The early game is all about the food, the middle game is all about the money, the end game is all about the shields. Priorities shift as the game progresses.
And you don't need cities bigger than 12 to win under any condition than milking for final score. Cities bigger than twelve become management headaches in fact, as you need every luxury on the map to keep them productive and you have to spend shields on things like cathedrals and colusseums and hospitals. Or you are spending a lot of commerce on entertainment. In short they just aren't efficient, impressive as they are to look at.
So at this point and on into the modern era, I like to keep a gang or two of workers in the core to trim the terrain for shields or food as needed. The objective here on in is maximum shields with only the food needed to keep everybody healthy. So "mine green irrigate brown" just may get turned on its head.
vxma's point is a good one, this only applies when the added shields go into the production bin. At some point we will have to look at the use of the policeman and civil engineer specialists. But that is a whole 'nother subject in itself and only applies after learning Nationalism and Replaceable Parts.
And you don't need cities bigger than 12 to win under any condition than milking for final score. Cities bigger than twelve become management headaches in fact, as you need every luxury on the map to keep them productive and you have to spend shields on things like cathedrals and colusseums and hospitals. Or you are spending a lot of commerce on entertainment. In short they just aren't efficient, impressive as they are to look at.
So at this point and on into the modern era, I like to keep a gang or two of workers in the core to trim the terrain for shields or food as needed. The objective here on in is maximum shields with only the food needed to keep everybody healthy. So "mine green irrigate brown" just may get turned on its head.
vxma's point is a good one, this only applies when the added shields go into the production bin. At some point we will have to look at the use of the policeman and civil engineer specialists. But that is a whole 'nother subject in itself and only applies after learning Nationalism and Replaceable Parts.