Hello all, half a decade late to the party, but I've been getting back into Civ 4 recently (50% Monarch), and have a bit of confusion regarding specialization of science and money cities.
Some of what I've read suggests only building science buildings in some commerce cities and only money buildings in others.
The confusion for me is that in practice I will have more science multiplier buildings, so I tend to run 100% science for a while, go broke and then build up some cash to fund more science.
In this scenario, the only thing that makes sense is to just build both types of buildings in every commerce in no particular order to take advantage of both 0% and 100% slider rates. (With the added bonus that all of these other buildings except library, bank and university also produce happiness/health bonuses)
Th alternative is to use specialists for money (dedicated GP farm with merchants). The downside to me is that if I overdo this, I will spend the entire game pumping out merchants, so if I'm lucky enough to have 2 solid GP farms early on, then I can do one each or something of the sort.
Any general consensus on the issue? Is the loss in hammers (could be used for wealth or military instead) worth it? I'm aiming to move up to Emperor sometime soon so I'd really like to polish my empire management skills off.
Good to be back!
Some of what I've read suggests only building science buildings in some commerce cities and only money buildings in others.
The confusion for me is that in practice I will have more science multiplier buildings, so I tend to run 100% science for a while, go broke and then build up some cash to fund more science.
In this scenario, the only thing that makes sense is to just build both types of buildings in every commerce in no particular order to take advantage of both 0% and 100% slider rates. (With the added bonus that all of these other buildings except library, bank and university also produce happiness/health bonuses)
Th alternative is to use specialists for money (dedicated GP farm with merchants). The downside to me is that if I overdo this, I will spend the entire game pumping out merchants, so if I'm lucky enough to have 2 solid GP farms early on, then I can do one each or something of the sort.
Any general consensus on the issue? Is the loss in hammers (could be used for wealth or military instead) worth it? I'm aiming to move up to Emperor sometime soon so I'd really like to polish my empire management skills off.
Good to be back!