ccubed
Chieftain
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- Nov 21, 2005
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I'm still learning this game, so this is probably old news, but I want to see if I'm getting a better idea on ways to get the most out of city specialization. What I've been doing is using a spot with lots of floodplains and/or at least a couple of food resources and grasslands to make a mostly farmed and lightly cottaged city for high population that can work tiles, grow, and still afford to have specialists.
The new (at least to me) technique was that at around size 12-15 I would go into Caste System and every few turns I would remove as many workers from the tiles as I could without starving off a pop point, and setting them all to a specific great person for a round. I'd get a big influx of GPP and lose food, which in the ensuing 2 or 3 turns when I set everything back to normal I would get back anyway. Is this useful to do or would I end up just getting the same results over time by leaving things alone as I set up in the first paragraph? It seemed like I was getting GPs faster with the binge and purge method, but that could just be my newness to city specialization.
As a side note, it would seem that this tactic, if viable, would be interesting with Saladin since his Philosophical and Spiritual nature would allow you to switch in and out of Caste System roughly on pace with the binging and purging and you would benefit from the +100% GPP rate.
But is this all just useless activity that would results in the same thing as just leaving the city alone at stagnant level with all excess workers as the specific specialists? Can it be useful to hurry up the acquisition of a specific GP?
Just looking for input from those more knowledgeable than me.
The new (at least to me) technique was that at around size 12-15 I would go into Caste System and every few turns I would remove as many workers from the tiles as I could without starving off a pop point, and setting them all to a specific great person for a round. I'd get a big influx of GPP and lose food, which in the ensuing 2 or 3 turns when I set everything back to normal I would get back anyway. Is this useful to do or would I end up just getting the same results over time by leaving things alone as I set up in the first paragraph? It seemed like I was getting GPs faster with the binge and purge method, but that could just be my newness to city specialization.
As a side note, it would seem that this tactic, if viable, would be interesting with Saladin since his Philosophical and Spiritual nature would allow you to switch in and out of Caste System roughly on pace with the binging and purging and you would benefit from the +100% GPP rate.
But is this all just useless activity that would results in the same thing as just leaving the city alone at stagnant level with all excess workers as the specific specialists? Can it be useful to hurry up the acquisition of a specific GP?
Just looking for input from those more knowledgeable than me.