Good day. This is my first post on here and I had a wee search for this beforehand.
I'm new to Civ, in that I started with 5, which I only got about a month ago. I wouldn't say I'm nooby, because I can play a good game on normal difficulty. I'm just looking for a bit of advice on the area mentioned in the title.
I can never seem to get a good balance between food and production output in my cities. I usually play as Portugal or Korea, and tank Great Library straight away, so I put my city onto production focus. I'll usually try and get either Stonehenge or Oracle after that, followed by Great Lighthouse etc etc. I just like to get these early wonders straight away, but most importantly Great Library, as I more often than not go for a science victory.
But by the time I'm satisfied with the amount of Wonders I have, my city is only population 6 or something, whereas other civs have cities of above 10. Yet, if I switch to food focus, my production goes downhill. I've tried manually controlling which tiles are worked, but it's a hassle to change them around if I need a bit more production, or a bit more food.
I'm aware that starting position helps. I've recently done a singleplayer game where my starting position was excellent, and by 1900s I had a city that's size 30+. Production was also good in that city. That was when I was playing BNW. I had a game of G&K the other day because one of my mates didn't have BNW, and I found it hard to get my cities a good balance.
I think the question I have is; can anyone give me any tips on getting a good balance between food and production, so that my cities can grow at a reasonable rate, but still have enough production to get, say military units in just a few turns. I would also be grateful of any tips regarding gold per turn, as I cannot seem to get nearly enough gold as I need to (G&K, whereas one of my mates is getting 150/turn non Golden-age)
Thanks for any help
-Lewis
I'm new to Civ, in that I started with 5, which I only got about a month ago. I wouldn't say I'm nooby, because I can play a good game on normal difficulty. I'm just looking for a bit of advice on the area mentioned in the title.
I can never seem to get a good balance between food and production output in my cities. I usually play as Portugal or Korea, and tank Great Library straight away, so I put my city onto production focus. I'll usually try and get either Stonehenge or Oracle after that, followed by Great Lighthouse etc etc. I just like to get these early wonders straight away, but most importantly Great Library, as I more often than not go for a science victory.
But by the time I'm satisfied with the amount of Wonders I have, my city is only population 6 or something, whereas other civs have cities of above 10. Yet, if I switch to food focus, my production goes downhill. I've tried manually controlling which tiles are worked, but it's a hassle to change them around if I need a bit more production, or a bit more food.
I'm aware that starting position helps. I've recently done a singleplayer game where my starting position was excellent, and by 1900s I had a city that's size 30+. Production was also good in that city. That was when I was playing BNW. I had a game of G&K the other day because one of my mates didn't have BNW, and I found it hard to get my cities a good balance.
I think the question I have is; can anyone give me any tips on getting a good balance between food and production, so that my cities can grow at a reasonable rate, but still have enough production to get, say military units in just a few turns. I would also be grateful of any tips regarding gold per turn, as I cannot seem to get nearly enough gold as I need to (G&K, whereas one of my mates is getting 150/turn non Golden-age)
Thanks for any help
-Lewis