IP Man wrote:britishmusketeer wrote:IP Man wrote:Ports basically get bigger vill shipments than other civs, and still nobody realises that.
Instead of sending 5 vils, they can send 700food and make 7 vills instead of 5. They will also get build bounty for that.
In age 3, they can send 1000 food which is equal to 10 villagers.
If they make normal vills from 1 TC and army from barracks/stable while using the 700food and 1000 food shipment to make vills from other civs they can be top civ, but still nobody realises that because everybody is expecting that they will get free vills from the TC, and everybody keeps sending 700 coin while all 20/25 vills are on hunts and you expect that there will be enough hunts...
Except that the vill shipment arrives instantly and doesn't require the tc(s) to be idle for 3 min.
Thats why they get more TCs and they get more vills, so they can catchup with gathering vs the 5 vills who have arrived instantly.
Also, lets not forget that half of the civs who have 5 vills shipment have a slow age up option in which they miss 4 vill batches.
The thing is that the vills are valuable at 6 min, whereas at 9 min when you finally catch up in vills, map control becomes more important than who has the most vills. You will be making vills constantly regardless so shipping 700f is just throwing away vill seconds unless you have no hunt.