Recent content by bigFRANK

Ive had it before, sometimes I sit an idle worker on an unroaded tile with a resource under it in a denial of service kind of effort very effective on iron or horses in the early years.

Right I’ve had chance to open up your 1804 save and played it into the 1960’s; It wasn’t looking very good when I opened it, negative gold, still in the middle ages, luxuries and resources in short supply, still hadn’t met your neighbor and you where heading for a sure...

I haven’t had chance to open up your saves yet but from what’s suggested here Fascism is probably your way forward (I know most folks don’t like it), mega military support, lower corruption, best military policing, no war weariness, doubles worker efficiency and still allows you to rush things...

So you have more culture than your rivals but a bankrupt economy, time to sell some temples/coleseums/cathederals etc as they cost a lot to maintain. Also you need to improve the land around your towns to generate more coins and shields (which on wealth are turned into coins). Feudalism has a...

Welcome, I picked up the game cheaply a couple of years ago too. Chieftain level is pretty easy once you’ve got the basics of the game. 3 phases to most of my games Expansion Consolidation Domination Keep the science high and don’t fixate on building to much...

I probably do if I can find the saved game although its not one Im proud of as I lost on points come 2050.

Yep sucks to have a poor start location, my worst (that I played to the end) was between a jungle and a desert, I ended up moving my palace after a foray overseas and left my original cities under protected and under producing, they weren’t much use to me until the industrial age.

Build your first city near fresh water if possible, preferably with a bonus food resource in your city limits. Build a warrior or 3 to go look about, this will let your capital grow. Set your science rate to zero whilst you look about, popping goody huts can gift you free science that you...

Oh indeed nukes can be useful just dont be the first to use them if you want to still be on friendly terms with the other civs.

As the others have said your collected all the shields for the build you just dont have the population to make a settler (or a worker) and wont have for 30ish turns, put your city one worker on the cow and population should grow quicker.

Unlikey that the build got reassigned to another city. Possible that Alex coverted build to something he may have needed to fight you (a tac nuke). Everyone will hate you if you start a nuke war so wont help you with anything from that point on.

Howabout 3/1/3 an ultimate skirmisher move attack and run away all in a single turn.

my none scientific thoughts would say start to build settlers when pop=3.

Also on the GPT deals you tend to have to have a good reputation with folks before they will agree to a GPT deal.

Controls how flat the playing surface is, 5 being the flattest, 3 being the lumpiest.