What is pop rushing?

[elementgoo]

What is pop rushing? What are some good strategies?

 

[xxaaaxx]

I believe (and someone can correct me if im wrong) "pop rushing" refers to rushing units/improvements with the lives of citizens instead of gold (i know you can do this in despotism, what are the others? Monarchy and Communism?). As for strategy, others can help you, as i know there is a fine balancing act between using citizens to rush key buildings at critical times, and the resulting unhappiness.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Depositism and Communism are the only two govs that you can do this under. Pyramids plus Longletivity allow this to be used a lot more effectively as you can get 4 citizens in the time it normaly takes to get one.

 

[Krayzeenbk]

You can also do this in Feudalism in Fascism (C3C), I believe...
This is the setting called "Forced labor" in the editor.

 

[kb2tvl]

The original civ 3 allowed for more pop rushing of military units and an old strategy was to pop rush units from cities that had lots of food and since the ancient age units were so cheap... you could exploit this to beat the ai early. After the first few patches, this tatic became too problemmatic.

I use pop rushing when I have an over supply of happiness in despostism or I am about to switch governments and I want to have the unhappiness become distributed over the anarchy period or if I want cultural borders to expand a few turns faster.

I also use pop rushing when I am in communism to rush temples and cathedrals in captured cities. I could care less about happiness but I do care about the number of forginers and if I am able to work all tiles possible.

 

[silver 2039]

Originally posted by Krayzeenbk
You can also do this in Feudalism in Fascism (C3C), I believe...
This is the setting called "Forced labor" in the editor.

No in Feudilisim it is paid labor.

 

[ssvensson]

In C3C its Despotism and fascism!

 

[Krayzeenbk]

Not according to the editor, but I have never used Feudalism, so I'd have to defer to you.

 

[Khshayarsha]

I thought "pop rushing" meant to have a Worker or two join a city. The added population works more squares, thereby increasing the shield output. Presumably you had those workers road and mine the additional tiles before joining the city.

I could be mistaken, but I know I read this stratagem somewhere on the CFC forums last year, and "pop rushing" was the term used for it.

 

[Krayzeenbk]

No pop rushing is definetely using population to rush things, although you could add workers to your city to do it if your population isn't large enough to pop rush without them.