I'm always running short on gold it feels like. These days I've been trying out manual tile assignement and manual specialists. It works quite nicely.
Especially revealing is how if you have nothing worthwhile to build, then you could instead work many farms. Thereby, you would gain massive growth. Thereby, you can work more mines and other tiles faster.
But the problem for me is that I don't improve many trading posts in my cities.
I often pick order ideology, so I choose emphasize mines over hill trading posts.
I build farms in the beginning and mid portions of the game because they're available (unlike trading posts which come from guilds)
What I'm lacking always is GPT, with order wide sprawling empire. There's simply too much building maintenance from all the science buildings etc... And roads too! And units...
I know that the grassland tile can sustain itself, with a trading post improvement. The problem becomes when you have lots of plains land.
OR when you have many hill mines nearby that you want to work in the future after having grown more pops. +5 hammer mines are really nice. (and you get the +1 hammer from order, even to e.g. grassland iron mines)
For social policies I went tradition, patronage, rationalism and order ( I was surrounded by militaristic city states in a corner of the map, those city states were on hills also )
Especially revealing is how if you have nothing worthwhile to build, then you could instead work many farms. Thereby, you would gain massive growth. Thereby, you can work more mines and other tiles faster.
But the problem for me is that I don't improve many trading posts in my cities.
I often pick order ideology, so I choose emphasize mines over hill trading posts.
I build farms in the beginning and mid portions of the game because they're available (unlike trading posts which come from guilds)
What I'm lacking always is GPT, with order wide sprawling empire. There's simply too much building maintenance from all the science buildings etc... And roads too! And units...
I know that the grassland tile can sustain itself, with a trading post improvement. The problem becomes when you have lots of plains land.
OR when you have many hill mines nearby that you want to work in the future after having grown more pops. +5 hammer mines are really nice. (and you get the +1 hammer from order, even to e.g. grassland iron mines)
For social policies I went tradition, patronage, rationalism and order ( I was surrounded by militaristic city states in a corner of the map, those city states were on hills also )