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Why do we have to go over this again. The SE is crap, and a waste of time. In order to have a strong empire you need to make use off all forms of commerce/beakers/gold. The Hybrid economy, and the hammer economy are by far the best, and there are no questions about it. The SE, and CE are traps for newer players who don't understand the game as well. |
i tend to prioritize pottery in the tech tree, especially if i have food plains. If i have plenty of workers, i throw up cottages in almost every city except ones i have plans for like a gp farm or a production city. More often than not though, i cottage the crap out of cities, and it seems to work ok...
especially when im founding cities just to gain % land, or a resource, the cottages seem like the only thing to do in certain situations as workshops are not available yet, and would suck even if they were available. so jungle areas with gems and no food resources always get cottaged, and i dont feel like an idiot when i do it, but perhaps i dont understand his comment...
my point is, the vast majority of my worked tiles are cottages, unless its a city with plains hills, or lots of food resources, it generally becomes a cottaged town.
caste system comes to late, by that time im already winning, and you dont need to run a specialist economy to get great ppl, also... needing the mids is sort of a gamble.
thoughts?
I just want to reiterate though.... I feel like if most towns are working 4 or 5 cottages each.... then its a cottage economy, even if i pump out 15 gp's before 1700ad, if most of my cities are cottaged, i find it hard to call it a hybrid economy.
also im not sure if i understand what a hammer economy is, unless he means constantly setting production to research or wealth