MrCynical
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Definitely an error in the info centre. That should read 0.5 food and 2 culture per resource consumed.
True, I should have switched to caste system and massed merchants on a seperate high food city. You want to be %100 sure that no other GreatPerson will pop tough :/ I only got 2 GreatMerchants whole game. Not sure what I did with the first one.
Do you find them effective because you usually leverage Sushi, or do you find them effective in their own merits and would do them even if Sushi did not exist?3)Standard Ethanol appears late, at Plastics. With the routes through the tech tree that I find effective, that's often more than a full age after Sushi.
Wodan said:Do you find them effective because you usually leverage Sushi, or do you find them effective in their own merits and would do them even if Sushi did not exist?
Depends on how many farms you have, I suppose. If you're CE and only have a couple farms as needed to feed plains or hills cottages, then Biology wouldn't be all that much benefit.Well, I'd go up to Biology as soon as possible for the extra food from farms
Yeah but that's a LOT of hammers to build those coal plants everywhere. the 3GD can be a huge savings, since you can churn it out with your top production city and/or spend a GE on it.regardless of Sushi, and from there it's only one more tech (though no, I wouldn't bother with Medicine anywhere near as early if Sushi didn't exist). Plastics on the other hand I rarely bother with till quite late (mainly because I don't much like the 3GD - since my production cities tend to stay relatively small I don't tend to have much trouble with unhealthiness there, so I just use coal power).
Not really, but that's not the question. It's a cost:benefit issue. So that's why I ask, anyway. Just talking here...Serious question - do you think you can get to Plastics anywhere near as early as Medicine, if in both cases you are beelining?
If at all possible you should always found a corporation in the Wall Street city. The only reason to found them elsewhere is if you are for some reason founding competing corporations. For example, you might conceivably want to found Mining Inc for a bit of domestic spread, but want to spam Aluminium co. to the AIs. Then you'd want Mining Inc away from Wall Street. If you wanted to deny the AI HQs by founding all the corporations you'd obviously have to have some in a non-Wall Street city.
In practice I find it's very rare that I ever want to found competing corporations, so I just stack them all in the Wall Street city. Sushi (or Cereals sometimes) and Mining is probably the most common combination I use.
If you had to found one in a non Wall street city, there isn't much difference where you put it. You just want one with market/bank/grocer (which would logically be one of your high gold/commerce cities), but doesn't have to be the second best one.