What's your luxury slider strategy?

[Zachriel]

For general use, I set the luxury slider to 0%-20%, depending on the availability of luxury resources. But it all depends on the situation.

In Cleopatra, Queen of Thebes, the luxury rate climbed to 30% as the population of Thebes grew to accomodate all the workers for the Great Pyramids. As soon as the Great Pyramids were completed, Thebes started producing Settlers to relieve the crowding and luxuries returned to 10%.

http://www.zachriel.com/gotm9/bc1000-Pyramids.htm

 

[hbdragon88]

Originally posted by Arathorn

Entertainers are almost always a idea. They have a place (especially in corrupt cities) but other specialists or other ideas are almost always smarter.

My 37 yen,
Arathorn

Entertainers are great. Much better than Specialists or Tax Collectors. One time I was playing around with one citizen, making him an entertainer, then to the other two. For some odd reason then there were two unhapy citizens.

What do they all do (citizen-wise)? Entertainers make one unhappy content or one content happy, and that Tax collectors add one gold at the cost of a happiness of citizens...

 

[InfStack_]

Lux Slider? Well it only moves if I need to keep the War Weary workers in a democracy hanging in their until I polish off some hapless civ (like the Romans).

Psstt... pass the guy a beer..AND THEN BACK TO THE IRON QUARRY HE GOES!

 

[kb2tvl]

I just wanted to add. If you have too many entertainers, your city will starve. If you have all your people working, your cities will increase in size. This will, in the end, give more production all the way around.

 

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by kb2tvl
I just wanted to add. If you have too many entertainers, your city will starve. If you have all your people working, your cities will increase in size. This will, in the end, give more production all the way around.

I see what you mean.

http://www.zachriel.com/gotm8/ad1844-TwoCapitals.htm

 

[hbdragon88]

Yeah, but it'll never fall below 1. In 1 city I made them all entertainers because they were English citizens and were all unhappy. But when the pop was 1, the last citizen turned to a citizen instead of an entertainer.