Approaching the first goal as last player

[MrShingami]

It seems fairly common to sprint to that first ceo goal if you are one of the first players (whether it’s development or expert worker based). If you are the third player in ranked though, that is a lot of resources early and feels not really worth it later unless it happens to line up. How are other people handling that situation (or if you are first/second and happen to be boxed out, etc).