Why great library is so hard
Why great library is so hard
I play with 2.4.3 with easy AIs, but I found the Great Library is very hard to get, when I started to study Literature, the AIs had already started to vuild the Great Library, it is too hard.
Re: Why great library is so hard
You can start another wonder and switch to the GL when you know the tech.
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I went directly from Alphabet to Code of Laws and Writing (and Bronze Working ),then to Literacy, and I found AI is 15turns ahead before to complete Literacy to start to build the Great Library, how to solve?
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Great Library is a Must Have wonder for me. I get Trade early, and then my cities can work on Caravans while I research Literacy. After I build essential settlers, I also enable the Govenor to Max Science in cities larger than 1. That reduces the city rate of growth, but it also spikes my science progress to get Trade sooner. Then I usually disable all the Govenors to resume normal growth with normal science.
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Re: Why great library is so hard
Well, you're making a detour to Bronze Working; the AI might not be. But also, I think the AIs cheat, to make up for their stupidity in other areas, one cheating being able to max out their science rates at 100% despite Despotism. In which case, either try to grow faster and smarter to make up for that, or cheat yourself by giving yourself an extra tech or so with the editor.mfans wrote:I went directly from Alphabet to Code of Laws and Writing (and Bronze Working ),then to Literacy, and I found AI is 15turns ahead before to complete Literacy to start to build the Great Library, how to solve?
Though I'd note that it'll take a while to build the Great Library, even with Literacy researched. So you could try pre-building it by building a different wonder and switching, as mentioned, or by building lots of diplomats or phalanxes and then disbanding them for half their shield cost once you've started building the GL. Sort of like Caravans but at 50% effectiveness.
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I even have no time to research the Trade.Jim-11 wrote:Great Library is a Must Have wonder for me. I get Trade early, and then my cities can work on Caravans while I research Literacy. After I build essential settlers, I also enable the Govenor to Max Science in cities larger than 1. That reduces the city rate of growth, but it also spikes my science progress to get Trade sooner. Then I usually disable all the Govenors to resume normal growth with normal science.
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I don't bother with GL in single-player games. I'm soon more advanced than any AI anyway, so there would be no techs (known by multiple AIs) that it could give me.
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Hi, Cazfi:
would you please give me some tips on science research?
would you please give me some tips on science research?
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Don't worry about (normal or weaker) AIs starting Great Wall and switching to Great Library early. Their capital sucks, their economy sucks, their military sucks, and they need many turns to finish the Great Library. You can't get it always, and if you get it it's not a 100% sure win. If you don't get it pick Pyramids, and grow. The next secret (= the AIs miss this) step is Theory of Gravity, all your universities double their research speed if you get Isaac Newton's College.