elprofesor
Pluri-editing poster
Annexed cities are a much better use of your scarce happiness resources than puppeteed cities are. Puppet cities are always on gold focus, which means they take forever to build what you need, plus they prioritize defensive and gold buildings, so you'll have to wait a lot to see science buildings up (or cultural buildings, if that's what you want because you've gone piety, for example). And you can't build/rush buy units in annexed cities.
From a happiness point of view, an annexed city is much more efficient, event without the cheap 3 happiness of the curthouse. You'll choose when to build the happiness buildings (and that includes happiness buildings from SPs, which puppets tend to ignore), and you'll do it faster. You may even buy them if needed.
By the way, to those that say that it's a big no-no for SP adquistion costs, take into account that this depends on your sources of culture. If most of your culture comes from CS or from a heavily specialized city (covered with landmarks, for example), then it's a bad idea. Otherwise, your annexed city needs only to provide 15% of the cpt your capital makes to be culture-neutral (I know this is an oversimplification, I do it just to remember you that 15% is not that much at all).
I far as I'm concerned, it's a bug, and it would be a very bad idea to allow courthouses to be built everywhere; we'd be back to ICS times.
From a happiness point of view, an annexed city is much more efficient, event without the cheap 3 happiness of the curthouse. You'll choose when to build the happiness buildings (and that includes happiness buildings from SPs, which puppets tend to ignore), and you'll do it faster. You may even buy them if needed.
By the way, to those that say that it's a big no-no for SP adquistion costs, take into account that this depends on your sources of culture. If most of your culture comes from CS or from a heavily specialized city (covered with landmarks, for example), then it's a bad idea. Otherwise, your annexed city needs only to provide 15% of the cpt your capital makes to be culture-neutral (I know this is an oversimplification, I do it just to remember you that 15% is not that much at all).
I far as I'm concerned, it's a bug, and it would be a very bad idea to allow courthouses to be built everywhere; we'd be back to ICS times.