u/Hvetemel

In urban planning we try to convince politicians to commit to plans to get the gains from them - usually making them exert themselves to think a little further

I’m reading a book by Johan Harstad about a nuclear waste management engineer

While this might be more of a technical exercise for engineers- I’m interested in literature on the topic- as the time frame is so much longer- and I thought it could be fruitful to get into for myself

I’m interested in any kinds of articles or books not solely dealing with it in technical terms - but also political, economic, i.e social science/philosophical perspectives

I came from playing civ 5 offline only for 750 hours when I was 12-16. I loved to do military, but always felt I couldn’t beat the ai on other victory conditions, so I had to conquer them. I was never really good at civ5. I didn’t understand the macro mechanics like forced to build tall, and 4-5 cities

Now in civ7 i am still really learning to play civ again (>100 hours) , with civ7 I feel like the game is more like chess, making and thinking about strategic moves as opposed to min-maxing.

In some games (standard, or the difficulty above standard) I am able to rush science/culture and surpass the AI if I really want. In some however, I can’t understand how the AI is so much better than me: and feel forced to invade them so they don’t win. I don’t wanna just do wars - I guess I need to get good? And I always feel like tech advantage in the AI is always a looming military threat if I’m far behind.

What are like the macro strategies I don’t understand to be really good at science, commerce or culture? (Like in civ5 building tall not wide for science)

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