Question
I've hit the end of the science tree in Civ V, so I want to divert as many resources as possible into other areas (wealth, culture, production etc). I see that you can now sell buildings but if I sell off all my universities, schools, libraries, etc will I suffer any drawbacks?
I know that if I sell these buildings I'll get back some of the effort put into building them as gold, their maintainence cost is removed and their specialist slots are removed (which will cause the AIs to allocate specialists away from Science towards other goals instead) so it seems like an obvious thing to do. But if I do it will it hurt my ability to produce high-tech items such as stealth fighters or death robots?
Answer
No, if you're no longer interested in science production, removing Libraries, Universities, Observatories, Public Schools, and Research Labs should be safe.
You'll lose out on:
- Science production from the buildings themselves and specialists
- Specialist contribution towards Great Scientists
I believe in some iterations of the Civ series there were high-level science buildings that aided in the production of the spaceship for the technology victory, (Civ4 had the Laboratory building, for example) but I don't believe this is the case in Civ 5.
The only other concern is that researching Future Tech counts towards your score at the end of the game, if you're concerned with your score.
If you go this route, make sure you also check and make sure that you're not science focused in any of your cities, and that you aren't producing "Research" anywhere, since those will mean very little if your science production is nearly halted.
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