The only somewhat realistic scenario where expansion could speed up your policy gain is in my opinion if you play Songhai because you'll really want the Mud Pyramid and a Monument isn't that expensive. The only cases where it will speed it up are if you either aren't interested in city states and wonders, or if you play a civ with a culture bonus. To sum up, expanding will in almost all cases slow down your social progress.
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The same goes for adding two artists in each city. The Songhai have the excellent Mud Pyramid, so they share the cT = 7 case with France.Standard: cC > 9 or 16, Large: cC > 16 or 28, Huge: cC > 28 or 40 For 9 the same as above is true, but for the case with temples, you will actually gain an increase in policy speed if you don't have at least two city state allies or a city state and a few wonders. The corresponding cC values are 9 and 16. Looking at France, with a monument cT = 4 (true also for Egypt with Monument and Burial Tomb) and with both monument and temple, cT = 7.Then, cC 11, Large: cC > 20, Huge: cC > 28 Now assume we build a monument and a temple, or cT = 5.Large: r_c 4, Large: cC > 8, Huge: cC > 11.It should be noted that, no matter the value of r_c, for large numbers of cities the increase or decrease for founding an additional city will be very small.įor larger maps, this will be a little different. If it's exactly equal to this, the speed will stay the same, and if it's more, policy speed will slow. So if the base culture from city states is less than 7/3 times larger than the typical city culture (let's call this the culture ratio r_c), you will get an increased policy speed from expanding.
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Then calculate t' and check when it gets smaller than t (this would signify an increased policy speed) Let p and c be the policy cost and culture yield before founding the new city and p' and c' be the respective numbers after the founding. When we do the city number increase, both p and c change. 1.5 Will expanding increase or decrease policy speed?.1.4 How do I calculate the total culture in my empire?.1.3 How fast do I acquire new policies?.