Is creating a corporation worth burning a Great Merchant?

[afadel97]

Is creating a corporation worth burning a Great Merchant?

[Aachen]

Depends on the corporation and the GM.

[PhailRaptor]

Some Great Merchants are incredibly weak, and would be much better served being used to found a Corporation.

Other Great Merchants are fantastically powerful, providing incredible benefits that you'd be crazy to pass up.

It's highly situational and depends entirely on the situation in question.

[Cryten]

Remember that corporations double the bonus from industries. So you get an insane production tile, good food, a double industry bonus and the ability to export or stack your industry bonus in stock markets.

I would happy sacrifice most non amenities (and sometimes governor titles) GM's for 1.

[Lemurian1972]

I'll happily burn a Great Merchant that only grants a couple of Envoys, or buffs my internal Trade Routes. Since they expanded the roster for GPs, there's a nice variety that assures some will be completely useless in certain types of game.

[-=Maure=-]

Yes it is worth it for the trash merchants, like the one that gives a city one more tile lol
The merchants that add trade routes or luxuries I keep.