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radmod

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While playing around with times it takes to educate colonists I discovered something I had not seen posted here: if you have no other specialized units in a city, then training a specialized unit such as an elder statesman costs no additional money!

So I was thinking, for those of you who don't want to create any bells until later in the game consider building University cities (Princeton, Harvard, etc.). As soon as you get an elder statesman found a city with just him. Use him to build up to your university (however long it takes). Then train units in that city and the cost for the statesman is 0 (not 500). I'm assuming this works with all specialized units.
 
In the vanilla version, the cheapest (or only specialist) is a freebee. This is so essentially there is always some to train to at the end of schooling.

This to me is the biggest problem with the vanilla setup of asking for major after education. You could have no gold, and train the most expensive profession for free. That's why I changed it completely in AoD2. You have to buy the major first before education.
 
Dale said: "That's why I changed it completely in AoD2. You have to buy the major first before education. "

Ooh, I like that. You have to pay tuition first! I really should check out the AoD and other versions.
 
Except its bugged in AoD2 (well besides the fact AoD2 is incompatible with the 1.01 patch), it persistently bugs you when the computer overrides your lock on a colonist and puts it in the school (its also done this in AoD2 to put a colonist I had locked to create LBs as well, which is very dangerous and frustrating!), you are not allowed to simply move the colonist out of the school and not pay for tuition. Basically, when the game decides to move a colonist into a school, you have no control and in AoD you have to immediately pay for it, even if you don't want to retrain them at the school.
 
Those bugs are all fixed for 1.08. And, automation no longer plonks FC's in schools. That's now a manual process.
 
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