Should I build a Monastery?

[whoward69]

Most games I find Monasteries to be marginal, however, every so often it's a "no brainer!"



(There's another wine out-of-shot behind the Danish Spearman on the left that will eventually come within Osaka's borders)

[Joketa]

The monks are going to be drunk! That is a sweet spot to plop a city. Two iron, two wheat, two rivers and six wine? Did you choose abundant resources, or what?

[whoward69]

It's abundant, but I find even that very rarely clusters 4 of one resource within reach of a city, let alone 6!

I've just built the Hermitage in Osaka (and Denmark is no more, they attacked me once too often!)

[the man of doom]

its always worth because they have no gold maintenance
free culture

assuming u dont need other things like troops

[Gooner]

Absolute no brainer.

That's the best city I've seen for building a monastery. Production will be low, but you should be able to grow the city to a massive size whilst making lots of money and generating massive culture.

I'd be making a beeline for Hermitage and building that ASAP. Unfortunately, the only negative about that city is it's inability to build the Sydney Opera House.

[whoward69]

It maxed out at 204



Which is way short of what you can achieve with Moai

[Magic_Hotdog]

Repeats don't count. Thus Monasteries will only provide 5 culture at minimum, and 7 should you have both wine and incense available to one city. Maybe 3 if you get your goods stolen through a culture bomb.