Science poll : should we beeline for a Government Tech ?

[lmtoops]

Tiberius and Vondrack,
I believe you are on the right track. I would vote for your suggested techs and for "guaranteed" trades.

[Jack_www]

Nuts I did not get to vote, but I think bee lining for government tech is a misstake.

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Jack_www
Nuts I did not get to vote, but I think bee lining for government tech is a misstake.

Don't worry, Jack... The poll was closed weeks ago. Spiffor just bumped the thread up, because it is a fine place to discuss our future research strategy, especially with respect to the gov tech beelining.

BTW, Spiffor, I believe it would be just the right time to either make a ministerial decision on our next research goal, seeing what the team response is, or post a poll. Pottery is just two turns away and turns are taking circa 40 hours each now.

[Jack_www]

Oh yeah and anther thing. We are losing money know because of the Settler we built. I was wondering after we get pottery do you guys want to change tax rate to avoid going into red untill we get the second City??

[Tiberius]

I think changing the tax rate now would affect the research time for Pottery (at least it would have done it one turn ago). The max. time we have to go in red is 2 turns; after tge discovery of Pottery we can change the tax slider to 80% to avoid losing money.

[vondrack]

No need to worry about the budget. As soon as we found the second city, we will be back in black numbers again, since the settler will stop cosuming 1 gpt and the new city may even contribute to our gold income. Next turn, check the research slider, but unless it can be lowered a notch without delaying the discovery of Pottery, leave it as it is.

[Spiffor]

What Vondrack said.

As for the decision of next tech : Writing, except if it creates too much uproar in the team. Sliders at 100% once we begin to research writing.

Iron Working and The Wheel have been discarded because :
- GoW might want to trade these with us
- The locations for city #2 and city #3 are pretty much given, whether there are resources nearby or not.

- Mysticism has been discarded because getting monarchy doesn't seem to be our top priority right now

- Writing has been kept because of the numerous advantages it provides : access to mapmaking and to literature, ability to make embassies and to trade contacts. Also, since we're the only commercial Civ around, we might be the first ones with writing.

[vondrack]

Wow! I just hope this trend lasts... this is already the second ministerial order today!

Spiffor, be so kind and put it into the Ministerial Orders thread, so that Tibi can easily grab it and put into the Guidelines thread.

Well, I know, it is bureaucracy... but still, we need to follow some sort of a system. Otherwise, it may be difficult for Jack to play the turn if he is in a hurry and has not enough time to read through all the threads we use for discussion.