Most Useless Policy Card

[Grothee1]

Another great thing about pillaging is that it's a great way to get border cities to loyalty flip to you so you can avoid warmonger penalties. If a city is starving and/or unhappy it gets significant loyalty decreases.

 

[OmegaDestroyer]

Tear down the walls, capture their workers, pillage everything, kill their units, and then laugh at how quickly the city flips.

 

[Japper007]

All the varieties of the +housing/+amenities cards. Used to use these a lot, then I found out that pop doesn't matter at all beyond 7 or so, which is easy to reach with just improvements and easily satisfied with just luxuries. There are just so many better cards to place in the highly competed economic policy slots. On top of that they often obsolete at inoppurtune moments, suddenly hitting your bloated cities with massive amenity problems, bonus points if you are already under enormous War Weariness when they do! An extra loud shout-out to "New Deal", that card should just say: "do you want to completely tank your economy, for little to no benefit (this late in the game)? Slot me!" What a shameful way to represent one of the best and effective economic plans in US history...

 

[criZp]

All the varieties of the +housing/+amenities cards. Used to use these a lot, then I found out that pop doesn't matter at all beyond 7 or so,

You do need 10+ pop in order to get full use of the "extra yields from buildings" cards

 

[Melliores]

The New Deal policy actually boosts your economy really, really good. It costs 8 gold per city, however the 2 amenities can give you the Ecstatic boost, which is +10% to all yields. On a coastal city with a Seaport you get +3 gold per coastal tile, and on some luxuries you get up to 5-6 gold.

That 10% quickly adds up in a big city and can easily pay up for the 8 gold maintenance. With that card in and without Globalization my economy went from +700 gold to + 1500 gold per turn on a Large Archipelago map with the Netherlands. I did have a few polders here and there (not modded).

The main trick to that card is to grow your population up to its Housing limit, so you will need some extra food. The extra pop will just double your economy and production.

 

[isau]

I really disagree about Public Transportation being useless. It's not a long term policy I'd want to keep around, but for immediate fundraising it's pretty nice.

That policy is basically like: "I need to raise 800 gold asap!"

Solution: Drop 4 Neighborhoods on top of farms. Doesn't matter if you ever complete them, the gold payout (200 gold for Breathtaking) is immediate. I suspect there is also a way to extremely abuse this policy in the late game where farms are much worth less than a huge immediate cash grab.

 

[Disgustipated]

What a shameful way to represent one of the best and effective economic plans in US history...

Economic policies which really lead to the bad economic times of the 1970's. Oh yes. Even Obama knew better than to go away from Reaganomics. I'd make a case that Roosevelt's economic policies extended the Great Depression which only the war brought us out of.

That said, I do use this policy because until I get stadiums up, I need the amenities. And I often just keep it because I want the housing. I like big cities. They look pretty.

 

[SammyKhalifa]

Economic policies which really lead to the bad economic times of the 1970's. Oh yes. Even Obama knew better than to go away from Reaganomics. I'd make a case that Roosevelt's economic policies extended the Great Depression which only the war brought us out of.

Yeah we should have kept Hoovernomics. :/

I usually use New Deal, but something took a wrong turn in my last game and I was really cash strapped.