What's Cottage Spam?

[jerVL/kg]

I've read the term "Cottage Spam" in some these threads and some walkthroughs, but never anything explaining it. What does it mean?

 

[Ledneh]

Basically, building Cottages everywhere possible, potentially at the sacrifice of other improvements. It makes a city that can work all of those cottages into a commerce-generating machine.

 

[LordTerror]

Basically, cottage spam is putting lots of cottages arround cities, instead of a good mix of improvments. Playing a financial leader is usally assumed when doing this.

The point of it is to make the cities pay for themselves. If the cities pay for themselves, you can have as many as you want!

 

[Wodan]

It's like cottage cheese, but made of a variety of meats. Very salty.

Wodan

 

[DeyofAlgiers]

Is cottage spam allowed in the GOTM games???

 

[TripleGemini]

Why wouldn't it be? It's a legitimate move in the game... To be honest, I like to have at least one cottage/commerce heavy city, so I can afford cities with higher mantainance costs.

 

[Reinhard]

Seriously, "cottage spam" should be referred to as "cottage cheese", it's too great an opportunity to waste!

 

[FenrysWulf]

This term just annoys the heck out of me.