damnrunner
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Founding confu. I think that if possible we should still try to found confu in the future 5th city with the flood plains to the SW. This will probably be our second largest commerce city and would be the best place to eventually build Wall Street.
If this is not possible - I think Aktau is the best second choice even though it is also our GP city.
My reasoning is as follows. Since we will be running 100% science most of the time, we only will be producing gold a small amount of gold (from shrines and merchants) expect on those turns when we switch to 100% gold. This is why we generally want our gold city to have a high base commerce rate so that when we switch over to 100% gold we get the largest benefit from the various multipliers (market, wall street, etc).
However, another option is to make a city that produces enough gold even when we are running 100% science. This would require a shrine, merchants, and great merchants. A setup that suits a GP farm like aktua. Once we get 2-3 great scientists the utility of more GS's drops off - at that point merchants are really more useful by allowign us to run a 100% science rate. Also by running merchants in Aktau we will get several GM's which when added to the city will provide additional gold as well as increased food which will let us run even more great people.
I see our options for founding confu as two - either found in a large base commerce city, or in a gold focused city. This leaves the SW city or the GP farm city. I do not think Palvo would be a good city as it will never generate that much commerce (even though it does have gold) and would be best as a production city.
If this is not possible - I think Aktau is the best second choice even though it is also our GP city.
My reasoning is as follows. Since we will be running 100% science most of the time, we only will be producing gold a small amount of gold (from shrines and merchants) expect on those turns when we switch to 100% gold. This is why we generally want our gold city to have a high base commerce rate so that when we switch over to 100% gold we get the largest benefit from the various multipliers (market, wall street, etc).
However, another option is to make a city that produces enough gold even when we are running 100% science. This would require a shrine, merchants, and great merchants. A setup that suits a GP farm like aktua. Once we get 2-3 great scientists the utility of more GS's drops off - at that point merchants are really more useful by allowign us to run a 100% science rate. Also by running merchants in Aktau we will get several GM's which when added to the city will provide additional gold as well as increased food which will let us run even more great people.
I see our options for founding confu as two - either found in a large base commerce city, or in a gold focused city. This leaves the SW city or the GP farm city. I do not think Palvo would be a good city as it will never generate that much commerce (even though it does have gold) and would be best as a production city.
multiplied by WS and other bonusses will be awesome!
we need to get this straightened out... 
Do you think you can give me a turn by turn of everything you are doing up until Confu is founded. I keep trying to get Confu to found in Oskemen and it just WONT HAPPEN. I even tried whipping Pavlodar AND Aktau and Confu still wont found in Oskemen. I don't get what it is that you are doing to get it to found in Oskemen. I know that might take a while so if you don't have time that's cool... I guess we will just have to take our chances.
