Turn 68, 1325 BC

[nbarclay]

To be edited by the leaders of the Scholia.

Status:
- Research idling at 0% investment (technically on Philosophy). May get to start Republic this turn.
- 382 gold cash (including GoW's 100 surity), about +32 per turn if we don't start researching.

Urgent questions:
- What do we want to build in Tempest? (Currently set on a worker, but we could still change this turn or next.)
- How do we want to respond to Vox's request for gold?

Military:
- New settler in Cyclone moves 2-1 toward the site of the future city of ??? (Typhoon, maybe?)

Economy:
- If Vox delivers Philosophy this turn, set research to Republic at 100%.
- EotS finishes worker, starts another worker.
- Cyclone finishes settler, starts another settler.
- New worker in EotS moves 3.
- Rearrange EotS and Hurricane so Hurricane has all four irrigated furs and EotS works three flood plains and the mined grassland. (We're about to grow EotS half a pop point building a 3-tuirn worker, if that's okay with everyone, so EotS can afford to let Hurricane have the good tiles while we're doing that.)
- Worker on the horse tile finishes road, moves 7.
- Move Bolderburg's laborer currently on the unimproved grassland to the plains we're about to finish irrigating.
- Rearrange Tempest's laborers to work two flood plains.
- Make sure Cyclone is working the irrigated game, the mined wheat, and two roaded grasslands with shield.


Diplomacy:
- May have some residual communications with GoW to take care of.
- Need to address Vox's request for gold to buy Map Making from GoW.
- Need tell Vox what to research next.

[Aeson]

We can squeeze out an extra commerce by moving one of Cyclone's shielded grassland laborers (3) to tile 1 (where the road will be completed the next turn), opening up a roaded one for Tornado's new laborer to be born on.

Then on 1300BC (think 1275BC works too, but there isn't any difference between the two) we switch Tornado's shielded grassland laborer up to 89 to open the tile 3 from Cyclone for it's new laborer to be born on.

[nbarclay]

Do you know whether you get commerce from a new laborer the turn he's born?

[Aeson]

I double checked and you do. There is a thread about the turn order in the Strat forum. And here it is.

[alva]

Aha, again we learn something new .
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[nbarclay]

The way I read the tail end of the thread, it looks like commerce comes before growth, which would mean you don't get the gold for the new citizen.

[DeepO]

That's how I read it before, so if you checked this, Aeson, it seems you need to post in the thread to counter this... I also was under the impression that science, and thus commerce was calculated before growth. Maybe I read it wrongly, but 2 people having the same idea certainly means it wasn't too clear before.

DeepO

[nbarclay]

I just ran a test myself and the gold did not show up for the new laborer the turn the laborer appeared.

[zeit]

Check Beta's last note- What do we want Vox to research next?

[DeepO]

construction was being researched by someone else, no? I thought Trip said that before... which leaves either currency or polytheism.... both are fine by me, but most likely the Bobian civs are going for those two as well.

Maybe polytheism is best, as Vox has lousy research, and we need it by the time we get the republic, not 15 turns later. plus, it might open up the possibility of getting the HG afterwards, if someone would be so nice to research monarchy for us.

DeepO

[Shiber]

I agree with DeepO. Let Vox research the technology that their low science rate can still provide at a reasonable time.

[alva]

Why do we need monarchy?

[Shiber]

In case we decide to build the Hanging Gardens.
First we gotta finish the Great Pyramids, though. Not that I'm against drooling over the possibility of building two ancient age wonders in Hurricane, I just think that planning so much ahead is pointless (though fun! ).

[alva]

Monarch is very low on my list though.
Something that is a nice bonus when signing a peace treaty, but I hardly want to see us spending either research or gold on it.

There are better wonders coming up, no need for the hanging gardens.

[Arrian]

alva,

We still need polytheism to get out of the ancient era. It's gotta get researched by someone. Let's have Vox do it.

-Arrian