How Sacred are my Paths? (When to mow or not mow jungle?)

[truenarnian]

I've had a lot of jungle starts lately, and I wonder about Sacred Paths as a pantheon pick. One one hand, getting a bonus to Jungles early is nice, and Jungles can be science pumpers when University hits, but most of the time I find that I want to mow jungle to get more access to food and/or production.

Is it better to Sacred Paths and preserve Jungle?
Or slash and burn?

 

[DaveMcW]

Jungle trading posts are amazing, but you do need a few food/hammer tiles.

 

[kamikazees]

Depends on what you want for that city. I will usually consider removing jungle that is on hills or river tiles (for mines or farms, for example), especially when it is thick jungle and I need production or food. I will generally leave jungle that is on other tiles. Also, I will remove it if I do not care about the city's science production (if no national college, university or observatory, for example).

Jungles are tough early on, but are great once you get education.

 

[Tachii]

I'd cut all/most of them by the river as soon as possible. Civil service's +2 food is way too good to wait for the +2 science later on.

Leave all the bananas/truffles as it is though.

 

[animalguy]

I'd cut all/most of them by the river as soon as possible. Civil service's +2 food is way too good to wait for the +2 science later on.

Leave all the bananas/truffles as it is though.

That's my philosophy when it come to jungles, particulay because bannanas can still provide 4 2 1 depending on what you have built in that city. I also like to chop Jungles on hills because otherwise I find that the cities will have almost no production.

 

[truenarnian]

Jungle trading posts are amazing, but you do need a few food/hammer tiles.

I'm an idiot. I almost always build trading posts on my forests, but I never realized I could build them on jungles too. I've been ignorant of this for two years! Aaaaaaargh.

 

[GThreepwood]

I'm an idiot. I almost always build trading posts on my forests, but I never realized I could build them on jungles too. I've been ignorant of this for two years! Aaaaaaargh.

Yeah, we all know that feeling when you realize something that you never questioned. It's a good thing we have LP's and this forum. Keep discovering new stuff everyone !

 

[Smirk]

If I'm playing a culture game, I don't chop any, not even luxuries. It does hamper growth, helps to have a banana or two. Settle with that in mind, although I'd say perhaps 5-6 is the limit, beyond that you may want to chop to get more useful tiles.

 

[jango76]

Depending on how close your city is likely to be to the front line in any war, you may also want to consider the effect terrain will have if you need to defend it. Chopping tiles close to your city helps force attackers to sit in open terrain where they are more vulnerable, while leaving rough terrain a bit further away from your city can slow approaching attackers and make it more difficult for them to swap injured units out of battle to heal.