Quote Originally Posted by barbrolie View Post
I've been reading this thread, and I think this quite hasn't been answered: can someone help? For a human/sage in a ghetto, what is a good build going into war? And what is the appropriate set of buildings to upkeep if chained? And if not chained?

And how is that different for a Human Merchant?
Simple answer is about the same as the merchant build, human is human. In big ghettos activity is key so as long as your active a basic build is fine.

Digging a bit deeper at a bear minimum your going to end up being different in that once u get decent science you'll run libraries. Build 1% for each 100 bpa once you reach 500 bpa. Your aim will be for between 5-15% thus 400 bpa~0 lib, 500 bpa =5% 1000 bpa =10%, 1500=15% 2500=15%. In addition as you have a better science you can probably draft a bit higher and thus will have larger military and higher raw/mod tpa's. There's more to it too but this will start you off nicely.