jnebbe
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I'm trying SE for the first time and I'm having a couple problems.
To my understanding, you make as many farms as possible, then work those farms and use the remaining citizens as scientists to get your beakers. Then you can lower your research slider to 0 and use that gold for unit maintenance and buying techs from other civs. I also had the impression that I should never make cottages. Idk if this is completely accurate but that's what I was trying to do.
1: When should you start using only scientists? I started once I had 5 cities and a couple had libraries, otherwise researching would be way too slow.
2: What should you do with new cities, both for ones you build or capture? It takes a while for them to get their pop up and build libraries.
3: What buildings should I build? I know libraries and I assume universities+observatories later in the game? What about markets and monasteries?
4: Are you supposed to build zero cottages, or just prioritize them much less? In my game I was barely gaining gold and sometimes even losing gold at 0. It makes me think you'll need cottages anyway for commerce, otherwise your commerce will be so low there's no point in putting slider at 0.
That being said it's going very well since it's only noble, but I feel like I'm not doing it right.
Attaching my save file. Basically I had a huge lead early game after getting stone hedge and oracle. Went to war with roosevelt a couple of times and now I just made peace with peter and am going to rebuild army for another attack. Still defenitely in the lead but I feel like I'm researching so slow; mansa musa has surpassed me on research.
Thanks
To my understanding, you make as many farms as possible, then work those farms and use the remaining citizens as scientists to get your beakers. Then you can lower your research slider to 0 and use that gold for unit maintenance and buying techs from other civs. I also had the impression that I should never make cottages. Idk if this is completely accurate but that's what I was trying to do.
1: When should you start using only scientists? I started once I had 5 cities and a couple had libraries, otherwise researching would be way too slow.
2: What should you do with new cities, both for ones you build or capture? It takes a while for them to get their pop up and build libraries.
3: What buildings should I build? I know libraries and I assume universities+observatories later in the game? What about markets and monasteries?
4: Are you supposed to build zero cottages, or just prioritize them much less? In my game I was barely gaining gold and sometimes even losing gold at 0. It makes me think you'll need cottages anyway for commerce, otherwise your commerce will be so low there's no point in putting slider at 0.
That being said it's going very well since it's only noble, but I feel like I'm not doing it right.
Attaching my save file. Basically I had a huge lead early game after getting stone hedge and oracle. Went to war with roosevelt a couple of times and now I just made peace with peter and am going to rebuild army for another attack. Still defenitely in the lead but I feel like I'm researching so slow; mansa musa has surpassed me on research.
Thanks