The Growth Scale

[Dragar]

Old age considerations and maintaining provs at >5k while blood hunting aside, I think growth scales are really a subjective trade-off between current and future gain. Can you grow fast enough from the extra points to justify a death scale? Are you confident of surviving long enough for growth 3 to pay off? It's just personal preference

Personally I like taking growth one quite often, for the old age benefit and because I just hate to see my income base declining - but I know that's a psychological comfort rather than a real advantage, as I am paying for it in design points and could probably be further ahead with another scale in order, luck or production.

Certainly one thing I've learnt is that if you take death 3 you'd better be primed to expand quickly, or you will fall behind.

[chrispedersen]

Also, Abysia suffers a *little* less from death scales.

[Renojustin]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Also, Abysia suffers a *little* less from death scales.

Why?

[OmikronWarrior]

Geez, didn't you read the strategy index? My Growth and Death by the numbers is there.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=35801

As the question itself, when do you get growth? Here's my answer:

1) When you want to pursue a high gold strategy and already have Order-3. Growth and Order are great together.

2) When you plan on recruiting a lot of old age mages.

3) When you plan on doing a lot of blood hunting (not some, but a lot).

4) When you've already taken misfortune, especially if you've picked up Turmoil for whatever reason.

Note, note all of these reasons require Growth-3, just some Growth. However, due to exponential population increases, you get more for your points buying the third point of growth than the first.