All the things WRONG with my Garthimi City (1.4k pop)
New player of around 50 hours here. I love this game so so much, thanks Sseth.
So I decided to build a majority Garthimian city for the first time and went in blind. I knew this city was gonna be bad, but looking at it in retrospect, it's really really bad. I already found a million different things wrong with my city but I am just curious what kinda feedback you'll come up with.
At 1k population everything started slowly crumbling. At 1.4k I really fucked up by taking on wayyyy too many Cretonian slaves to manage the agrarian sector.
I started running out of meat at about 1k and never could get production back up to a stable output even with a lot of tech and nobles. For some reason I found it really hard to efficiently implement Balticrawlers, having to rebuild that industry multiple times, until realizing that huge areas under the mountain did the trick way better. Still kind of underwhelmed and confused about how to play Garthimi properly.
Another problem is that I tried to multirace more, to be more efficient about my workforce. A few Amevians in the early game did a good job keeping fish production high and they were easy to segment off from the rest of society.
Little did I know I'd end up with ~150 Amevians at 1.4k total population.
This is my first game on the new patch so I didn't expect minor populations to breed that much out of my control. Needless to say brawls remained a constant problem until I ripped apart my city center to properly separate the incompatibles.
This city ended up outpacing itself. It is not a complete failure, but endless restructurings and mounting inefficiencies led to it stagnating to a point, where it just didn't make sense to continue.
So my question to you SoS-pros: what are the most obvious blunders here?