(January 13th, 2015, 13:54)Mardoc Wrote: I'm actually finding this fascinating. I had a vague feeling that I underestimated the value of GPP, but I never would have guessed even the twelfth is worth generating.
Yeah, that of course always depends on what the other option is. In this case My Finger uses it's last available tile at size 9 and then it has to work specialists in any case, because our other cities + BGN's culture limit are pushing it. If we just could grow My finger onto couple further coastal tiles: Immediate stagnation for one great person at 1200 GPP would already lose the comparison.
Quote:I'm also interested to note that bulbs are quite that powerful; you've got ~50 cities and still can't make a Golden Age more valuable?
Yeah, 51 (!) cities and 400 pop --> our average city size is 8, which means that we are not using all our tiles yet + we have a handful of weak filler cities. You whipped your cities well and many of those + filler cities are still pretty small. And your and Azza's former cities lost/didn't have that many commerce or hammer multiplier buildings so we are a bit behind in that respect. Those are probably the easy reasons if you considered our Golden Age values low and yeah, bulbs scale surprisingly well with pop if you compare them to 3/4-person GAs. That was something I had not previously thought about too. Of course when our Golden Age starts we'll adjust our tile allocations and squeeze still some value out of it, but that does not change the big picture.