rschissler
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Should you chop a wood or rain forest when it is on a resource tile, whether it be a bonus or luxury resource? Forgetting the city production you get from chopping, but doesn't the tile end up with a yield of one less food?
Should you chop on a resource?
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Rossticles
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I think the best strategy is to chop everything unless it has a resource or is a forest on a river. I don't find adjacency bonuses to be more valuable than a tile improvement.
bladex
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i chop all rainforests and i usually leave any forests and plant more in plains and tundras (don't underestimate tundras) as well as near rivers unless there is a hill than it gets a mine to make mills on them later. but rainforests are pretty much useless always chop them and build other improvements over them instead. leave them until your building a wonder than send in the logging crew!
It comes down to jam today or jam tomorrow, chopping a resource can give a production early on and you get that unit/building/district/wonder a few turns quicker. Could be critical (Holy site?)
I tend to chop everything in ring 1 now, but not until the borders have grown. However if you are going for a longer victory type then a lot of resources might be better to keep.
For me I want more housing so I can make more districts so clearing land can make good sense.
I tend to chop everything in ring 1 now, but not until the borders have grown. However if you are going for a longer victory type then a lot of resources might be better to keep.
For me I want more housing so I can make more districts so clearing land can make good sense.
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I will build a quarry for the eureka then use 2 chops later when my builders have 5 chops.
I will chop some things before that if necessary but 5 chops is better than 3
If there are lots of plains hills around I will chop pretty much everything
If there is only a couple of grassland hills I will be quite selective but I will always chop all resources except horses.
By the time I have 5 chops cows normally can go unless pretty much all grassland
I will chop some things before that if necessary but 5 chops is better than 3
If there are lots of plains hills around I will chop pretty much everything
If there is only a couple of grassland hills I will be quite selective but I will always chop all resources except horses.
By the time I have 5 chops cows normally can go unless pretty much all grassland
rschissler
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Most of you are missing the point of my original post. I'm talking about keeping the resource, but chopping the wood or rain forest it is on. A banana is on a rain forest, a deer is on a wood. Chop the wood/rainforest on one turn, the next turn build the plantation/camp. Or, keep the wood/rainforest it is on because of the extra food or whatever?
ShinigamiKenji
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I usually don't chop it. In the early game, you don't have enough charges to chop then improve (unless you're playing as Monty), so I just improve because those tiles are usually worth working. When my Builders finally get 5 charges, I just don't bother removing the improvement, chopping and then improving it again, it feels a waste of time and charges.
Maybe I should chop if it wasn't improved before my Builders got 5 charges. But by then I don't really care much, and it's still giving me some more yields so I don't lose much.
Maybe I should chop if it wasn't improved before my Builders got 5 charges. But by then I don't really care much, and it's still giving me some more yields so I don't lose much.
If you are feeling brave you could make 2 builders early on
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Ahh, it depends on if there is a hill underneath amd how much food you have alsewhere.
I often leave a 2/2 bana for quite a while, its a +4 tile with no builder.
Rainforest/diamond? Chop
A tile might end up 1 less yield but you have the early chop benefits... If you have great +4/+5 tiles chop away.... If you are in a dull flat area maybe keep.
Benefits of the chop
Tile improvements later
Value of the initial tile
Lay of the rest of the land
They are all considerations
I often leave a 2/2 bana for quite a while, its a +4 tile with no builder.
Rainforest/diamond? Chop
A tile might end up 1 less yield but you have the early chop benefits... If you have great +4/+5 tiles chop away.... If you are in a dull flat area maybe keep.
Benefits of the chop
Tile improvements later
Value of the initial tile
Lay of the rest of the land
They are all considerations
If the luxury needs a camp (truffles, furs), obviously leave it, as they can be placed inside forests/jungle. Otherwise, definitely chop. Chopping provides way too much to waste a single one to make a luxury improvement in 1 turn.
As said above though, I often leave bananas untouched until mid-late game, as a banana in jungle provides a lot for free. However later they suck, so by that point I'll chop the jungle and then harvest the bananas. I almost never actually build a banana plantation.
As said above though, I often leave bananas untouched until mid-late game, as a banana in jungle provides a lot for free. However later they suck, so by that point I'll chop the jungle and then harvest the bananas. I almost never actually build a banana plantation.
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