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Chronicles of a 6x4 city grid

Pauly7

Master of the Elements
So I thought I would just start talking about my secondary city. I know that some of you don't like so-called "experimental" cities, though I no longer have any particular desire to have increased power by beating the formulas. I am just in a fellowship by myself that has a name you can't pronounce, trying to see how far I can progress through the game like this. At the moment it looks like this:

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I am in the Elementals chapter and will very soon transition to Amuni. I suppose what I am wondering is whether anyone would input into this, given the brief. Would you do things any different? This is going to become more pertinent. In Amuni I will have to add one more manu, because I will need to produce T5. It will be difficult (nay, impossible) to do without losing something.

I could remove my marble manu and see how long I can survive without that. My duck still outputs T1, and remember that the costs of everything are very much less when you have so few expansions and no AWs. Or I could remove the phoenixes themselves, but in doing that I will lose population so it won't allow me to build a manu.

As it stands I have 77 expansions that I have not placed (not including premium expansions). That's quite a weird thought. I have no military in my city at all, but these days I actually fight a fair bit. Even with zero buffs to my fighting, with no AW levels and next to no expansions, fighting is surprisingly potent up to a point. It's only possible with all the free troops and troop instants that constantly appear. Albeit there is no way to see how many troops I have at any given time!

Anyway, this is only for the sake of conversation... and advice, if I am lucky.
 
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Pauly7

Master of the Elements
So an update in the chronicles of a 6x4 city grid. I have now, against all odds, made it as far as the constructs chapter with this same footprint. Currently it looks like this:

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I think I can make it out of The Constructs chapter. It may take some time, but the portal isn't going to grow, I don't think, and I can upgrade it with portal profit instants. However as soon as I step into chapter 15 that will be the end of the road, unless anyone has any bright ideas for me.

I currently have 87 unplaced expansions, not counting premium ones!
 

Pauly7

Master of the Elements
Yeah I could park it in chapter 15, but in that chapter there is no way to upgrade the portal without building the supporting buildings around it. You can do it a piece at a time. This is what I needed to do in S & D, i.e. I had the campus then only had space to keep one of the other buildings out at a time.

However, this won't work anymore, as I already need to have all three types of sentient manus. I guess it may be possible to only bring out manus as I need them and only keep out guest race supporting buildings as I need them... but Ch.15 will be nigh on impossible with this footprint, I think.

The other twist is that I am not in a fellowship, so I am not winning any blueprints or RRs. This makes upgrades difficult, and limits the numbers of teleport spells I can get. I think I have about 60 and they will disappear very quickly if I am constantly moving manus around.
 
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