8 or 9?
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Topic: 8 or 9?
Posted By: Brids17
Subject: 8 or 9?
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 02:39
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I didn't know where else to put this so I figured I'd throw it in here. I've been asking myself this question for months now and I can't make a decision, so I figured I'd just go and ask other people about it. I can't decide whether or not to go for 9 cities or stay at 8. I know it seems like a pretty simple decision, just go for 9 right? Well, with the food changes I had to drop pop, which set me back 5k-6k pop and then due to money issues irl, I haven't been able to afford to buy more prestige which I'm currently out of. So that's been a little discouraging. Currently I need 41,143 more pop for my 9th city. Without prestige that amount of pop would take an incredibly long amount of time to get. I also have 3 cities running negative food (although it's reasonably sustainable) but without prestige I don't see a point in keeping them there. So I figure I have two options at this point. 1) I could drop pop in my negative food cities, re-balance them and stop at 8 cities. If later on down the road I want to go for 9 cities, I can make an attempt for it. I'm just sort of tired of having unbalanced cities and I don't want to balance them at their current pop knowing that when I get 9 cities, I'll drop pop and end up having to re-balance them a second time. 2) I go try to scrounge together the money for prestige and keep pushing for 9 cities. If I don't got for 9 cities now I'll probably end up dropping my total population by around 10k. That seems like an awful waste of building and prestige to have ended up gaining nothing out of it. So yeah...Halp! -------------  |
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Posted By: The_Dude
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 05:16
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Brids...what feels good to you? Do that. If you change your mind later, OK. I don't think you _must_ use Prestige to grow large.
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Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 07:02
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I hope that you choose the option that gives you the most time to hang around and chat and post on the forum. Because I like seeing you! Personally I find unbalanced cities to be way annoying, but I know it doesn't bother some people. So I say ... do whatever is fun! It's a game! Plus, you are way more gigantic than almost everyone, so the difference between 8 cities and 9 is not as big as the difference between 2 cities and 3, for example. If it's work, then don't do it. Hope to see you around.
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Posted By: Ander
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2011 at 07:18
exactly! you are awesome enough even with 8 cities! ;)
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Rill wrote:Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 20:48
This seems like good advice...*sets off to do as little work as possible* And TD, I don't think I could manage to get 41k pop in any reasonable amount of time with prestige. It's totally possible but that's a lot of time spent. ------------- |
Posted By: liberty6
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 21:21
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personally i would drop the pop but only if i had a way to increase food production.but i would suggest do whatever you want. ------------- whats happened to the world? if intelegent life came to earth is RL would they consider us intelligent or not? probably not!!!! |
Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 21:26
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Wait...now that I think about it, wouldn't not doing work equate to...not doing anything? O_o I can see this going in circles in my mind. ------------- |
Posted By: KillerPoodle
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 21:54
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Suicide a few armies/diplos so you can gain the pop without the food hassles. Grab that 9th city and then demolish a few buildings when you build your armies up again. If you're in negative food production with 11k pop per city then I would guess you're either running pretty big standing armies/diplos or you are not using much food boosting sov. ------------- "This is a bad idea and we shouldn't do it." - endorsement by HM "a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill |
Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 22:54
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You must have misread, I've got negative pop in my cities that are at 17k-18k pop. I can't really afford to suicide any armies either as I'm in a...Let's call it a conflict. I may be able to get the money together for more prestige, I shouldn't need that much if I use it wisely... ------------- |
Posted By: liberty6
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 04:36
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dont forget you can get 1 prestige a day though the daily bonus ------------- whats happened to the world? if intelegent life came to earth is RL would they consider us intelligent or not? probably not!!!! |
Posted By: KillerPoodle
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 05:45
You didn't mention the pop on the cities in neg food prod just that there were three. If you build all cities to 15K instead you end up pretty close to the requirement without food issues and then you can save up the resources and grab the remaining pop needed relatively quickly to hit the 9th city w/o food issues for too long. ------------- "This is a bad idea and we shouldn't do it." - endorsement by HM "a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill |
Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 14:31
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Hmm...That's actually a really good idea. >.> I can probably manage to go a little higher than 15 because of sov spots too, so maybe I can get within 5k or so of the requirement before going negative. Thanks for the advice. =D ------------- |
Posted By: KillerPoodle
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 16:14
np - I did the same a few weeks back (after debating city 9 with myself for a long time).  ------------- "This is a bad idea and we shouldn't do it." - endorsement by HM "a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill |