Golden Era Discussion

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Zen:
That would also take away your order. Hard decision; but I suppose you could. If you did take Sloth 3 (which also impacts your gold flow nationwide, though I suppose you just take Growth to counter it) you also lose your Order 3 and Luck/Misfortune in that production center.

More than likely I imagine I'd prefer getting 21% Gold while still being able to manufacture 10% less (or 30% if you take the big sloth hit).

You could still pick Order+3/Sloth+3 and build castles and stack Skeptics in resource-rich mountain provinces. These provinces usually don't provide as much gold as farmlands (which are usually resource poor), so the income hit here would be pretty minimal I think (eg, say a mountain produces ~50 gold or less, you lose just 21% of that, ie at most ~10 gold/turn - not really a big hit).

Basically it's a trade for 80 design points vs a 4% income loss nationwide, the need to put extra Skeptics in your non-capital centers, and maybe a more difficult start due to the inability to raise troops efficiently early when you're limited to your capital - but to make up for that, these 80 design points might allow you to give more muscle to a SC, for example.