SimpleMonkey
King
I'm currently playing at C3C at Monarch (doing well), with one moderately successful Emperor game set aside for the time being. In my current game as the Russians, I kept myself in Despotism until sometime early in the Middle Ages. I had picked up Republic a while back, and was at tech parity with the leading AI civs. I know that the common wisdom is to get out of Despotism as soon as you have your core cities at 6 pop or above, but I was having way too much fun pop rushing my infrastructure. Paying for libraries (so I didn't get totally culture-whacked and so I could keep pumping out the beakers) and harbors and aquaducts with shields or gold seems like such a waste when you can just pay for them with blood.
Is this something that folks do often at Monarch and above -- stay in Despotism to keep pop-rushing? I haven't played a religious civ in a while, so I stick with the strategy of switching govs once to Republic and staying put. Thus I'm not planning on switching to Commie just to start pop-rushing again. Pretty much once I'm done with Despotism then I'm paying with gold ever after.
What do you all do?
Is this something that folks do often at Monarch and above -- stay in Despotism to keep pop-rushing? I haven't played a religious civ in a while, so I stick with the strategy of switching govs once to Republic and staying put. Thus I'm not planning on switching to Commie just to start pop-rushing again. Pretty much once I'm done with Despotism then I'm paying with gold ever after.
What do you all do?