Chronicles of a 6x4 city grid

[Pauly7]

Thanks Patience, for sure.

The bonus is, imagine what the tournament formula is like when you're in chapter 15, but have zero AW levels and total 24 expansions, over half of which are premium.

 

[Pauly7]

My normal city is in chapter 19 and the small is in chapter 15, so not quite a direct comparison, but here is the difference, in province 2 of the tournament...

 

[McBratty]

This is absolutely fascinating! It just goes to show how inefficient our big cities really are when you have gotten this far with such a small space. I really admire your patience and determination! I shall be following this for as long as you carry on!!

 

[Pauly7]

It just goes to show how inefficient our big cities really are

The thing to keep in mind is that the tournament / spire squad size and catering sizes are calculated (to simplify) by looking at number of city expansions * number of researches completed * number of ancient wonder levels. If one or two of those variables is very low (or indeed zero) then the third can really be as high as it wants and the multiplication isn't going to make any costs soar.

If the city size doesn't grow and there are no ancient wonder levels, then if goods production still increases then it should keep all the costs manageably small.

 

[OldHag]

I'm enjoying seeing how you develope your city @Pauly7 - Makes me want to demolish my city and start again for the tournaments. I won't, but I want too.

 

[OldHag]

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...

I do this as the goods decay if you don't use them. How are you for Teleport spells?

 

[Pauly7]

I do this as the goods decay if you don't use them. How are you for Teleport spells?

I have about 60, so it should be fine, even with reduced numbers appearing now, as the whole process will take so long. If I were sensible I should calculate all the goods needed from, say, the factory, and make all those before deleting it then building the atelier, etc etc.

 

[Pauly7]

I'm enjoying seeing how you develope your city @Pauly7 - Makes me want to demolish my city and start again for the tournaments. I won't, but I want too.

It could be a secondary city, like mine. It is pretty quick to race through the first chapters.

 

[Valedoress]

Will have to investigate what that tall white shiny tower thing is.

 

[Pauly7]

Will have to investigate what that tall white shiny tower thing is.

The tall white shiny towers are second place FA rewards.

 

[Jake65]

Random question, what made you decide on 6*4 instead of, say, 5*5?

 

[Pauly7]

Random question, what made you decide on 6*4 instead of, say, 5*5?

I don't know. In its infancy it was 5x4 and I was basically just expanding it a little at a time until I thought I had the right amount of space. A little while later when it came to needing slightly more room, I think it made sense to expand the short side.

 

[Valedoress]

The tall white shiny towers are second place FA rewards.

 

[Pauly7]

The pieces are assembled...

Technically I only have 5 researches to complete with this settlement. It's gonna be a long 5 researches though.

 

[SkyRider99]

The pieces are assembled...

Very artistic. 'Looks great. Are there any streets in there?

 

[Pauly7]

Very artistic. 'Looks great. Are there any streets in there?

The streets are like this...

So I have a plan....

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[SkyRider99]

The streets are like this...

Compact and ingenious!

 

[Pauly7]

Compact and ingenious!

Many thanks!

 

[Pauly7]

Chapter 15 update: I've now reached the point where the portal is upgraded to the max and I don't need to produce any more guest race resources. So I've been able to remove my academy and my factory in favour of a few more seeds producing buildings. The only problem with the rest of this chapter is the brutal amounts of sentient goods needed to complete the researches.

 

[Herodite]

I'm still in awe of this experiment @Pauly7