-Dutch settlers gather gold at
-All other settlers gather gold at
-All settlers gather wood at
-When used, the South Sea Bubble (SSB) card exchanges all the players gold for
-Tribute automatically deducts 11% of resources tributed.
1-6-216-248.4-180-310.5 2-6-432-496.8-360-621 6-6-1296-1490.4-1080-1863 Obviously, as Dutch it is more efficient to gather gold and use SSB than to gather wood.
-If the Dutch focus only on gold, they can easily amass ~500 wood by just two minutes (w/6 settlers on gold).
this means that you get up to
There are several forms of using SSB which make it more powerful. One of these is the sling. Imagine you are Dutch and your partner is Spanish. You can tribute ~1000 wood at 4 minutes easily to your partner. If he has a FB up, he can spam 25 pikemen as long as he has enough food. Also, if your partner does a fast ageup and sends 700 gold, tributing it to you (700x.11=77; 633), you can have 1600+ wood by 5 minutes.
This may be used for a powerful pikeman rush, for turtling, map control, church shipments (also for Spanish), and naval capabilities.
Dutch-Spain Finance Chart from AgeCommunity: