Should only take 5 days to do japan settlement when maxed on multiplier as also applies to negotiations. But even if takes 7 days, the SoKs and dojos and 50fp u get from finishing +the other fps you gain from the quests lines would be much more rewarding. you looking at 1,250fp just from the 50fp reward at the end alone, 1500 counting the other quests. And the +fp you get from buildings like dojo and SoKs that you will have up without waiting long. Seems like a no brainer to me. I believe it be 8 SoKs total completing it 25 times. As FP being the key to progressing you gain way much more this way and be the smart thing to do till your up in GBs and such then can start do more long term goals, but by then u would not be a new player.
Honestly there's so many ways to make FP these days that min-maxing it is not worth worrying about as much as it used to be. My last city I started a couple years back I was constantly pressed to find space to squeeze in more terrace farms, so yes space efficiency is a consideration right away. Now yes a dojo is a step above that - but it's entirely likely that those dojos are still pushing other slightly less useful things (like terrace farms) out of your city such that aiming for buildings that will last rather than incremental improvements to spam your city with does make sense while using the stuff you're going to win anyways to fill in space.
In terms of the raw FP - an egypt run makes 65 FP - so 650 over the 10 runs. Plus 2 new emissary slots and 1 new FP emissary I didn't include before.
SoKs are even more outdated buildings than dojos that are just stop-gaps til you get better stuff.
Could someone keep pressing Japan rather than diversify? sure. Who would be further ahead between the two? Probably whoever tries harder at other stuff. We're talking 5ish FP a day here over that kind of duration and maybe 2 GB levels worth of difference over that whole time. A gap easily made up and exceeded by doing more GE, doing more quests, sniping more GBs, doing more GBG, focusing on the right GBs rather than building everything under the sun and leaving them at low levels, etc.
Given that I would definitely opt for having the more longterm bonuses (i.e. the main rewards from the settlements) solidified rather than have fretted over the chump change for 6 months, have a bunch of buildings I was looking to delete as I get event rewards anyways, and still having to go back to get Yggdrasil and the bathtub which are still top-tier but I hadn't even started on.
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Now after the main runs, I share your concern that Egypt may not be lucrative enough but 1 really great building is a much better time investment than 5 middling ones, whatever phase of the game you're in.
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