danaphanous
religious fanatic
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I often find myself neglecting gardens as there are so many things to build early until the medieval that directly affect production, growth, science, and culture. However, recently I've been wondering if that is hurting me. That's a lot of turns the effect could've been applied earlier and an early GE or GS is amazing.
What would inform my decision is knowing the mechanics a little better. 25% boost to generation is very nice, but usually your only source of people (exception the writer city) early is the one or two wonders you snagged, usually resulting in only a solitary point (in my case 1 point usually on immortal from something like pyramids or Oracle). So, my question is this, does that 25% boost actually benefit the solitary point or is it rounded down so it only affects the accumulation after you get at least 2 points? If it is rounded down I think my strategy is fine. I might build one in the writer city but doesn't matter beyond that.
If it does make those early 1 points faster though I've been missing out. Does anyone know the math or want to defend an early garden in a city with a single GP point like from pyramids? I'm too lazy to play this out in a practice game lol as I've passed that point in my two current games.
What would inform my decision is knowing the mechanics a little better. 25% boost to generation is very nice, but usually your only source of people (exception the writer city) early is the one or two wonders you snagged, usually resulting in only a solitary point (in my case 1 point usually on immortal from something like pyramids or Oracle). So, my question is this, does that 25% boost actually benefit the solitary point or is it rounded down so it only affects the accumulation after you get at least 2 points? If it is rounded down I think my strategy is fine. I might build one in the writer city but doesn't matter beyond that.
If it does make those early 1 points faster though I've been missing out. Does anyone know the math or want to defend an early garden in a city with a single GP point like from pyramids? I'm too lazy to play this out in a practice game lol as I've passed that point in my two current games.