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About all the guides, strats, and comments I've read on this site talked about mining the shielded grasslands(SG) asap, to have the best improvement possible. Further, a lot of worker AI whining came down to that fact that the AI will not focus on mining SG, but go for a checkerboard pattern of mines and irrigations in grassland.
Well, I just started this thread to give my opinion: mining SG is not an advantage after you get out of Despotism, is a small disadvantage when you have RRs, and is... more