City Management

[darrelljs]

Originally posted by sooooo
Which other tile should we work next turn?

I would work a grassland forest next.

Darrell

[mostly-harmless]

Working the wine tile would increase science by 20% plus provide an additional hammer for the cost of -25% growth rate.
We can work that tile until the copper mine is finished.

mh

[sooooo]

I agree with Darrell in working a grass forest.

[sooooo]

Hmm, working the grass forest gets BW in 3, growth in 6 and warrior in 4. Working the wines gets BW in 2, growth in 7 and warrior in 4.

[ruff_hi]

I vote work the wines for 2 turns and re-assess after that. Are we starting a settler after the current warrior finishes?

[Zeviz]

I also vote for the wines. (The sooner we know where copper is, the better.)

[darrelljs]

[SIZE=1] (The sooner we know where copper is, the better.)

Why? Its not like we have a Settler lying around or anything. I still think 1 food >>> 2 commerce at this point in the game.

Darrell

[Kylearan]

Hi,

Originally posted by darrelljs


Why? Its not like we have a Settler lying around or anything. I still think 1 food >>> 2 commerce at this point in the game.

I agree with Darrell.

-Kylearan

[Sullla]

Since there seems to be some discussion on this issue, I will weigh in with grassland forest over plains wines. 1 food is indeed better this early on than 2 commerce, IMO.

[Zeviz]

I guess it's no longer an issue since we've already told Temlpars about horses. I just want to know as quickly as possible who has metals and who doesn't. So either grassland or wines would be fine for me.

[sooooo]

The mine is finished, but I kept working the grass forest since I was assuming that we would be building a settler at size 3 and want to get to that size asap. At size 3 we can have 10 production and I think we can afford to make 4 warriors before a settler instead of the proposed 3. Warriors only cost 15 hammers.

[Zeviz]

If we have copper near the capital, I'd start on Settler right away, and switch to axe once the copper is connected. (A single axe is a better deterrent than 2.5 warriors.)

[sooooo]

We will grow in 1 turn to size 3 no matter what tile apart from the cows that we work. If we work the plains mine we get the warrior in 2 turns rather than 3 (my favoured plan). Or is overflow food more important?

Are we agreeing to stop at size 3 to max production and build a settler? With only 1 food tile and an already build mine, building it naturally (well, with a chop) seems better than going to size 4 and whipping the settler.

[Zeviz]

I'd put in a settler for a turn to avoid wasting worker's time. I think a turn of worker's actions is more valuable than a turn of city working a 1/2 tile. (If the worker finishes mine a turn faster, we'll recover the unit of production we'll lose by delaying city growth.)

[mostly-harmless]

Agreed on getting a settler out at size 3 and after the current warrior is built.

mh