FrozenSphere
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- Dec 24, 2011
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For that matter, why rush a courthouse in a designated farm city? Just rush the aqueduct instead.
But, like I said, you save money on rushing the aqueduct because the city is producing more good shields. Both you and creamcheese make this same point. But I already took it into account in my thinking. Yes, you spend money/turns completing/rushing courthouse, but then you save money/turns afterward when building/rushing other things because your shield production is now higher; therefore rushing those other things is cheaper. That's what I was explaining in my 3d paragraph above. Unless if you're talking about rushing something by buying it outright, from the very first turn, when no shields have gone into the improvement yet.
Also, the 1 gpt upkeep cost of a courthouse will be more than made up for in any strongly corrupt city, because you will receive more commerce as well as more shields. That's another thing. Corruption affects your commerce production in addition to shields. In my example, I would gain several more commerce counters that would go towards either gold or science (depending on my slider), and the extra gold per turn I would now generate from that city would be more than the 1gpt that is the upkeep cost of the courthouse.
I didn't even bring up this point earlier about the more commerce that you generate... That's another thing that should be factored in.
But I'll say this. I think we might be talking about kind of different things anyway. I'm not good with this whole concept of farm cities. I have like no experience doing that lol (at least, not in a long time). I just think that in general, it's useful to build courthouses in cities that are not close to the capital and which experience strong corruption.
I've recently come back to playing civ3 after a years long hiatus. Right now my strategy is to just build things and then I can decide later if I want to make some cities into farms after I get them to a large population. I could post a save to show my examples with outer cities and courthouses...