Word of God. Yes, I would say that ignoring that is fucking retarded! No shit Sherlock! The person that controls the world looked at your argument and said that it was a bad idea! You know what that means? YOU ARE WRONG!
First, stop shouting, please. This helps nobody - well, maybe it helps you to vent, but that does not exactly justify it.
Second, I do remember that post.
Depends how low Econ goes, but generally its a 1:1 exchange between Econ and Centralization.
More Fishing, Farms (Step or Regular), or Pasture land should keep things stable. However, given the military necessities, investing in the military is probably a good idea, even if it will be disruptive.
Also, the expedition won't necessarily chase the nomads out onto the plains, it is just that you are compelled to fight it out. Failure to pay back the attack this turn is unlikely to cause problems, but the score needs to be settled in some way eventually.
There are several parts worth noting:
1. Any food-related thing will keep economy stable.
2. Investing in military will be disruptive, but is
probably worth it.
3. We aren't necessarily going to be fighting in the plains.
4. We are not likely to be punished for not investing into Military this turn by unrest (nothing says we can't lose due to it, mind), we just have to eventually do it.
5. Econ is
generally exchanged 1:1 for Centralization, but that does not remove strife, just makes it bloodless (unless things are really fucked, but we are pretty stable civ).
Those are the facts, now to speculation.
1. Phrase about 'probably a good idea' was a response to 'what would our Econ advisor say?', which means it may or may not be straight Word of QM.
2. If we think it is Word of QM and not answer to 'what would econ advisor IC recommend', which is the question that was asked (and come on,
AN would not give us advise in his QM capacity) , then you are right. That's one big if.
So, before we spiral into the further argument, we should confirm with QM whether it was an answer to the question of 'What IC advisor would say' or straight-up QM advise.
