To reasearch or not to research?

[randommushroom]

SpencerH, for whatever reason, I've never had interest in playing GOTMs, so my case was from my own randomly generated map. I prefer my own self-inflicted sadism versus another's.

[Capt Dizle]

My point, that I have been repeating and being repeatedly ignored , is that you do not have to research to win.

Under 1.17f that is.

Therefore, the game is broken. IMHO.

[AJ Corp. The FAIR]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
My point, that I have been repeating and being repeatedly ignored , is that you do not have to research to win.

Under 1.17f that is.

Therefore, the game is broken. IMHO.

As a matter of fact, researching yourself during ancient and medieval eras is a waste of money and won't help you in anyway.

Who's been able to win emperor/deity whilst mostly researching himself since the latest patch?

On monarch yes, but above?
Quite impossible IMO.

Go for the money and establish yourself as the top civ near the middle/end of industrial era. Then you'll be able to start researching succesfully (maintaining a lead) yourself.

AJ

[Pyrodrew]

The Value of Ancient Techs

In the beginning of the game the AI of the game, the AI highly undervalues techs. This is why you can buy them for pennies & still have enough commerce to do research or luxury if you want. In the late part of the game the AI highly overvalues techs, such as the recent 10000 gold for Republic. You can make a fortune simply selling techs in the late part of the game.

I think what is "broken" is the AI believes it MUST have all technologies that are possible rather than focusing on moving on to more advanced techs. Some find it disturbing that some AI is offering Republic in the Industrial/Modern Ages for 10000 gold... what is worse IMO is that AI may have paid 10000+ gold for Republic the turn before OR refused to advance to the Middle Ages until it had Republic, even tho it planned to continue to use Monarchy.

[lorddread]

Tech or not to Tech

Personnaly I love to tech out. I usally play America and use 3-6 scout to get my first techs. Then I max out my slider bar. (As well as I can).

The reason I tech out is that the game has a built in cheat. To prove this I used the editor and removed all the techs from the AI. I then sold 1 AI iron working. Amazingly enough when I checked the other nations they all had it.

Another reason to tech out is that the game can afford it. I sold 3 techs to France. I pulled in 2,250 gold per turn. Do you think, you as a player could ever afford that?

With the money, I did a quick build on everything I wanted.

[Inverse Icarus]

my entertainment scrollbar never moves from 0. never. not on diety, not ever.

if my people are mad i starve the rioters. how dare they whine.