I recently discovered, quite by accident, that there's a way to get around the rule against selling two city improvements from the same city in the same turn. I assume many of you already know about this, but for those who don't, here's how it works. Let's say you have 20 cities: cities 1-19 all have the same improvements; city 20 has everything in 1-19 except, say, a port facility. If you go into any city to sell the port facility, you will be given the option to sell all your port facilities; let's say you take this option. Now city 20, not having a port facility, wouldn't have sold anything yet, so you can then, on the same turn, go into city 20 and sell something else -- say, its airport; but you will then be given the option to sell all your airports. Do so, and cities 1-19 will have sold two city improvements on the same turn.

Seems like a cheat to me; opinions?

You get an option to sell all your airports? Is this "all at once" or do you go back through each city one at a time?

P.S. added in Edit - yes - I just checked - Rufus T. states on another thread that he plays ToT..... case closed.
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quote: Originally posted by Blaupanzer on 12-11-2000 01:33 PM I can't imagine, except in the end game, where the choice would have much value. Why would you build X for each of 19 or 20 cities, then sell them all in one turn, other than to sustain high happiness late in the game.

It is an endgame strategy, but for points, not happiness; a couple of turns before landing on AC, I tend to go "shopping" for the wonders I didn't get to build and haven't conquered yet. At that point, I feel I can divest myself of anything that doesn't promote happiness -- grainaries, port facilities, etc. If I had to endure the tedium of selling them city by city, I probably wouldn't bother.

It's also a strategy for getting cash to rush-build a wonder I want; many has been the time that "sell all colosseums" has been clicked in order to beat the AI to Adam Smith's (having already built Mike's Chapel, of course).

Mainly if I am playing a military expansion strategy. If you capture several cities and then realize that you are paying support for cathedrals even though you have Mike's or granaries even though you already built the Pyrimids, it would be really nice if you could just find 1 and then sell them all. Usually I try to sell any extra city advances when I capture the city but with the ability to only sell 1 per turn, it can be easy to forget where you left a stray unneeded building (...now where did I put that granary, I know I had it around here somewhere).

Another time would be if you weren't the first to build Mike's, etc but then captured it later. Instead of having to go to each city to sell xyz, you just pick one and sell them all...

Speaking of which, an even better option would be to click on caths in the advisor screen and then sell them all...

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