Anno 1701 (DS)
ZOMG! I’ve hit a sweet spot! I’m on chapter 11 and have to find three parts of a treasure map. I need to trade with some Indians to get one part and they want Ostrich feathers. Only bloke with Ostrich farms is an enemy so I need to conquer his island. Which means I have to spend upwards of 18K gold on Academy upgrades. Fortunately, though, my civilisation has been engineered to a sweet spot so that the net profit I’m making is sitting pretty stably at 168 gold. So, barring any natural disasters, I should be able to just leave it sitting there for a couple of hours. So – it’s sitting in front of my dual monitors at work, and I save it every fifteen minutes or so. It occurs to me, though, that in the time it took me to build a stable economy I could probably have conquered the bad guy four times over. But that wouldn’t be as interesting.
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