Settlers & workers during GA

[NickyH]

I tend to build slightly less workers and settlers during golden age, compared to what I would have built if I wasn't in GA. Food is the only resource that doesn't get a boost from GA, and all the citizens that are turned into workers or settlers feel like wasted bonus shields and gold.

So I focus a bit more on city improvements and military units during GA…

Right now I'm playing my first game on Deity level, and I have my golden age. There's still land to settle, so it feels like I'm doing the wrong thing when I'm skipping a couple of settlers in order to grow my cities above size 6 (troop support) and build libraries for culture and science.

So what are your thought on this? I realize that you probably make different choices depending on the situation in the current game.

 

[Ringo Kid]

I set citizens to produce max beakers during a golden age, and have the cities build whatever new improvement the techs I get during a gold age allow. Or perhaps a new military unit if I am at war, which is often the trigger for the Golden Age.

 

[capnvonbaron]

I almost always play with the max allowable rival civs, thus most (if not all) available terrain is typically settled already.

If I'm unfortunate to pop a GA at a point in the game way too early for my liking, I will mostly spam out military units and just run over my nearest neighbor. Then I hurry/whip workers from the captured cities once the resistance is crushed. I find that far more productive than producing my own settlers/workers in the core cities.

 

[ecuwins]

If it's a despot GA then it's usually offensive units.

An early non-despot GA will typically be markets, libraries, and aqueducts(if applicable) in my core, a granary or two in my 2nd-3rd ring(I am shifting settler factories out from the core so the core can grow to size 7+), with the other cities building offense.

A Knight class initiated GA tends to be, yet again, offense. Rush, rush, rush the enemy!!!

 

[ace_3399]

I use my Golden Age to help speed up my expansion. Its good to have lots of land.

 

[AutomatedTeller]

One nice thing about a GA is that mediocre cities with foodbonuses can produce settlers/workers while the infrastructure grows.

 

[The Professor]

Ideally, I prefer to hold off my GA until A) I'm in Republic B) most of the available territory is settled. Then, I can use my GA shields to build infrastructure and military--usually a combination of both. When I have to take a really early GA, I will try to have one or two settler/worker factories--although they can be really hard to micromanage during a Golden Age--and have the rest of my cities building infrastructure/military.