(June 24th, 2013, 19:49)Nicolae Carpathia Wrote: Argh why are those deers still not improved? And your workers are building 3F farms.
Fine whatever you want to improve Buick over the capital. In which case, instead of having your workers singly build each farm so both appear +5t after starting, why don't you stack them both so the first is completed +3t after beginning and the second +5t after beginning?
The deers aren't even going to be worked by the capital: John Dodge is going to do so, and the Deer is going to be ready for it basically as soon as it is ready (Will be about a 1-2T delay). You seriously need to chill on the freaking Deer: We didn't improve the Deer due to going for TGL, which required Sailing/Masonry, and the fact we already missed it by 3T means if we ever wanted a shot at it, we obviously could not have wasted 5T or so researching Hunting. The Deer has had pretty much no time it would have been worked: The times it would have, when we DID work the Deer, we lost maybe 1-2T of growth at the most due to the fact we grew so fast AND we frequently whipped down to Size 2: Wherein I would have worked the Fish and Corn over the Deer to begin with.
Now, we're going to be working cottages during our whip cycles to build them up and help our resource, so again: What is the rush on the deer? We had to work our plains hills during The Great Lighthouse building when we did: The deer resource had no use during this time! Yes, I understand tile yields, not avoiding growth to work food tiles and the like, but we simply have not had a use for the +2 food the Deer has produced in comparison to our Worker labor, our goals of TGL (Even if it failed) or our goals of doing things such as double-whipping Settlers.
As for the farms: Worker #2 started it's cottage a turn later, due to Worker #1 finishing it's part of a mine 1T earlier, so stacking the Workers would have made it so we got both farms out 1T later then if we used the Workers seperately, so I decided the best course of action would be to used them seperately.
(Also, as for why we are improving David Buick before the Deer: David Buick massively needs the farms because otherwise it is basically a crap city we founded for copper due to WilliamLP being so close, while our capital can make due without the Deer while the Deer will be improved close enough to John Dodge coming out that it won't matter too much. For reference, John Dodge should be founded in 3T, the Deer should take 4T to camp. So basically, Buick needs farms so it can grow in any capacity (And whip the Lighthouse), other city can make due)