AccipiterQ said:does any of this apply any more, since with the latest patch the computer won't trade you resources that you already have?
Cereal Mills often gets me more food then sid suhi
The only significant aspect of this strategy I failed to identify in the discussion so far is the trade-off regarding the alternate strategy, namely...State Property!
Would I be better off just sticking with State Property and enjoy its benefits or would the cost of swapping to Free Markets pay off?
...On the other hand, my economy was crashing towards the end, I was losing gold with a 10% slider while almost every city was building Wealth, 29 cities with Sushi are hard to maintain. Outside of UN victories, it should definitely be used with care.
I would contend that Sushi is useful is almost all games, not the very few that are going for UN victories. It just has to be used properly. Improperly used, yes, you can run your economy into the ground.
Totally agree. Each time I bother to play that far into the game, I spread Sushis everywhere and it's always a huge booster.I would contend that Sushi is useful is almost all games, not the very few that are going for UN victories.
Well, here we go, then. I guess I phrased it badly as well. Let's try again:We definitely agree here, and if you think I proposed Sushi only for UN then maybe I phrased it badly. Sushi everywhere is useful only for UN
SP is powerful but not "all that" as many people think.Sushi used with care is useful very often (though I still think not always because of the power and immediate benefit of State Property).
You put words on something I have been experiencing since I started playing Civ 17 years ago... It really takes some effort to try new strategies....IMO it's easy to get tied to a specific strategy, SP being a good example. To find the power of that strategy, and then to play it a couple of games, and get even better at it. This snowballs and the natural result is a disinclination to play other strategies, which, since they haven't been played nearly as much, are at an "earlier" stage of proficiency.
georgjorge said:Something else, I think the info about AIs spreading your corporations are a bit off. Two games now, I've tried spreading Sushi to the AI. In one game, the spread started only after a lot of turns, at least fifty, and was limited to only a few cities. In the other game, the AI spread it after even more turns in exactly one city, then stopped. None of the AIs had any corporations of their own...So financing domestic spread with foreign one never really worked for me.
We definitely agree here, and if you think I proposed Sushi only for UN then maybe I phrased it badly. Sushi everywhere is useful only for UN (and for UN, like in this case it may be the correct choice to damage your economy and have to use the culture slider if it means getting enough population to win the vote). Sushi used with care is useful very often (though I still think not always because of the power and immediate benefit of State Property).