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I'm coming out of lurkdom with this issue with which I pondered a lot while playing last night. I'm also quite sure that this has been covered here, but since I haven't even lurked here much lately, I haven't read it, and finding the right stuff among all the threads is a bit difficult...
So, the basic question is: How do you normally use your Great Persons? Naturally this is very case dependent, the choice being affected by the game situation as well as which GP is on question. However, do you have some "ground rules" for spending your GP?
Personally I somehow like the super specialists a lot, especially scientific ones in the early game. However, in the latter stages of the game, adding the supermen to the city doesn't seem quite as worth while as in the early game.
I do also save GPs to launch the first golden age, sometimes even the second (in addition to Taj Mahal), but beyond that it seems a waste.
Using the GPs for getting techs is sometimes good, but usually I wouldn't get the techs I want, and sometimes they even would give techs that I definitely don't want yet (ones that, e.g., obsolete some wonder, etc.). I realize that it is possible to plan ahead the tech tree so, that you get just what you want from a GP, but this seems way too restrictive for my playing style.
So, any advice from the experts to the relative newbie here?
Oh, I currently play noble (should probably already step up) with continents, normal speed, and otherwise the default settings.
So, the basic question is: How do you normally use your Great Persons? Naturally this is very case dependent, the choice being affected by the game situation as well as which GP is on question. However, do you have some "ground rules" for spending your GP?
Personally I somehow like the super specialists a lot, especially scientific ones in the early game. However, in the latter stages of the game, adding the supermen to the city doesn't seem quite as worth while as in the early game.
I do also save GPs to launch the first golden age, sometimes even the second (in addition to Taj Mahal), but beyond that it seems a waste.
Using the GPs for getting techs is sometimes good, but usually I wouldn't get the techs I want, and sometimes they even would give techs that I definitely don't want yet (ones that, e.g., obsolete some wonder, etc.). I realize that it is possible to plan ahead the tech tree so, that you get just what you want from a GP, but this seems way too restrictive for my playing style.
So, any advice from the experts to the relative newbie here?
Oh, I currently play noble (should probably already step up) with continents, normal speed, and otherwise the default settings.
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