Just want to hear some opinions, if I'm just playing well here or if maybe some of the new features/changes affecting research broke something...
I play on normal difficulty and started my game as a Moretania (a small tribe in the iberian north). Now after having roughly played 40 years, I noticed that my tech pace accelerated and I hit the 300% ceiling (never achieved that in 100s h of IR before):
I will soon have reached lvl4 in all techs and lvl5 is only ~4 years away. Even if I take in account that the ahead-of-time penalty will slow future progress and Gold might become the bottleneck to use all the fancy discoveries, my feeling is that I will very likely hit lvl 20 way before the game ends. I'm not necessarily thinking that this is a problem by itself - but I'm a bit surprised that I reached this position without deliberately attempting. I wouldn't call my capital a mega city, for example...
I invested PI in a few trade extra routes (and the trade goods I'm able to import - there is not a lot of choice - partly ended up to be ones which citizens and nobles like - so their happiness is close to 100%) and build three libraries...but I wouln't have expected this to be enough to let my science go to the roof... My capital is the only science hub - I have expanded sucessfully, yes (I'm owning now 36 territories and 210 pops in total), but there are currently no more cities and most of the pops outside my capital are Slaves or Tribesmen. I have integrated no culture so far, instead reduced civil rights of the three biggest conquered ones to Slaves - which leads to a situation that only 17 pops out of said 210 are from my own culture (and therefore counting for research):
My economic strategy relies mainly on mining the sources of precious metals (which are abundant in this area) for export:
In case someone wnats to investigate deeper I attached the save I took the pic from.
As said, I'm interested in opinion and a fair and open-minded discussion about if something has went wrong here
I play on normal difficulty and started my game as a Moretania (a small tribe in the iberian north). Now after having roughly played 40 years, I noticed that my tech pace accelerated and I hit the 300% ceiling (never achieved that in 100s h of IR before):
I will soon have reached lvl4 in all techs and lvl5 is only ~4 years away. Even if I take in account that the ahead-of-time penalty will slow future progress and Gold might become the bottleneck to use all the fancy discoveries, my feeling is that I will very likely hit lvl 20 way before the game ends. I'm not necessarily thinking that this is a problem by itself - but I'm a bit surprised that I reached this position without deliberately attempting. I wouldn't call my capital a mega city, for example...
I invested PI in a few trade extra routes (and the trade goods I'm able to import - there is not a lot of choice - partly ended up to be ones which citizens and nobles like - so their happiness is close to 100%) and build three libraries...but I wouln't have expected this to be enough to let my science go to the roof... My capital is the only science hub - I have expanded sucessfully, yes (I'm owning now 36 territories and 210 pops in total), but there are currently no more cities and most of the pops outside my capital are Slaves or Tribesmen. I have integrated no culture so far, instead reduced civil rights of the three biggest conquered ones to Slaves - which leads to a situation that only 17 pops out of said 210 are from my own culture (and therefore counting for research):
My economic strategy relies mainly on mining the sources of precious metals (which are abundant in this area) for export:
In case someone wnats to investigate deeper I attached the save I took the pic from.
As said, I'm interested in opinion and a fair and open-minded discussion about if something has went wrong here
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