle Ages Techs), which virtually eliminated corrpution & waste from an early date. There is also a lot of river tiles in my territory, with five of those cities along a river and in addition all except two cities are coastal.

The chief advantage of the commercial trait is the enormous reduction in corruption... but yeah, v1.21 does suck for that PTW works perfectly for it, though

[joncnunn]

The two most important prebuilds we need for Hoover Dam & ToE are a Hospital & Factory in the two best city sites, neither of which we have the techs for.

(This is another reason why we should build Hospitals in the size 12 cities ASAP instead of waiting for Colosusems.)