vale
Mathematician
How many specialist turns total did you run? Not many to be quite honest if I recall correctly. Enough to get your prophet and start on a sage but I don't think much beyond that. Claims to the contrary feel dishonest to me.
But to address other things:
1. Aristocracy farms are not different from other farms? That is a total reverse of everything you have said throughout this entire thread. Not to mention I certainly had more cottages in my empire than you just from my Capital alone as I am 99.9% positive that you built 0 cottages. I can look at my screenshot and see cottages in my Capital.
2. My post was in response to the perceived city specialization "problem" that Aristocracy will run into in the early-mid game. Your empire is very clearly an example of a degenerate case (all production cities) of a cottage economy. Running a few specialists throughout an empire (and you didn't run that many so again this needs to be spoken about honestly) is something that any economy will do when it is available. My mistake was going for trade after sanitation which was a waste of time instead of getting Mysticism and Elder Councils. Normally, I would have had Libraries (and some specialists) at Writing but I didn't even realize my mistake until I got there.
3. Are you claiming that once you had Warrens in a city you were running a bunch of specialists in lieu of working mines? I strongly doubt it and while I can't verify this by looking right now, if it is true that was a mistake by you. No, once you built the Warrens in a city I can almost guarantee you you were near maxing production for that city for the remainder. (i.e. treating the city as a strict production city). I can't verify right now, but for you to claim anything else is probably false. You are taking advantage of a CoE unique building yes. My mistake not to in my saves, but you were also very clearly specializing a city for production with both the improvements chosen (farms and mines over cottages) and then buildings in the city (Warrens).
The fact of the matter is that your empire stands out as a strong example of the prior posters "city specialization" cottage economy in which every city has been specialized for production. You may deny it but the facts tell the story. A few specialists do not change that fact.
You do tend to bend the math in your favor I've noticed (double counting Soldiers of Kilmorph hammers and not seeing the problem with it for example). This is another example. I think if you honestly look at your save (I can't look at it right now so I am going by memory) you will have to admit that your specialist usage was almost minimum especially considering how early you researched Mysticism. The almost exclusive focus of your citizens was to work farms and mines (and bonuses). I find calling what was demonstrated there a Specialist Economy or anything but an economy focused almost solely on production unbelievably dishonest.
If you had legitimately run a bunch of specialists throughout your empire, then it wouldn't be a good example to use as the "degenerate production only cottage economy" as it would really be a specialist economy. But you didn't, not by a longshot from what I remember.
But to address other things:
1. Aristocracy farms are not different from other farms? That is a total reverse of everything you have said throughout this entire thread. Not to mention I certainly had more cottages in my empire than you just from my Capital alone as I am 99.9% positive that you built 0 cottages. I can look at my screenshot and see cottages in my Capital.
2. My post was in response to the perceived city specialization "problem" that Aristocracy will run into in the early-mid game. Your empire is very clearly an example of a degenerate case (all production cities) of a cottage economy. Running a few specialists throughout an empire (and you didn't run that many so again this needs to be spoken about honestly) is something that any economy will do when it is available. My mistake was going for trade after sanitation which was a waste of time instead of getting Mysticism and Elder Councils. Normally, I would have had Libraries (and some specialists) at Writing but I didn't even realize my mistake until I got there.
3. Are you claiming that once you had Warrens in a city you were running a bunch of specialists in lieu of working mines? I strongly doubt it and while I can't verify this by looking right now, if it is true that was a mistake by you. No, once you built the Warrens in a city I can almost guarantee you you were near maxing production for that city for the remainder. (i.e. treating the city as a strict production city). I can't verify right now, but for you to claim anything else is probably false. You are taking advantage of a CoE unique building yes. My mistake not to in my saves, but you were also very clearly specializing a city for production with both the improvements chosen (farms and mines over cottages) and then buildings in the city (Warrens).
The fact of the matter is that your empire stands out as a strong example of the prior posters "city specialization" cottage economy in which every city has been specialized for production. You may deny it but the facts tell the story. A few specialists do not change that fact.
You do tend to bend the math in your favor I've noticed (double counting Soldiers of Kilmorph hammers and not seeing the problem with it for example). This is another example. I think if you honestly look at your save (I can't look at it right now so I am going by memory) you will have to admit that your specialist usage was almost minimum especially considering how early you researched Mysticism. The almost exclusive focus of your citizens was to work farms and mines (and bonuses). I find calling what was demonstrated there a Specialist Economy or anything but an economy focused almost solely on production unbelievably dishonest.
If you had legitimately run a bunch of specialists throughout your empire, then it wouldn't be a good example to use as the "degenerate production only cottage economy" as it would really be a specialist economy. But you didn't, not by a longshot from what I remember.