Turn 59

[binTravkin]

- settled, but forgot to rename the third city, will have to do next turn, no trouble visible from the city, warrior 1 turn away from getting there.
- Writing finished, Alphabet in 15 turns
- one turn of Colossus ran
- chopping started
- scout SW->SE, nothing special uncovered, road looks clean 2 tiles ahead.

No screens this time, was playing on laptop.

[Maniac]

Should we increase our taxes?

Now that we have explored the western coast up to the second Banana city, how about moving south to try and contact Vox? The insistence with which Gathering Storm wants to prevent us contacting them, and the fact that they want us to embargo them may mean Vox may have interesting things to say, and may mean their fall may not yet to be for soon.

Also to get trade going with the Bananas, wouldn't it be faster for them to research Sailing and connect their capital to the nearby river, than to build a road towards us?

[Mart]

Good idea contacting Vox

[binTravkin]

Should we increase our taxes?

You mean lowering science allocation?
We have 39 gold and -3/turn, so we can do like this for some time.


Agreed on contacting Vox, thought it was already decided by starting to move the scout south.


Road will be necessary to us and a blunder for their workforce, so no need to hint them something better..

[Maniac]

Originally posted by binTravkin
You mean lowering science allocation?
We have 39 gold and -3/turn, so we can do like this for some time.

Not for the 15 turns required to research the Alphabet.

[Chaos Theory]

At this point, gold does us nothing but allow us to run deficit research. When it runs out, it runs out, but there's no reason to preserve any.

[Mart]

it's 13 turns, and by then maybe some city gets a pop increase and more gold?

[binTravkin]

I think we'll get it sooner than 15 turns - Library will be done in 10 turns, which is +5/turn additional investment for 3-4 turns for a total of 15-20 beakers and we'll have one cottage growth in 2 turns, which is +1/turn additional investment for some 11-12 turns, which is 11-12 beakers, so in total we should be able to shave at least one turn off that time and by the end of it running 90% science will be more than running 100% now.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Chaos Theory
At this point, gold does us nothing but allow us to run deficit research. When it runs out, it runs out, but there's no reason to preserve any.

Emergency upgrades in case something unexpected happens.

[binTravkin]

Emergency upgrades in case something unexpected happens.

That's wishful thinking.
We are not gonna have the money for emergency upgrades for a looong time, so better not dream about them.

[Mart]

Gold is mainly for city upkeep and research at this point. There are requirements for gold trading - currency?
rushing builds is by slaves now, it may change soonest after getting Pyramids, iirc.
So until then we can balance upkeep and research only
... ah, yes, military. Good point, it may be good to predict what sum of gold we will need for how many units in how many turns.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by binTravkin
That's wishful thinking.
We are not gonna have the money for emergency upgrades for a looong time, so better not dream about them.

We could keep 80 gold for a warrior->axeman upgrade?

[Impaler[WrG]]

Our warrior is experience less so its a big waste to upgrade him. Basicaly converts 80 research in to 10 hammers (ax cost minus warrior cost).
No thankyou

[Maniac]

That's why you only do that in case of an emergency.

[Mart]

maybe after the war starts we can lower the science % to 10 or 20 and have 80-90 % for quick gold gain.
faster alphabet and technology trade will be quite advantageous.