I got calendar a bit before 1000AD. I start pushing heavily to get sugar, dyes, etc on-line. These are great tiles for getting bonus revenue. This continues my theme of being desperate for anything to fix my economy.
I completed the following wonders: Chichen Itza, Versailles, Colossus, Spiral Minaret (partially to deny it to India), Sistine Chapel, and Hagia Sophia (just in time to run out of worker actions).
One thing I am really getting tired of in the game is the governors' tendency to assign specialist even when I don't want them. While Civ4 claims it gets rid of MM, I spend a lot of time reviewing cities to fire specialists. I want the cities close to max population before I will assign specialists in most cases. A specialist may be better then a village, but if I don't work the village it will never grow.
I am still attempting culture despite the lack of enough religions. I did some moves for this goal such as whipping a temple is the fishing village of Marseilles so that third Hindu Mandir could be built.
This game is really frustrating. This is the first game when I failed to found a single religion. Gandhi got Islam when I needed 13 more turns for divine right. This was my last chance to found a religion.
Now if somebody predicted this would be how the world would feel about me I never have believed them.
