The law of supply and demand.- GS

Supply and demand is starting point in economics it works like this. If demands are high, the prices go down. On the other hand, if the prices are high, demand goes down. It is really simple when you think about, but it helps a lot to know how it works. For example, if you sell your strawberries during the strawberry season the supply of strawberry will be high, so the price will go down. However, if you wait and sell your strawberries in the winter the supply will be low so the price will be higher.

Supply and demand as not affected my game a lot because I just reached turn 100. However, copper and spices are in demand in my city this makes the price I'm willing to pay for those 2 resources much higher. Since I'm the only one on my knowledge to want these two resources, making the demand very low and by the law of supply and demand the prices higher. I personally did not change the supply and demand yet, but I think that my possession of most of the world's gold (at my knowledge) will affect the supply and demand later on in the game.

A great example of supply and the demand in history would be when Colombus found the Americas. The only reason the Americas were found at that time is that Colombus wanted a faster way to get to India. Then you know the story he sails to India by the Atlantic and lands in America instead. But do you know why Colombus wanted a faster way to India? The answer supply and demand. During that time period a resource Europe was lacking was spices. This made the demand very high therefor, making the price low and dissuading any farmers from farming spices. But in India the supply of spice and the demand were pretty average almost at an equilibrium (perfect price with demand matching supply= equilibrium) So Colombus was sent by the king of Spain to get spices from India where the spices costed less.

This is how the law of supply and demand affects the real world and Civ 5.

Scarcity-GS

In Civ 5 the resources are always different so sometimes gold can be scarce while in other games production can be scarce. What is sure is that you won't get a perfect world. This means that depending on what type of victory you want, you will need to focus on one resource. If you want to win by science you will focus on the science/production, so that you can get advances in science fast and production for sciences buildings. If you want to win by culture you will need to focus on culture/production, so that you won't get overtaken by someone's culture and production to build buildings that give more culture/tourism. Finally, if you want to win democratically or militarily you will need to focus on gold and production so that you can by unit and city states and builds that help your military power or your politics. As you can see production is the most important to me, but this is for another blog entry.

The result of scarcity can be devastating in Civ, if you don't get good resources you will have trouble winning in  any way. So planning your strategy to get good resources is essential. I am just at the start of my game so right now so I have not experienced scarcity so I can't really talk about it. My situation right now is pretty good I am not lacking any resources and have a pretty balanced game so far.

In real life a scarce resource is oil. Oil is everything in the real world, it makes the world what it is. However, since it’s not an infinite resource and that everyone want it it is less and less common these days. It can be compared to luxury resources in Civ. In Civ happiness is the biggest factor in Civ changing everything from your money income to how fast you're civ grows.

Multiplayer Civ-GS

Playing against real people will be very different from playing against the A.I . The main thing is that the enemies are not programed so their tactics are less obvious to predict. There is also that human trust is in the game if you are not trustworthy in real life than people won't want to ally you in Civ.
This also makes outcomes as small as a trade seems gigantic because if you don't have a good relationship, then you won't be able to progress as fast as the other civs

It will also be more educative because instead of just learning about geography and thing like that you will learn about psychology and trade. It also trains how you manage stress and its work on your strategic planning more than against bots. I think Mr. G wants us to play against real people so we get a idea of how the real world came to be as it is today.

I would not put my odds really high I think I might not win because I am less experienced than most people in my group so I think that not trusting too much and playing it safe will be the best strategy

My plans for the game is to rush the most wonders (if I can get Egypte) I will not plan for which victory I want and see what the game offers me.