[SPOILERS] TT tries yet again to not be terrible

[Twinkletoes89]

I'm not sure and I am a little concerned about delaying now that the settler has been whipped as that city probably could have waited a while for it.

We could look at going for Monotheism next instead? We could get a second religion which isn't awful and could pop borders of third city, but as we are Spiritual and we have hinduism in the city we want to build the pyramids in, we could swap straight to Organised Religion and use that bonus to build it faster?

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yeah ok, OR would help too, and if thats quicker than maths that might be a better play. ANd I guess we just need one tech for that? Yeah we should do OR after pottery then.

[Twinkletoes89]

Yeah we can get Mono straight away as we have researched Polytheism and Masonry already

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Yeah we can get Mono straight away as we have researched Polytheism and Masonry already

yeah, since we're spi and can convert right away it would be plain silly not to get mono next and switch to OR. If we can found jews in the stone city for a free pop that would be great, but I really don't care that much if we even found it - OR will be very strong .

[Twinkletoes89]

Stone will be fully hooked up next turn.

Monotheism due in 8 turns - fitting in a quick 5 turn granary in Success Kid while we wait and I do some pre-chopping.

Hinduism spread naturally to the capital which is nice!

Building granaries in our other two cities too at a pretty fast pace. Thought it best to do it first in the first city rather than potentially waste hammers on building a monument with the possible founding of Judaism soon

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yeah no reason for a monument, the stone is first ring and it will get religion eventually even if we don't found judaism there.

how long until the stone is hooked up? i'd go ahead and start the pyramids immediately after the granary, don't wait for OR.. wait for OR before you start chopping of course .

[Twinkletoes89]

Stone hooked up now and we have also had a lucky free spread of Hinduism into our stone city (all 3 cities now have our state religion - yay!) so even if we miss out on Judaism, we're still fine for culture.

Couple more turns for Success Kid to get up to size 4 and then we can turn on full production with 2 grass mines, copper mine and use the wet corn to support it.

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logged in today. demos look bad, lol, but thats a function of not bothering with cottages and putting a lot into the pyramids - everything will get much better, I think, once we build them.

I think next turn business cat should start pumping out military, so the capital can build a settler once it reaches happy cap and completes its granary.

Don't wait for OR to star the pyramids, of course, but do wait for OR to chop . I would suggest one of the finished workers start a mine-chop on one of the forested hills, maybe, if you haven't prechopped them both. when we reach level 5 we may want to take a citizen off the pigs or grains to work 4 mines, so that will be useful (and since we're still 5 turns away from OR, mine chop will be ok).

[Twinkletoes89]

We'll be alright.

Granary finishes in SK this turn and we are now working our first riverside cottage at the capital.

Things will pick up (hopefully)

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for lurkers:

pyramids start next turn in success kid. currently 25 turns to go, but that will be cut down considerably w/ OR and chops. I'd say we'll have it in 10 turns, if not sooner.

also, I noticed this:

that city is quite a distance from his capital - I think he's missing copper and wanted to be sure to claim those horses.
Which is unfortunate, as thats the only source of horses I can see. lucky we have 3 sources of copper.

anyway I think we need to get another settler out asap. I would say whip the granary in the capital(maybe), grow up to size 5 and pump out a settler there, maybe 2. we'll have +3 happy in 5 cities soon, so why not get 5 high food cities asap .

also, 2metra has writing, I don't see the harm in asking him for open borders for better trade routes. we might need to send a warrior over there to scout him out a bit first, I guess (once we have more copper units for defense).