How long until a town center pays off?

Building new town centers definitely pay off, but how long does that take? Let's see how great of an investment second and third towns really are!

0:35 Resource cost, converted into time
1:50 Construction time
2:26 Cost of creating villagers at the new TC
3:40 Payoff time if you only made one villager at th TC
4:10 Calculating the payoff time for constant villager production
5:00 Graph of the results
5:56 Other civilizations (Perians, Britons, Indians)
6:35 Unquantifiable factors to consider

Data in a Google Spreadsheet (you'll need to copy or download before editing):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TccUmWsyUC0yx8Gm2m3--nnO4mwpgHRi7uDklRXOGrw/edit?usp=sharing

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