6K Man
Bureaucrat
Re corporations – there is lots of stuff out there on them, but what it comes down to is a choice between:
- Corporations + Free Market. Best Corps tend to be Sushi and Mining, with Cereal Mills a fallback if you can’t get Sushi or are on Pangea. Others are niche only. Corporations let you give a super-boost to your cities (which, besides the obvious, can help with certain victory conditions) or (for the bad corps) fleece the AIs out of branch fees. The downside is that they’re very labour intensive for the player – build exec, move exec, repeat, build x Banks and then Wall Street in HQ, build Courthouse in every branch city.
- State Property. Super-Workshops and Super-Watermills, 10% production bonus, and you can ignore maintenance + Courthouses. Super easy to use.