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I've played a good number of IGC's, but only recently tried a muslim IGC besides Turkey. I decided to use Algiers, normal/normal with IGC 2.1, 1.09 patch, and I played, did quite well for myself, ended up with all of North Africa, Nubia and Ethiopia and a good portion of Italy (northern). So my question is, is there anything I can do to get tech advancement even close to those of my European counterparts? I spent all my monthly allowance on research pretty much the whole game; but still at the end I was down by about 15-20 tech levels to everyone else. I couldn't fight any wars against European opposition, since I'd need to outnumber them about 7-1 to get anywhere. If I had done poorly in the game, not having any provinces and whatnot, I'd understand, but it seems a little ridiculous to be that far behind when I was doing that well. (5th place...)

I guess what I was thinking is that I had two big things going against me: 1, obviously, the fact that I was Sunni muslim. The only other thing I could think of that would set me back THAT far was the fact that most of the provinces I controlled were barren and desolate, like the Atlas mountains, the Nubian desert and whatnot. Anybody else have any ideas on this/what could be done or whatever? I mean, obviously I could set my tech-group to Catholic or whatever, but I mean, it still just sits wrong with me that I ended up that far behind... I'm not saying I thought I should be 1-1 with the European nations, but to be 20 tech levels behind? I don't know...
 
I'm not sure what the math+game mechanics of the situation is, but I guess my follow up to that is what are the weights of those two effects? I don't know the calculations going on well enough to know. I had a huge country of low yield provinces and was in the muslim tech group. How would you weigh those against each other? Does the low yield province issue have a big effect, or would you say it's mainly just the fact I'm muslim? Because I could certainly avoid #1 (I.E. not annexing nubia, ethiopia, other countries made up of mostly useless provinces)...
 
Originally posted by Huszics
Tech increase cost is relative the number of provinces.
Thus a lot of low income provinces with cities make tech advance much slower since they add cost but generate low income.
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thats why the small german city states was long in fron in scince in the first versions
 
That's what I thought, Huszics... Any idea what kind of impact it has? Is it minimal in my example, or could it really be a big deal? It doesn't matter that much, since the IGC is over by now, but I was just curious if I ever try using one of the Muslim provinces again...
 
Originally posted by John_Keats
That's what I thought, Huszics... Any idea what kind of impact it has? Is it minimal in my example, or could it really be a big deal? It doesn't matter that much, since the IGC is over by now, but I was just curious if I ever try using one of the Muslim provinces again...
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Check out my beta FAQ, basicly all I know about this is in there (though remember it might have been tweaked in 1.09).
 
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