update to turn 156:
France & China:
Beam knows all civs on my continent, he's currently admiring the French Riviera.
The Chinese tourists wanted to share a secret!
Yes, we made a deal. I bought theo for 45gpt from Beam. He's still weak, but got ahead in techs, thus he probably accepted. Maybe not for love, but for money (>upgrades, AI catch up).
My motivation here is to get to printing press ASAP (improve chance of contact gaining). Actually noone has it here, so I now research it. My suicide ships all drowned, while the Babs now travel sea tiles with their galleys. Chances are they meet someone, I surely don't want to miss that opportunity to gain contacts before trying the TGL raid.
Education is yet unknown to Germany/Korea, but I'm sure Beam will lastly adjust that as soon as he spots a war on F4 (ETA 10-15 I think).
Doing still very well on F11; after some expansions, I'm even #2 in land area now.