Which Would Make A Better GP Farm?

[PimpyMicPimp]

So, I've just taken the Ottomans capital and it is very comparable to my own. I'm wondering which you would think would be a better GP farm and what to do with the other one (e.g. what national wonders in each).

City screen of Istanbul

And of London

I'm leaning towards Instanbul, but I'd like to make sure. I'm attempting my first SE and this is only my third game on Prince so I'd like some advice. I think I always do pretty poorly with national wonders, anyways.

I'll post the save, too, in case anyone is interested.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/116268/ChurchillPrince.CivBeyondSwordSave

 

[Lord Chambers]

Since they both lack enough ground to most efficiently create commerce, and both are equally suited for running specialists, I give Instanbul the nod for having better production capacity, thus should get the palace for Bureaucracy, and London is already creating more Great Person Points per turn, so it should be your GP Farm.

 

[PimpyMicPimp]

Since they both lack enough ground to most efficiently create commerce, and both are equally suited for running specialists, I give Instanbul the nod for having better production capacity, thus should get the palace for Bureaucracy, and London is already creating more Great Person Points per turn, so it should be your GP Farm.

That's what I was thinking, thanks! The game is going really smoothly for me, so far. I was worried, since I spent a lot of time, forests on the Pyramids (no stone) but it's all going well. Now I just need to crush Shaka and I should have the land to win in any way I deem fit

 

[oyzar]

gold iron copper tripple clams? nice bureaucracy city... It also looks like it is more centrally placed than london. London have tons of food so getting great library national and national epic there would work wonders.

 

[CivCorpse]

Heck why choose? I would put the Nationsl epic in London though as well as Oxford and put the Moomoo statues in istanbul. Istanbul Has better production to begin with and one more water tile to be worked. Neither is a great production city however so I would later put Redcross in Istanbul as well to make it your main naval city. As soon as you end the war, get into Caste System as soon as possible. Leave the forests for lumbermills in istanbul and run a buttload of scientists in both cities. And as soon as you research paper research sailing. It doesn't look like you will get a Gs soon enough to help with bulbing education so a lighthouse in both those cities will mean one extra scientist per city. And you need sailing for calnder. For extra food in london and to start dealing with happiness issues. As well as looning health issues in London.

 

[Shadzy19]

Like others have said , London has more food and less production so its a better GP farm .

 

[obsolete]

You don't have to choose between which to be a GP farm. I'd use them both for GP farms.

But what really bugs me in IstanB, why are you slowly building a library? You have 3 important sea tiles that are being worked, and will be worked indefinitely. Yet you failed to have built a cheap lighthouse, which will give you 3+f FREE, indefinitely. That is a big deal at this point in the game.

If you really want that library fast, keep in mind that +3f will grow you to your cap faster, adding more prod but not only that, you can easily whip that library because that +3 food will hardly make the whip hurt you here. So you'll STILL get that library faster anyway.

 

[CivCorpse]

You don't have to choose between which to be a GP farm. I'd use them both for GP farms.

But what really bugs me in IstanB, why are you slowly building a library? You have 3 important sea tiles that are being worked, and will be worked indefinitely. Yet you failed to have built a cheap lighthouse, which will give you 3+f FREE, indefinitely. That is a big deal at this point in the game.

If you really want that library fast, keep in mind that +3f will grow you to your cap faster, adding more prod but not only that, you can easily whip that library because that +3 food will hardly make the whip hurt you here. So you'll STILL get that library faster anyway.

I think he wants the library to run scientist specialist. I agree with you on the whip and he should definately build some lighthouses