Why granaries don't work

[Panag]

Originally posted by nbarclay


That, or perhaps better, a "best of" thread could be started with a name less likely to mislead people. Suppose you're a newbie and you see a thread "Why granaries don't work" in the "must read" list but don't actually bother to read it. What impression would you come away with?

Nathan

hi ,

, maybe we could ask the mods to change the tittle

have a nice day

[Theseus]

I can put any title I want on the links...

"Granaries for fun and profit" or "Why granaries work" or "Early build suggestions"....

I think this thread belongs there.

[vulture]

Originally posted by Theseus
I can put any title I want on the links...

"Granaries for fun and profit" or "Why granaries work" or "Early build suggestions"....

"Early granaries: arguments for and against" ?

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by vulture


"Early granaries: arguments for and against" ?

Sounds good.

[Panag]

Originally posted by nbarclay


Sounds good.

hi ,

seconded

a Q , what do most people here do in far away cities where it takes longer to build anything , do you still go granary first there

have a nice day in the granary

[Brizey]

Panag:

I do not build granaries in highly corrupt cities. The extra population adds very little to you overall empire. I will often just build some workers. Courthouse comes first, so that the added population has some effect.

[MrWhereItsAt]

You want to be careful though, Brizey, as in large empires, Courthouses will not help the cities away from your FP/Palace cores very much at all, and according to the Corruption Calculator thread (link in the must-see threads topped in this forum), it can reduce the calculated corruption from over 95% to 95%. Since the max REAL corruption you see is 95%, a Courthouse for production in these cities.

[nbarclay]

Originally posted by panag

a Q , what do most people here do in far away cities where it takes longer to build anything , do you still go granary first there

The trick in the early game is to build the right number of granaries near the capital to fit the amount of land you will be REXing into. Build too few and you won't claim as much land as you could have. Build too many and you're probably wasting shields (and upkeep gold) that could be used better somewhere else. (Of course "too many" could be one if space is cramped and you need to fight an ultra-early war for more.)

Later, around the time of aqueducts, granaries become a priority in the rest of the empire (although courthouses, and maybe marketplaces if there are enough luxuries, tend to be higher priorities). Growing from size 6 to size 12 takes more food than at lower sizes, and cutting the time for that growth can easily pay back the cost of the granary.

Nathan