I Seem to Build Everything Everywhere

[steveg700]

My cities seem specialized early on. My cities founded by a military family get military buildings, my sage cities get science buildings. But eventually, I wind up with strongholds and barracks everywhere, plus courthouses, garrisons, and eventually libraries & academies, and then move on to culture buildings, and so it goes.

They start to feel very cookie-cutter in those respects. Is that just me?

 

[Sephi]

sometimes I focus a city on resources so I do not have much space for urban buildings. For example if the city is the only city in my empire with forests or hills.

 

[Elhoim]

My cities seem specialized early on. My cities founded by a military family get military buildings, my sage cities get science buildings. But eventually, I wind up with strongholds and barracks everywhere, plus courthouses, garrisons, and eventually libraries & academies, and then move on to culture buildings, and so it goes.

They start to feel very cookie-cutter in those respects. Is that just me?

It's not just you, the city building ends up that way in regular maps where you have the space for everything, which is a bit of a shame. Playing on the "Old World" map cities are closer and the terrain limits the placement a lot more.

 

[steveg700]

Right, the building's don't consume anything but material resources, so there doesn't seem to be much reason not to build everything as long as you can keep expanding your resource base, or just expanding your wealth base to keep buying the resources (and Tyranny lets you generate wealth just by maintaining a standing army).

There's some correlation to the ubiquity of terrain which allows resources to amassed everywhere you're allowed to have a city-site. There's not going to be shortages, so you're not going to have to assign some cities to be your farmbelt while and others are mining towns, and then funneling those combined resources into your more urban cities where you have libraries and courthouses.