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protest vote: still pining for the days of vanilla - all you needed to research was iron working! then employ lotsa swords as librarians/field researchers.
at medium to sid-ist levels, the concensus seems to be .. research at a minimum 'n buy the rest. i'm still having trouble making that work - my neighbours just never want to sell me things like chivalry - i can't think why...
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Modo44
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in western Poland
Jul 2004
time: 06:35
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If playing peaceful, researching is the option, at least up to Demigod. However, if your strt is food-poor you will be forced to buy your way to tech parity, before research becomes useful (i.e. you can sell whatever technology you research). This is my favourite choice.
If warmongering, you should be able to extort (get techs for peace) most of the time.
In the early game, quick contacts and trading will bring you up to speed. Self-research or extortion are less effective in the Ancient Age (less techs to get, less people to sell to).
In advanced scenarios, or games that lasted until the Industrial Age, stealing might be an option. The higher the difficulty level, the more useful it becomes.
And, there is the Great Library trick. Do not build it, but capture it at some point. This gets you most of the techs researched by all civs at that time. First you need to get to that enemy capital that has it, of course...
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05-04-2005 09:57
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