Don`t restart!!!
Simple solution turn all you housing labor into Ag labor. Even if you have no Ag infra research you will be able to place more labor in Ag because your labor requirements for housing to max a cluster are very low.
Tax miners and virals
this calculation will be a rough estimate of what you would make with no ag infra research and food @20+
(total land allocated to AG) (multiplied by 10) diveded by 2
example A miner with 50k land allocated to Ag with no infra
50,000(10) = 500,000/2 = 250,000 food per turn
250,000 food per turn at current market prices is $5 million per turn and up. Than when food drops to reasonable levels than convert back to tax based economy. Changing infra does not effect loyalty so it`s little inconvience.
So "tax" based empires there are other options besides restarting . If you can`t beat them than join them and produce food aswell \**/
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AchillesOP