(January 14th, 2019, 12:27)superdeath Wrote: Im still uncertain what order most/all island/coastal cities are supposed to go.. is it granary first.. or lighthouse first?
(December 26th, 2018, 13:56)Boldly Going Nowhere Wrote: Also, granary first is most often the first build over anything else except in the rare edge cases, assuming you don't need a worker or military unit or work boat.
You'll need to work out the math for every case to know for sure. But a lighthouse gets you, at maximum, one food per population point. Depending on when the granary gets built, it can get you at maximum 11f for a size 1 city, 12 food for a size 2 city, etc. You want the granary to complete when your foodbox is 50% full or less. So, 1 to 11/22 at size 1 in the foodbox means the granary can save the maximum 11 food so when you grow to size 2 at 22/22 food then the granary has stored 11 food so at size 2 you'd have 11/24 food in the box starting out rather than 0/24. It is virtually impossible for a lighthouse first build order to ever catch up to a granary first. Even if you're ORG and not PRO, and so getting a discount on the LH and not on the granary, I still would go granary first every single time. If you're wrong once or twice out of a thousand city builds you can live with that. To me, that's how big the difference is.