Post by Brendone » Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:58 pm
Honestly, I've had the opportunity to have negative scholars before (friends going inactive but willing to keep it up for me, etc) and its usually more work for me then its been worth. The only time it may be more worthwhile is on slower speed worlds (1x resource production). On one world I currently have 137 cities, and can train 49 scholars more. If I had conquered 40 more cities by now, I could be buying scholarships even faster then I am now (1644 scholarships every 2 days). I can train these scholars at any city, and retrain them any time I take losses. Alternately I could have had a friend give me a city with 49 scholars in it and not been buying scholarships - then I could only send scholars from that city (or a limited number of cities), if my enemy snipes the scholars I can't build them back, and because I have so many scholars at one city, they will be more likely to be sniped because the escorts will have to be much smaller.
Honestly, I've had the opportunity to have negative scholars before (friends going inactive but willing to keep it up for me, etc) and its usually more work for me then its been worth. The only time it may be more worthwhile is on slower speed worlds (1x resource production). On one world I currently have 137 cities, and can train 49 scholars more. If I had conquered 40 more cities by now, I could be buying scholarships even faster then I am now (1644 scholarships every 2 days). I can train these scholars at any city, and retrain them any time I take losses. Alternately I could have had a friend give me a city with 49 scholars in it and not been buying scholarships - then I could only send scholars from that city (or a limited number of cities), if my enemy snipes the scholars I can't build them back, and because I have so many scholars at one city, they will be more likely to be sniped because the escorts will have to be much smaller.