Given that, how do you make your new territories profitable, instead of dungheaps stuck building temples and courthouses for the rest of the game?
I didn't use to have to worry about this when I played on Regent and Monarch, but I'm starting on Emp so my core cities are not enough to sustain frequent military actions against the AI.
I'm not looking for help in any specific example, rather advice that is good in most situations. I've heard about use of taxmen and scientists, as well as starving the population and then building it back up, but when people discussed these strategies, they mentioned them in passing and in no great length due to the fact that they already understood them. I've also heard about a very powerful exploit called the Palace Rank Jump?
Commence abuse. Presume I know enough to win on Monarch but from that point on talk to me like I'm an idiot, especially when it comes to the finer points of micromanagement. (I still have trouble with Settler Pumps. I'll try to start one only to realize I've failed and frittered away 1500 years doing so.)
I didn't use to have to worry about this when I played on Regent and Monarch, but I'm starting on Emp so my core cities are not enough to sustain frequent military actions against the AI.
I'm not looking for help in any specific example, rather advice that is good in most situations. I've heard about use of taxmen and scientists, as well as starving the population and then building it back up, but when people discussed these strategies, they mentioned them in passing and in no great length due to the fact that they already understood them. I've also heard about a very powerful exploit called the Palace Rank Jump?
Commence abuse. Presume I know enough to win on Monarch but from that point on talk to me like I'm an idiot, especially when it comes to the finer points of micromanagement. (I still have trouble with Settler Pumps. I'll try to start one only to realize I've failed and frittered away 1500 years doing so.)
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