(May 31st, 2013, 12:39)Ceiliazul Wrote: The capital will need more farms forever. Use those spare worker turns on pre-farming some tile(s) adjacent to the cow...
At size 2, working corn/cow, your food count is +6. That's exactly one Sulla Minimum, but not a good total for a capital. You need more food for whips in particular, where 1f becomes ~2h after granary. Even if you don't want to whip much, you need farms for working those riverside grass hills and for growing onto cottages.
And really, "forever" just meant the next ~40 turns. By then you'll specialize your capital as a cottage haven or a production powerhouse with watermills. After that, any farms will get paved over as needed.
Roads and special tiles are more important, but as workers get spare turns (or travel 3 tiles down a road toward far away cities) it's something that's worth doing.