Hey guys!
I've beat Civ 4 quite a few times on Emperor. Maybe not amazing by people's standards here, but it's enough to explain that I shouldn't be facing the difficulties that I am.
Supposedly Civ5 is easier than 4, so I must be doing something obviously wrong. In this game, I simply cannot produce an army because I am having such problems amassing gold in this game. To keep up with other leading civs I am usually left defenseless and the only reason I can manage to survive any attacks is thanks to the ******ed AI, but that doesn't make me very satisfied with my strategy either. I don't understand how they can maintain such huge armies while having cities full of structures that cost insane amounts of maintenance. Even when I set out from the start with the idea of just making as much gold as possible, everything feels too expensive. In the end, I usually feel like there's almost no point building more structures in my cities, cus I can't afford them. Interesting since all I do is trying to amass gold, paying almost zero maintenance for military units. The cities simply do not make enough gold, no matter how many trading posts/resources I have. I even try to trade away excess resources for GPT, but the difference is marginal and things simply do not work out in the long run for me. To think that I'm playing on Prince, where the AI is not supposed to have any 'cheating' advantages makes me think I am doing something horribly wrong!
Those games when my goal is to conquer other civs in the start, I always end up having to delete my units. In Civ4 I easily figured out how to adapt before it happened, but here.. no. I've no idea. It's almost embarassing.
What are you guys doing when you want to make as much gold as possible?
I've beat Civ 4 quite a few times on Emperor. Maybe not amazing by people's standards here, but it's enough to explain that I shouldn't be facing the difficulties that I am.
Supposedly Civ5 is easier than 4, so I must be doing something obviously wrong. In this game, I simply cannot produce an army because I am having such problems amassing gold in this game. To keep up with other leading civs I am usually left defenseless and the only reason I can manage to survive any attacks is thanks to the ******ed AI, but that doesn't make me very satisfied with my strategy either. I don't understand how they can maintain such huge armies while having cities full of structures that cost insane amounts of maintenance. Even when I set out from the start with the idea of just making as much gold as possible, everything feels too expensive. In the end, I usually feel like there's almost no point building more structures in my cities, cus I can't afford them. Interesting since all I do is trying to amass gold, paying almost zero maintenance for military units. The cities simply do not make enough gold, no matter how many trading posts/resources I have. I even try to trade away excess resources for GPT, but the difference is marginal and things simply do not work out in the long run for me. To think that I'm playing on Prince, where the AI is not supposed to have any 'cheating' advantages makes me think I am doing something horribly wrong!
Those games when my goal is to conquer other civs in the start, I always end up having to delete my units. In Civ4 I easily figured out how to adapt before it happened, but here.. no. I've no idea. It's almost embarassing.
What are you guys doing when you want to make as much gold as possible?
