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Here’s an interesting little problem I’ve got. The combination of having happy resources and high food is once again stretching the development of poor Stalin. Approaching 1000 BC, his basic research is no better than it was in 4000 BC. Also, the high food is becoming somewhat of a curse since any whipping outside the capital automatically limits the population of other cities to two and forces me to churn out yet more workers thus adding to unit costs. Cottage spamming is hardly an option since I won’t have the population to work them. And being on a Terra map, I have no room to expand except in the Tundra and Ice around the capital.
Having built Stonehenge and Oracle, the capital is well on the way to generating a Prophet so there may be a way out on the happiness side through religion. I will still need to research Polytheism and Monotheism to open up Theology and these will take some time – I struggled to get Pottery (10 turns) in time for the Oracle to grab Metal Casting.
After religion, I guess the next route for Happiness would be via Monarchy which would then give my many warriors something to do and all me to build an army of Axemen for stage three of the solution.
On the cash side, I am deliberately using the Industrious trait to build wonders which I don’t really need. St Petersburg already has 130 hammers invested in The Great Wall and getting Polytheism will be useful since I will then also get the Marble bonus on Parthenon/Temple of Artemis. Meanwhile, Moscow can now build The Colossus – a wonder which I would normally not build because it always used to be outside my preferred tech path. Unfortunately this, and the planned engineer in my capital are likely to dilute my Prophet points so I may end up with a Great Engineer, which I would be quite happy with, or a Great Merchant, which I would not.
Overall, quite a weird situation and one that seems to leave me with lots of Wonders simply because I have had nothing better to build.
But I can't help thinking that this is all wrong. Stalin should be out there inflicting misery on his neighbours, not sitting at home orchestrating huge publics works programmes.
So what do others do when they have too much food and no sources of happiness/gold?
Having built Stonehenge and Oracle, the capital is well on the way to generating a Prophet so there may be a way out on the happiness side through religion. I will still need to research Polytheism and Monotheism to open up Theology and these will take some time – I struggled to get Pottery (10 turns) in time for the Oracle to grab Metal Casting.
After religion, I guess the next route for Happiness would be via Monarchy which would then give my many warriors something to do and all me to build an army of Axemen for stage three of the solution.
On the cash side, I am deliberately using the Industrious trait to build wonders which I don’t really need. St Petersburg already has 130 hammers invested in The Great Wall and getting Polytheism will be useful since I will then also get the Marble bonus on Parthenon/Temple of Artemis. Meanwhile, Moscow can now build The Colossus – a wonder which I would normally not build because it always used to be outside my preferred tech path. Unfortunately this, and the planned engineer in my capital are likely to dilute my Prophet points so I may end up with a Great Engineer, which I would be quite happy with, or a Great Merchant, which I would not.
Overall, quite a weird situation and one that seems to leave me with lots of Wonders simply because I have had nothing better to build.
But I can't help thinking that this is all wrong. Stalin should be out there inflicting misery on his neighbours, not sitting at home orchestrating huge publics works programmes.
So what do others do when they have too much food and no sources of happiness/gold?
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