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  • #16
    As for priority of clearing jungle in an existing city, it depends heavily upon much much jungle is in the city raidus of it.

    The city surrounded by jungle needs it cleared much faster than cities on the edge of a jungle that can work other tiles.
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    • #17
      A lot depends on where you are in the game. If it is a mostly corrupt town and you are well into the game, you do not have a big need to clear it. It is just something you do as workers permit.

      Earlier, the town can be productive, so it the need is greater.

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      • #18
        Several stacks of slave workers clears jungle in no time. And road after you clear as it does save turns. However, I wouldn't waste my good workers on clearing jungle, unless they had nothing else productive to do. Being an industrious civ certainly does help.
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        • #19
          I do not like to leave empty spaces, so I will usually found cities throughout jungle areas, but often their first 2 or 3 build orders are workers, often even before defenders, so that I have the workers to clear the jungle, and road, mine and irrigate. If I get attacked and lose some undefended towns, it is no great loss, as they stay at size 1 in this initial period, no one gains a town from me, it can only get razed. Being very poorly defended, or undefended, there is no maintainance cost or unit costs until later gov'ts are achieved, and by then they may have been able to grow and become contributors to the overall economy anyway. But other more suitable terrain will be settled first.

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          • #20
            not really an answer to your question, but something to bear in mind regarding jungles.

            i find harbours can come in very handy if you have access to the coast and a lot of jungle to clear. go ahead and found lotsa coastal cities in the jungle. then build harbours in those cities.

            that way, you can continue to feed the populace and (most significantly) continue to grow. ok, so you get no shields from working coastal squares, but you do get plenty of cash, so you can keep on rexin' and needn't fall behind in research. then, when you have workers to spare, clear the jungle at your leisure.
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