I have played civ3 a long time and just started playing c4. I was having trouble with civ4 so decided to find some advice and here I am. After reading up here quite a bit I am doing better but finding myself floundering in some areas.
The first is how to manage workers in the beginning. I generally take the first good spot I see with my first city and figure i will specialize it based on what I get. In last nights game I got a good plains with freshwater spot so figured I would make it a commerce city. What is the priority on what you build to get that city going as far as improvements. I know you generally want cottages and farms. Do they all need roads? Or are roads only important (for this purpose) when the resource is outside the fat x. Or maybe it is for bringing to a city any resoure? When do i need roads is i guess the question. Does a cottage need a road? I get the concept of figuring out how many farms you will need when all is said and done..but how do you judge when to build? What is the indicator. Is it just looking at the bread produced to bread used and if it is one plus do you just build another farm?
Last night my second city was a hills spot. So same questions above apply again to this city which i figured I would make a production city. Mines and farms? My 3rd city was 4 furs and 2 wine on mostly hills spots. I had no idea what to with that. According to the new strategies i have been reading. That really isn't good. Maybe only for trades later? I put a camp and a winery up knowing i could use it for something. What is best way to handle that situation?
Second issue: I have made a spreadsheet of what is good to build in a city for specific purposes. Like don't build temples in production cities etc. If you have nothing else to build..is it okay to go ahead and build temples? I found myself with tons of military because i was trying to follow that spreadsheet to the T and couldn't build anything but military. It kinda worked out okay because I have been picking on my neighbor with them since nothign better to do.
Right now I am missmanaging my cities badly and not sure how to fix it. Experience playing will help a lot but hoping to skip some of the learning process through you all.
The first is how to manage workers in the beginning. I generally take the first good spot I see with my first city and figure i will specialize it based on what I get. In last nights game I got a good plains with freshwater spot so figured I would make it a commerce city. What is the priority on what you build to get that city going as far as improvements. I know you generally want cottages and farms. Do they all need roads? Or are roads only important (for this purpose) when the resource is outside the fat x. Or maybe it is for bringing to a city any resoure? When do i need roads is i guess the question. Does a cottage need a road? I get the concept of figuring out how many farms you will need when all is said and done..but how do you judge when to build? What is the indicator. Is it just looking at the bread produced to bread used and if it is one plus do you just build another farm?
Last night my second city was a hills spot. So same questions above apply again to this city which i figured I would make a production city. Mines and farms? My 3rd city was 4 furs and 2 wine on mostly hills spots. I had no idea what to with that. According to the new strategies i have been reading. That really isn't good. Maybe only for trades later? I put a camp and a winery up knowing i could use it for something. What is best way to handle that situation?
Second issue: I have made a spreadsheet of what is good to build in a city for specific purposes. Like don't build temples in production cities etc. If you have nothing else to build..is it okay to go ahead and build temples? I found myself with tons of military because i was trying to follow that spreadsheet to the T and couldn't build anything but military. It kinda worked out okay because I have been picking on my neighbor with them since nothign better to do.
Right now I am missmanaging my cities badly and not sure how to fix it. Experience playing will help a lot but hoping to skip some of the learning process through you all.