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    I mass-produce workers, send them to the frontier and have the workers rejoin the 1-2 pop cities that are there. Thus I build up the frontier more quickly.

    Is that accurate?
    Not quite. I don't think anyone has any problem with rushing the population growth of border towns. "Pop-rush" is being used to mean sacrificing population for shields. It's avaiable under Despotism and Communism and it allows a _lot_ of units to be built very quickly. A few reasons why some think it's an exploit:

    -In the early game, population growth is much more rapid than production, making the strategy so effective that a player basically _must_ pop-rush if his opponent is going to do it. The potential to force one-dimensional gameplay is considered by many to be a Bad Thing (TM).

    -The AI doesn't seem to use pop-rush very much. Certainly not as much as a dedicated human can. This leads a lot of people to believe that the penalty for pop-rushing is "supposed to be" more severe than it is.

    -The unhappiness which is supposed to counter-balance the effectiveness of pop-rushing is not effective. This is because a temple and/or any MPs in your town create _guaranteed_ content citizens. Even though oppression unhappiness should be causing 35 citizens to be unhappy (for example), if you have a temple and two MPs you get 3 content citizens. This is enough (2 extra) to pop-rush almost any unit or building in the Ancient Age. Also, when you're done pop-rushing and want to switch to a normal production model, you can always abandond the city and rebuild it, effectively trading all the accumulated unhappiness for a temporary population reduction of 1.

    -Population growth is not subject to corruption. Therefore in far-away border towns that would normally produce only a single shield, you can pop-rush your way to happiness and furtune, whereas no other tactic is very effective.
    I'm not giving in to security, under pressure
    I'm not missing out on the promise of adventure
    I'm not giving up on implausible dreams
    Experience to extremes" -RUSH 'The Enemy Within'

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