What's the first thing to do...

[Siptah]

... after founding your 2nd city.

I guess you would probably start with a bakery. And then ? Market first or palace? or perhaps even start making your luxury ressource and the finished good right before these ?

what was your strategy and what might be the best way to do it ?

[Caesar Clifford]

Upgrade your palace

Build L1 of your new good

Upgrade your palace

Upgrade your palace

The more workers the faster the better.

Send bread from your home city to feed them if you can till you have a L3 or L4 palace at least. Send bricks to second city. And other goods needed to upgrade palaces.

Then and only then start on bakery [ your wheat will be growing in supply before you have a bakery.

Then shipyard [ you should have already ensured you had 26 cedar in second city ]. Build one ship as fast as possible.

Don't worry about a market for a while - you have more important things to do first. You can ship your new product back to home town to sell if needed.

Then you have your L4 palace in new city and this can easily be done in less tha 24 hr. You will have a good supply of labour and you can get into the fun of really growing fast for a while.

If you are in a settled nome with a temple and blessings up and running get your temple built as soon as possible. Its not a rush if you are on the frontier.

But of course thats only one mans opinion and I am only ranked 125 so maybe the guru's will tell you different.

[Rama-Seph]

I shipped bricks and food to the city quickly, and built:
- all 5 shops (10 min each, quickly started producing and gave time for more bricks to arrive)
- palace level 2
- exchange (start building ships for return trips)
- palace level 3
- upgrade wheat, reeds, clay, bakery, bricks, etc. to give the new people something to do. This kept my population growing steadily for most of the first day it existed (total of almost 16 hours of population growth) and the city output grew accordingly. The new market was the LAST thing I put in, since my new city was within my old market range and I could see no new nomes from there. If your second is further away, a market is higher priority.

[Siptah]

you forgot renaming it ;)

thanks so far, it might in fact be much better to upgrade the palace first. would you send all workers on raw materials then until you have something else or leaving them doin' nothing for less bread consume and only producing your lux ressource?

[Rama-Seph]

Work them if you can--ship in food if you need to, they don't eat that much that fast. Unless you have no place to assign them (no upgraded buildings/shops) a worker is worth more employed than unemployed, almost always.

[sakasiru]

I upgraded the wheatfield and the bakery some in between the palace upgrades. Simply because all your workers arrive and have nothing to do. That´s a waste :( I needed quite some hours to get jobs for all my little workers that arrived, so maybe it´s better to plan ahead and upgrade a workshop here and there to actually give them something to do as soon as they arrive.

[Torgen]

The palace on my 2nd city just hit level 6, and I *still* don't have a market there! Of course, it's only one nome away from my capital, so I just use three ships at the colony to ship sandals and baskets to be sold.

First thing I did was ship bricks and bread and cedar, upgraded the palace immediately, got the bakery up, a sandal shop next, then the exchange so I could get 2 ships built to send sandals back. I divided the labor: Anything doing with mud, the first city takes care of. The second city does baskets and sandals. (the second city does some bricks for itself now as well, as the brick requirements on upgrades has grown.)

Working on level 7 for the capital while every luxury good except jewelry is in a slump, then will start hoarding for the 3rd city.

[tomnobles]

... after founding your 2nd city.

I guess you would probably start with a bakery. And then ? Market first or palace? or perhaps even start making your luxury ressource and the finished good right before these ?

what was your strategy and what might be the best way to do it ?

You will receive as many answers as people. It's going to depend on how you play & what's best for you.

As for myself it's;
bakery - wheat upgrade - bricks - Exchange - bakery upgrade - bricks upgrade

Then palace and shops and upgrades. Somewhere in the above a market maybe. I didn't build a market in my second city until about palace level 3.

I don't really think there is a wrong or right way.

[Sandra Linkletter]

I plan to start my second city very much the same way as I started my first city. First priority is to feed and house the people, so to speak. Then grow until luxuries are needed, and tie into the world. It will be easier for this city because I have connections now for luxury resources, especially cedar. But the basis of life is bread, and of growth is bricks, and those come from the land and the people. :)

[Eplekongen]

First thing to do after founding your second city? Easy! Do a little jig! Dance, dance, dance!