@reck: your palace gives production bonus iirc. Monument is 25 hammers so you probably have a couple hammers being worked plus your palace. The other city is likely just sitting on a grassland herping the derp
In post 123, xRECKONERx wrote:why the fuck is my first city like "oh here's a monument in 8 turns" then my second city is like "lol it'll take 25"
Every space has its own resource values (food, gold, and/or production). This is generally based on type of land (hills are production + gold, grassland is food + maybe gold, etc). Also like Mhork said, your capital has some production bonuses due to the Palace building that comes in naturally to your capital.
Plus you can learn the equations. I think it's 2 food for grassland, a food and a hammer for plains. Hills add a hammer but take a food. Rivers add a gold. Forests add a hammer. Jungles remove all hammers but add a food or something. Water tiles all make a food.
Then all the resources count in their bonuses. Again, this is just memory. I could be wrong
You can also customize what resources you want to focus on either manually or with the AI.
When you found new cities it will always take a bit of time to complete things but later on it's easier to just buy up a lot of what you need.
Been playing a lot of this recently, trying it on a higher level (4, lol).
Lost a game as Ethiopia because I was too concerned with China's Science than the Netherlands popularity, and the latter won the world vote
Now midway through a game as Sweden, trying to win via being the most popular. It's going quite well, although Persia are huge and are right on my doorstep.
In post 137, Nexus wrote:Been playing a lot of this recently, trying it on a higher level (4, lol).
Lost a game as Ethiopia because I was too concerned with China's Science than the Netherlands popularity, and the latter won the world vote
Now midway through a game as Sweden, trying to win via being the most popular. It's going quite well, although Persia are huge and are right on my doorstep.
Won Diplo victory.
Persuaded America to go to war with Persia, they took the capital, so I went and stole their second city to boost my science. Then just kept getting US and Denmark to fight whilst I maintained control of all the city states until I eventually won.
I generally prefer to spend free time doing productive stuff.
But I did receive as a Christmas gift Civ 5. It's still in its wrapping, but I was wondering if I should waste my summer by getting addicted to it. (For previous reference, Civ 3 and its expansions are the only other games in the series that I've played.) And if so, recommendations on what to do, tips and tricks and whatnot.
I think its a great game though the games take awhile so its not something you pick up and play really fast. It takes a commitment (a lot like mafia in that regard!). Different civilizations have different strengths depending on what you want to do depends on the civilization.
Of all tyrannies,a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Well, for perspective, I tended to abuse the Persians in Civ 3, since they were a great civ for advancing fast, having a strong early militaristic presence, and dominating culturally; I frequently could on easier difficulties wipe the floor using any victory condition I chose. Basically, aggressive early-game, with me rarely even getting to the late-game thanks to smothering.
Civ is great. I played a shitload of Civ2 back in the day with a weird space-themed mod. Then I got Alpha Centauri and never looked back. Domai for the fucking win
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I should play Civ again but it honestly didn't feel super interesting. I know it's amazingly deep, but vs AI it really isn't because diplomacy doesn't exist. And I'm not playing a 4 hour game online. Fuck no.
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