So I'm starting to get the hang of noble/prince. I've read in several posts here that a good goal is 5-6 cities by 1000 BC. I've also read the strategy of building a library and running 2 scientists in your capital for a good tech rate. The latter strategy I have started using pretty much in all my games and it seems to keep me ahead or at least even in tech rate through the medieval era or sometimes all the way to liberalism if I can land the Great Library and there aren't a lot of tech fiends around. But I've never managed the first goal. Are these 2 strategies such that you can't do both or I am missing something in my REX strategies? The best I've ever done is 4 cities with a fifth settler being built by 1000 AD. My typical game is 3 cities at 1000BC with 6 somewhere between 1AD and 1000 AD. To get 5-6 cities by 1000 AD do you build nothing but settlers and workers after hitting size 3?
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