why is code of laws so important?

like some players think you should try to rush to it as fast as possible but i dont see what the big deal is its just trading posts and republic, is republic like an overpowered government or something?

lordmacroer said:

like some players think you should try to rush to it as fast as possible but i dont see what the big deal is its just trading posts and republic, is republic like an overpowered government or something?

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well being able to build settlers for just 1 pop reduction in origional city is quite nice...
But fundy is the overpowered government

why is it then that everybody says that you gotta beeline to code of laws?

Religion is much farther into the tech tree than Code of Laws. Code of Laws is also on the tech path to Feudalism (knights) and Democracy (trade bonus). Not every game calls for expansion as you may be able to just attack your enemy early, but if you can't do that, you will almost certainly want to build some settlers and Republic is preferred for that.