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Good things about having few colonies: | Good things about having few colonies: | ||
* It costs less to build all necessary buildings with fewer cities. Every colony should get a Newspaper, a Warehouse, and later some protection. | * It costs less to build all necessary buildings with fewer cities. Every colony should get a Newspaper, a Warehouse, and later some protection. | ||
* You need a lot of roads and wagon trains to transfer the goods between colonies. A big enough fleet of ships to stand in for wagon trains would be even more expensive | * You need a lot of roads and wagon trains to transfer the goods between colonies. A big enough fleet of ships to stand in for wagon trains would be even more expensive | ||
* Fewer problems with the Indians. | * Fewer problems with the Indians. | ||
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Terraform. Conifer/Mixed Forests are very useful for lumber, but most other forests without specials would be more valuable cleared and plowed. | Terraform. Conifer/Mixed Forests are very useful for lumber, but most other forests without specials would be more valuable cleared and plowed. | ||
Conquest can get you some free colonies, but the computer player mismanages them so much that you may actually spend more time fixing the colony (which contains mostly criminals, indentured servants and the wrong specialists, and is poorly located) than building a better one from scratch. Still, it weakens your enemies a lot, so you may want to conquer them just to harm your opponents | Conquest can get you some free colonies, but the computer player mismanages them so much that you may actually spend more time fixing the colony (which contains mostly criminals, indentured servants and the wrong specialists, and is poorly located) than building a better one from scratch. Still, it weakens your enemies a lot, so you may want to conquer them just to harm your opponents. |