Buildling Farms

[Vasiliyi]

I was wondering what everybody else did. Do you build farms higher than the first level? I remember doing it and having a serious problem controlling growth. Is it worthwhile to build them?

[Basileus_ton_Basileon]

They tend to be worthwhile in your 'core' capital regions, philos. Without the distance to capital penalty, the increased population growth is reasonably manageable. Every bit of income helps.

[Sapper]

I always build them, everywhere. Farms bring in extra income themselves but more importantly the increased growth allows for larger markets and mines and trade ports all of which bring in a lot more income. Larger towns and cities do of course suffer from increased squalor but there are many ways to deal with that and I find that to be a lot less important than the increased income.

[Blxz]

I have no problems with cheating to reduce population when cities become insane and I have maxed my garrison capability. I consider it a workaround for a game limitation. For that reason I welcome the early pop growth, although income is virtually worthless as farming values in EB have been reduced significantly.

[XSamatan]

Check MAA's CityMod in the sub-mod section, it manages growth and squalor different than Vanilla and should be worth a try.

XSamatan