Industry New Best Virtue?

[RedRover57]

Eudamonia is still the bomb with Magnasanti a close, close second, imho.

Or, why not get them both? Prosperity to the free settler, Industry to the "Rome" virtue, back to Prosperity to Eudaimonia and then Industry to Magnasanti, which comes at a time when you finally have a decent number of cites and buildings to make it count. You struggle with unhealthiness for a while, but it reverses mid-game. And you may not even need to build the later health buildings, saving production/energy for other things. It seems to be working pretty well for me in a peaceful (so far) 6-city Apollo game on a continents map.

 

[silvertuerk]

IMO the free colonist is invaluable. Any strat that does not involve getting that colonist as soon as possible is not competitive.

1. Some people tell that going all-in for Industry is also viable. Seems especially reasonable for Polystralia because of Trade Route bonuses.
2. Going for free colonist seems especially strong for Barré Artists.
3. If I were trying PAC, I would suspect that going for the Espionage and Might covert ops bonus could be a highly dangerous alternative because of Steal Tech and Coup.
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