[SPOILERS]"These boots are made for stompin"-Thoth tries to remember how to play BTS

[Thoth]

So it looks like we're still playing this thing after all.

t84 done:

I think my gives-a-shit-omeeter reading is a bit low.  I'd forgotten the Great Library was due this turn.     





Tech back on next turn once Academy is built in Sex Dwarf.

I forgot to look at the demographics screen but I can't be arsed to open the save back up to look.

[Krill]

Why isn't everyone dead yet?

[Thoth]

Why isn't everyone dead yet?

Still kneed knigs.


Alhazard built Colossus.

Academy done.  ~200bpt at max tech.  -120 gpt at max tech sans wealth builds.

[Thoth]

Tech picture is ugly:




But Moai in GA is looking very nice:




Capital is also looking nice:




top 5 cities:





Creative + build culture lets me do really fucking annoying things with my border culture:




I had wanted Scum to be east of it's actual location but Old Harry had his settler incoming and I didn't have a choice.  If I had tried to settle 1e he would have seen my settler and could have planted to prevent me from settling.  So I built culture to the second border pop.  

Border culture is going to get even more fun once I get a few monastaries and temples whipped out.

[Thoth]

2 turns in one day!

Guess I'm not the only one who's been having fun with their golden age.

[Thoth]

I have an Interesting Choice to make next turn.

I can either 2t Economics or 1t Philo to set up a Liberalism push.

Khan can tech both Lib and Economics and just finished teching Gunpowder, meaning he can Lib Rifling if he goes there next.

Problem ofc, is that he's been outspending me on EPs and can see my tech in progress. His safe play if he wants both goodies is to put 1t into Economics on his next turn and then wait to see what
I tech. If I start Economics, he finishes it. If I tech Philo, he leaves Eco with 1 turn to go and starts into Lib 1t ahead of me.

Think I'll aim for Economics and hope Auro techs Philo to put pressure on Khan to finish up Lib.

Then Gunpowder, Printing Press, Philo, Nat, Constitution....stuff.

I have a Great Artist on hand (could bulb 850 beakers into Divine Right, which is tempting) and a mongrel GP due in roughly 8 turns to make 3 for another GA if I can bag the Eco merchant.

[Krill]

Do you have a cheap tech to set up overflow to 1 turn an important tech?

[Thoth]

No, unfortunately.

But i think I'll put in a minimal amount of beakers next turn and either change tacks or complete the tech on the following turn, building wealth and research as needed.

Still going around and around on teching DR and building the SM. It's worth ~60-70 gold per turn (after multipliers). But 1200 beakers for the tech and another 370 hammers for the wonder
makes it a longish payback time. If I can bag the Eco merchant then I'll almost certainly skip DR but if I miss it, bulbing most of DR and nabbing SM is going to be tempting.

[Thoth]

Heh. So it was a moot point. Khan grabbed economic before I could put any beakers into it. So collected gold for 1t on philosophy. Tech next turn ( last turn of GA #2) and revolt into Merc and Theo.

[Thoth]

Interesting times......Auro burnt one of Khan's cities last turn.