Educated Elite - Great People ?

[warioland3]

When I saw the social policy "Educational Elite" that occasionally gives you great people I was very intrgiued to find out how it was.

This game was as Egypt on Emporer level on Epic. I unlocked the policy on turn 374 and became Allies with 17 City States; 3 Militaristic, 4 Cultured, 8 Maritime and maintained the alliances.

After turn 463 - so 89 turns - I had only received 2 Great People - both Great Merchants. I got them both from Militaristic states.

Considering the amount of money needed to sustain 17 City-State alliances I think the return is a little on the harsh side. Maybe the Great People are handed out on a per-50-turns basis collectively say rather then per-City State.

I wonder if anyone has tried to utilise this social policy and have they had any success and which types of GPeople do you get mostly?

 

[civnoob13]

I think you've been very unlucky. I've got lots of great people (although mainly generals and merchants I think) but they're far more frequent than what you describe, even though I have less CSs than you. Maybe it scales with difficulty...

 

[Stormreaver]

I have also received more GPs than your scenario, but they seem to be mostly generals. On the other hand, I've also received Khans (Mongol GG), who absolutely rock.

 

[Lose]

ive been getting a lot of great sci's and merchants sometimes even khans. rarely GE

 

[starrywisdom]

To the people replying: It would be exponentially more useful if you could provide an approximate number using unspecific adjetives like 'rare' or 'common' without a more complete 'standard'. If you're refering to his quote of 2, how much more is common(5, 10, 15?) etc. Obviously no one is going to remember for sure, but 'a lot' could mean 3 to some people and 20 to others

 

[Stormreaver]

To the people replying: It would be exponentially more useful if you could provide an approximate number using unspecific adjetives like 'rare' or 'common' without a more complete 'standard'. If you're refering to his quote of 2, how much more is common(5, 10, 15?) etc. Obviously no one is going to remember for sure, but 'a lot' could mean 3 to some people and 20 to others

Didn't keep a very exact count, but somewhere in the vicinity of 1 GP per 100 turns of citystate alliance? I had 2 to 4 CS allies for most part of my only game with Patronage tree as a priority, I guess I had the policy for 100-200 turns before victory, and got at least 2 Khans, 2 GGs and a GSci.

 

[warioland3]

Ah interesting maybe I was just unlucky ;(

Yar the point of the post was just to see if anything in particular affects the generation of Great People from CStates; i.e. difficulty and type of CState...

I'd love to play 10 different games and try it out and see what numbers I got but that'd probably take me a week

 

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