Palace

[Auditor]

Sometimes I start with alot of food in my capital, but I don't like turning it to a gp farm because I like the bureaucracy civic. If I can't found another decent food city is it worth moving the palace to a high hammer/commerce city to take advantage of bureaucracy there, and turn the old capital into a gp farm?

 

[TheMeInTeam]

High food capitols can almost always be turned into commerce cities via cottages, and they're usually quite effective, especially after you put an academy there. What's not to like?

When a GP farm is lacking I will often just prioritize TGL slightly more and put it somewhere I can run the 2 scientists.

 

[Auditor]

Sorry what does TGL stand for?

edit: Never mind it's the great library. Should have thought about it

So your saying it is always good to turn the capital into a high commerce city?

 

[DaveMcW]

So your saying it is always good to turn the capital into a high commerce city?

It's always good if you use the bureaucracy civic.

 

[mystyfly]

I also face this often. Thing is, there isn't only high food - there's either lots of food, spread across lots of tiles (unirrigated rice, flood plains, sheep, ...) and big food surplus cities (irrigated corn, grass pigs, ...).

Usually if I have a city with lots of FPs I cottage it up and leave the palace where it is. It depends on the map though, I rely on what early scouting yields; if there's no high food surplus site I consider moving the palace and use my old capital as a GP site.

If I have a capital with 3-4 high food surplus tiles, I generally move my palace to a FP-site or another nice commerce site and use the old capital as a GPFarm. These are generally very good and as they start with GP generation very early, they usually give me quite a lead GS wise.