can use more food to run specialists and make them pay via great person generation.

can use more food to downshift tiles from food production tile improvements (farms, windmills) to commerce or hammer improvements.

needs more food to work low-food tiles (i.e.

needs culture (to push borders, or if going for cultural win).

It produces food and culture, so you'll want it in any city which: It also takes many resources, including seafood resources which tend to be numerous on most types of maps. The only cities you should not spread Mining to are your culture cities (if you are going to try a cultural win), and to your Wall Street city (if you plan to found lesser corps for spread to the AI). Every city can use more hammers, without exception. Why are these two corps so great? Well, Mining Inc uses many resources and produces only hammers it is great in every city you own. Found these two as soon as you can, and spread them to most of your cities.

are the two most powerful corporations, Sid's for food, and Mining for hammers. There is also nothing forbidding you from invading other civs to take the resources that will allow your corporations (and, by extension your entire empire) to thrive.įound Sid's Sushi and Mining Inc. But even at that price, they are well worth buying if you have Mining Inc spread to many cities. Strategic resources (iron, copper, etc.) go for considerably more-12 gold/turn or so. In general, AIs seem to charge 3 or 4 gold/turn for non-strategic resources, although the first one you buy from a given civ will be a bit more. Most AIs will sell you extra resources quite cheaply once you have a corporation that uses them, so check each AI to see if it is friendly enough to trade you resources, and how many of the ones you want most (sushi, rice, metals) it has. Outside of some very specific circumstances and strategies (which will be covered), you'll always want to do the following.ĭo not let the resources currently available to you be the main factor in your choice of what corporations to pursue use the entire map to make that determination. There are a couple of things that are 99% guaranteed to be beneficial with regard to corporations.

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