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Old 13-06-2007, 10:08   #53
Kemal
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Small update again, there has not been much military action lately despite the success of the campaign vs BCLG earlier. There had been some ideas in a preliminary phase to invade Matrix, but those have been put on hold for now again. I suppose some info on the "whys" and "whens" might be in order.

First of all, beaker production has been soaring lately which has translated into reaching the next age in the latest turn, 1270 AD, via the invention of Steam Power:


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This rise in scientific production comes from the fact that I've been focusing on domestic builds and city growth again for the last 10 turns or so, utilizing slavery and organized religion again before shifting to free religion and serfdom again 2 turns ago. With the construction of universities in most major cities, stone was reconnected to the empire and another small wonder was started on:


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All this increase in science resulted in the following F2-tally:


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If those fixed costs and beaker output stats are compared to Matrix's income:


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His 80gpt is earning me around 134bpt. Considering the costs of an invasion plus the additional period of resistance and extra upkeep before state property, had lead me to believe that holding off an invasion for now is more beneficial to the empire's economy, while I make a run towards vastly superior equipment to speed up conquest later on.
This btw also means that Matrix, who is buying these techs at 60% cost, actually could be seen as overpaying me regardless of the 40% reduction: for every 1000-beaker tech he pays 600g, which translates into 1005 beakers for me, and that number rises as more observatories and universities are completed.
He pays less, I get more... don't you just love the civ4 economy?

So, the next few turns will be rather uneventful... BCLG has been gifting his last few units to Darkness it seems, making attacking him suicide, so I left a few units wandering in America and blocked most coastal tiles using galleons and caravels, restricting tile usage for them.

Next targets will be Railroad, Assembly line and perhaps Flight.
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