RE: Post making contest
07-31-2016, 02:35 PM
@a52: Pottery is pretty much always a good bet - you'll be wanting a shrine and/or a granary sufficiently early on that it makes sense to tech to them, especially in the NQ situation where it's entirely possible to get through a scout-scout-monument build queue in under ten turns if your start is good enough. In vanilla Civ, though, you can kinda make an argument for Animal Husbandry; specifically, if you've got Strategic Balance on (which you probably should have) and your start has piss-poor production (flat grassland, say), then it's not risky to discover horses since you're guaranteed at least one tile of them. If your initial production is sufficiently lacking that you feel this move beneficial, then you wouldn't be ready to construct Pottery buildings if you opted for that first, so you don't really lose anything.
Other than that, Archery's not worth it (why would you want an archer that early?) and Mining without a worker is a bit useless (and the Masonry wonders, as valuable as they are in NQMod, should not be beelined) - the one thing I would note with Mining in the mod is that that's where you discover iron, rather than at Bronze Working, so you could make the same argument about initial production as you did with horses above... except you will not be lacking in initial production that heavily in the mod to warrant working a tile that most likely won't have any food and will at best yield one...
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Other than that, Archery's not worth it (why would you want an archer that early?) and Mining without a worker is a bit useless (and the Masonry wonders, as valuable as they are in NQMod, should not be beelined) - the one thing I would note with Mining in the mod is that that's where you discover iron, rather than at Bronze Working, so you could make the same argument about initial production as you did with horses above... except you will not be lacking in initial production that heavily in the mod to warrant working a tile that most likely won't have any food and will at best yield one...
@Ix: hello friend how are you?
ANYWAY GUESS WHAT EPISODE TWO IS NOW OUT SEE YOU IN MAYBE HALF AN HOUR