To me, HQS is a totally outdated strategy. It may have worked when it was written, but the game has changed in a way it no longer applies. You keep talking about being able to get enough goods. There have been so many new options to get goods since Cosmic Raven wrote that. GE, GBG, GB's, special buildings, set buildings and so on. The game has eveolved to a point where you no longer need houses, supply buildings, goods buildings and cultural buildings. All you need are militairy buildings. All other basic buildings have become obsolete.