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you mean... you don't go all war all the time? what... how....

Thanks for all the info everyone; it's very useful! I now have a resource to read when I need to figure out what to do after cuirs!

Yea communism beeline is another I forgot to mention. I guess It just seems like in the early game, all the techs in a beeline and most techs in general seem to have some tangible benefit that greatly impacts the game, whereas later their benefits aren't as clear or don't seem to feel as...

I find myself time and time again in games where, the first say, 200 turns are easy, and make sense to me, but once I've hit Cuirs, or maybe all the way to cavs, the tech tree becomes a big jumbled mess I can't make any sense of. I understand the typical early beelines and tech path options...

There is not particularly much discussion to be had. Early UU's are always much better than late UU's, and anyone who knows Civ knows a faster worker is extremely advantageous

If civ 3 was too complicated maybe you should stick to solitare ;)

unfortunately playing multiplayer is a lot different than playing single. Suggesting for a new player to play multi over single is kind of silly. It is not difficult at all to improve at least to prince level in single player within only a handful of games. Read some strategy, and spend time...

At this point I had I think 6 cities, and space for 2 more, but pre-currency, the money was tight. I think I was already down to 30% maybe on the slider, running scientists in my food heavy cities to make up the research deficit. Even with 6 cities I was running out of worker tasks because I...

Thanks for the tips guys. I think maybe I made too many workers this last game that inspired me to ask this. The problem was I only had 1 happy resource, so my cities were max size 5/6, and I had nothing to build in cities beside military units/workers/settlers, so I went with workers to avoid...

Sorry I don't have any saves or screenshots, but I'm wondering if anyone has any general advice about utilizing workers past say, the first 80-90 turns. It's pretty evident in the early game that ok, you got to improve those resource tiles, grab some hills for production, some river grass for...

monarch isn't that bad of a step up. I find it takes longer to get into a lead, you have to be more careful about expanding to not kill yourself with maintenance cost, and the AI is not as much of a pushover in battle. However once you get into a tech lead, it becomes pretty easy to maintain it...

I wasn't quite getting at something as advanced as that, but rather suggesting that focusing on trying to understand why something is better, and the process that would bring you to the conclusion that something is better, is much more valuable for increasing your actual skill at the game rather...

The thing about a game like civ, is that there is no "best move," and there is no "awesome opener". There is no right or wrong way to play, and there is no gambit or strategy that is always going to be successful. If you really want to excel in Civ4, or in any game for that matter, you need...

I can't open the game because it required a different version of BUG than I use, but the most common reason for early financial collapse is expanding too much or overproducing units, without the commerce to back it up

I consider an early rush to basically be one without siege. Quecha being an extreme example, 1 city Immortal/WC being slightly less extreme, and horse archer/gaelic/praetorian kind of being the last of the "early rush" possibilities. My question then is, as you have already answered, is it...