Does anyone else have this issue when playing as sury

bhavv

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Getting commerce poor starts and getting granaries, libs and barracks built too soon that you have to spend ages overspamming needless workers or warriors while your tech catches up? Even walls were built while I was still teching Mathematics / Currency.
 
Yea that was the issue, I had a lot of land and plonked down 7 or 8 cities.
 
There's a critical point in expansion always when the maintenance through the number of cities rises by 1. I think that's at 7 cities under standard / normal. Look at the maintenance in the city-screen and learn when it rises by 1 for the settings you play the most. Greatly helps.
 
When I know I'm going to have to grab some land fast before it's too late, i construct some early cottages and force my cities to grow them, especially flood plains cottages. When their output rises it's going to help with the maintenance. This applies as well if you want to be attacking early, and don't want to stunt your research.
 
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