I don't know, 30 rifles every 10 turns + whatever else you build tends to close out winning positions pretty soundly, if you haven't already.
Following this thread leads me to a question. What do you do with cities with vast expanses of grasslands, but no rivers? Is this a case where you'd cottage up, or do you just run as many mines/workshops off whatever food tile you happen to have?
I don't know, 30 rifles every 10 turns + whatever else you build tends to close out winning positions pretty soundly, if you haven't already.
I wondered about that too. When don't I care if my rifles get half XP? When no-one else has rifles at all.
A player's development then usually goes something like follows:
1) Beginning. Lots of farms. Improvements built on a whim. Lots and lots of roads.
2) Cottage Economy. Probably with a Financial leader. It's easy to understand. Cottage en masse. Reap the benefits in the ADs.
3) Specialist Economy. You've read a few articles about Specialists, but want to use these more effectively. The system is a little harder to understand, but you start to beeline Masonry, build the Mids, and settle Specialists. With a Philosopical leader, you begin to see what the fuss is all about.
4) Hybrid Economy: lower levels. You know how Cottages and Specialists function. You begin to specialize one (or two) GP farms. You cottage elsewhere.
5) Hybrid Economy: higher levels. You continue to nuance the above. At higher levels, this means fewer Cottages, more Farms, and greater use of the whip. Several cities work the Cottages in the capital's BFC. You understand how, when, and why to build Windmills/Watermills/Workshops. You understand that building Wealth while working a Mined Hill is, after a certain point, preferable to growing a Cottage.
6) Nirvana. (Not really.)
Or when everyone else does, and you have cannons so it literally doesn't matter how many promotions you have....
CR III is pretty useful on cannons!
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CR III is pretty useful on cannons!
I was messing with you when I mentioned CR III on cannons (I knew what you meant obviously). That said, I DO often settle a few GG in the heroic epic city and then let it work on only cannons/arty, if the game is going that long.
SE rarely exists thou, if my Capi has no rivers for cottages but i have stone and Pyras, i often won't build a single cottage![]()