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turn 5 to soon?
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no
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The sooner the better.
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Every turn you don't, you lose an extra 1k. Therefore, whatever you're delaying for, has to be worth at least 1k 
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it hink 1st turn is the best
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Linner it is tax reform (as from a tech dependant on the market), not the tax tech as the one dependant on the castle.
It is impossible to have in the 1st turn.
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Guer, check out the number of campaigns played!
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lol i guess dats y he said dat...but its true teh best thing to due is get tax researched first and at the max turn 10 u get the reform.
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i always reasearch military then commerce
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i usually skip commerce and just take a market from whoever is next to me... though that sometimes doesnt always work according to plan :S
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You don't get the market techs when you take over a Market Place.
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Yes, but you can save on the market research, and the market, by executing a hostile takeover of someone else efforts, and once you have a market, you can do the tech upgrades.
Saving a few precious resources.
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get as much gold as you can at the start, it is more inportant than anything else at the start.
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well it really is as important as possible...but then the whole tax reform...well in reality it always depends on the situation... 
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gueritol, unless you take over the opponents marketplace QUICKLY (and I mean REALLY quickly) you'll be losing out. Having tax reform early really, really helps.
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You would have to get that marketplace effectively 3/4 turns sooner than you'd buy commerce and get your market. If you can't assure you'll get it that quick - build your own
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I also like tax refort early.
But lately there has been but 1 game that I haven't been on war since turn 5, and only beacuse it was a maze map 
* Darn magnet for warmongers *
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Tha't because everyone knows you are an easy target 
. I mean... um...