MPorciusCatoCivver
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I'm going to reply in detail to this post later.
However I've seen one thing that needs commenting, in fact, the higher the difficulty, the lower your OCN. The base OCN of 28 gets a downside multiplier and so perhaps (IIRC) you get an OCN of only 24 or less on Emperor, even less on higher difficulties. That makes the SPHQ and Communism more important, except of course on the case mentioned but hey Huge Pangea 60% water sid maps are very hard and not that common among players for what I've seen.
EDIT - On Emperor, you get only 80% of OCN, on Deity it's just 60%. That's the correct numbers. So 28 * 80% = 22 cities. Just 22 cities. With FP you get a maximum of 44. Above that it is essential to switch to Commie, Commercial bonus perhaps saves you up to 52-56 cities.
EDIT 2 - Besides, under Republic, I don't have the patience to build Courthouses and Police Statios everywhere. Maybe just Courthouses, but hey, that's not a given or guaranteed. You should take the FP-SPHQ boni alone, because not every corrupt backwater jungle town is going to have at least a courthouse. That's in my experience.
In Commie, it's easier to build such implements by whipping people. But even the ring 6 - 10 and backwater holes get so low corruption (which you're not going to increase unless you try a major sprawl, like you mentioned), it's not worth it to whip citizens to build such stuff in the first place.
However I've seen one thing that needs commenting, in fact, the higher the difficulty, the lower your OCN. The base OCN of 28 gets a downside multiplier and so perhaps (IIRC) you get an OCN of only 24 or less on Emperor, even less on higher difficulties. That makes the SPHQ and Communism more important, except of course on the case mentioned but hey Huge Pangea 60% water sid maps are very hard and not that common among players for what I've seen.
EDIT - On Emperor, you get only 80% of OCN, on Deity it's just 60%. That's the correct numbers. So 28 * 80% = 22 cities. Just 22 cities. With FP you get a maximum of 44. Above that it is essential to switch to Commie, Commercial bonus perhaps saves you up to 52-56 cities.
EDIT 2 - Besides, under Republic, I don't have the patience to build Courthouses and Police Statios everywhere. Maybe just Courthouses, but hey, that's not a given or guaranteed. You should take the FP-SPHQ boni alone, because not every corrupt backwater jungle town is going to have at least a courthouse. That's in my experience.
In Commie, it's easier to build such implements by whipping people. But even the ring 6 - 10 and backwater holes get so low corruption (which you're not going to increase unless you try a major sprawl, like you mentioned), it's not worth it to whip citizens to build such stuff in the first place.
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