Average Number Of Cities Players Build

Alziel said:
Yep - 'Resettlement' (+3 pop in new cities) and 'Socialist Realism' (faster monuments) are just two of six Order Tenets that help with fast, effective, late game settling. The others are 'Skyscrapers' (cheaper buying of buildings), 'Party Leadership' (+1 culture, food, gold, hammers and science in all cities), 'Worker's Faculties' (faster building factories) and 'Five Year Plan' (increased productivity in all cities).

No other Ideology does more for late game settling than Order.

Internal trade routes also make it viable for anybody to settle cities later in the game now as well.
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You forgot Iron Curtain which increases internal trade route yields. Gets those new cities up fast!

I usually start with around 4-6 and then settle new ones anytime I have excess happiness. I'll have at least one caravan dedicated to internal food routes for new cities. It helps overcome that 5% increase in research cost pretty quickly. I never used to be able to do much late game expansion before BNW. It's one of my favorite things about BNW.
 
Mostly the Capital plus one other City, then conquer, puppet, annex the rest. If I am playing for a culture victory then I only build one City.
 
I usually build 4-5 cities and then capture the rest. I like to puppet (or raze) most of my captured cities. The only time I annex is if I take a city on a distant continent and I want to be able to build units or rush buy infrastructure in that city.
 
Alziel said:
So I did! Thanks for pointing that out. Was that a new addition after the latest patch?
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Might have been. I wouldn't know for sure. I had been taking freedom and autocracy more at first. Can't believe I had been ignoring Order, it's turned into my favorite ideology over the last couple weeks. Very versatile.
 
Depends on the scenario for me. Earlier today, I had an isolated start which meant I could take advantage of expanding, or more specifically, getting all the best strategic locations that I could. When I play Arabia, I also usually cover as much land as I could so I could duplicate luxuries for trades later.

On other cases like being surrounded by both the Japanese and Shaka, I'd play tall, with 2, 3 or 4 cities as smaller empires are far easier to defend than wider ones, plus expanding my borders would piss them off...well further than usual anyway.
 
Given that I play on water maps quite a lot I usually build 2/3 early game plus another 1/2 post Astronomy if suitable sites available (they usually are). I do tend to (coughs) get into conflicts so I get a fair few puppets along the way. Hardly ever annex unless there's a really good reason to.
 
There is usually only luxuries for two maybe three cities on a large map, but I might build another if there is Coal or Oil i'll need later in the game.
 
Depends how much space I have it is usually 3-7 cities so rather tall, except Byzantine games and only Byzantine games seem to go really expansive like 8-12 cities and the games are never tall. And even if I conquer I am usually friends with at least 2-3 civs. No matter what. Although wars are usually defensive or strategical wars like declare war on a civ that is already at war with someone else or is hated by all other civs.
 
I hardly ever settle more than 3-4 cities. Sometimes I will liberate captured cities toward the end of the game once I've acquired my key policies to build the real heavyweight buildings that boost science, production, tourism, etc.
 
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