goodolarchie
Warlord
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2009
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I've played civ since the original, and looking back I never really had a clue what I was doing in civ 4 until I followed some of the strategies on this forum
Less than a year ago I was starting on Warlord and barely winning games because the strategies from civ I-III just don't work in IV! I made some pretty huge mistakes (still do ) and didn't realize the error of my ways until retrospect. I won my first Diety domination game today and was reflecting back on those mistakes.
So what were your biggest mistakes before you started climbing the difficulty ranks? Here were mine:
-oveREXpansion! How about 12 cities by 1 AD running 0% science? Yes!!!
-Trying to build EVERY wonder! I don't think I got out of prince until I gave up getting both stonehenge and pyramids in EVERY game I played. I can't remember the last time I built either...
-Practically 0 city specialization. My placement strategy was: Get as many resources in the BFC and build pretty much every single building!
-No population control, I never really understood how the happy/healthy mechanics worked. My cities would revolt and lose a bunch of food because of my negligence.
-Using the Tokaguwa diplomacy model I don't think I ever so much as opened borders until Monarch because I thought civs would settle in my back-filled land. I NEVER traded techs because I thought that would just help out the enemy advance, when it was I who was becoming backwards. I was the old man telling the kids to get off my lawn.
-GP Misuse. I settled every single one of them, and never ran specialists. In fact I didn't even know you could monitor the GPP, I just thought they were semi-random events.
Yep, I've come a long ways thanks to CFC!
Less than a year ago I was starting on Warlord and barely winning games because the strategies from civ I-III just don't work in IV! I made some pretty huge mistakes (still do ) and didn't realize the error of my ways until retrospect. I won my first Diety domination game today and was reflecting back on those mistakes.
So what were your biggest mistakes before you started climbing the difficulty ranks? Here were mine:
-oveREXpansion! How about 12 cities by 1 AD running 0% science? Yes!!!
-Trying to build EVERY wonder! I don't think I got out of prince until I gave up getting both stonehenge and pyramids in EVERY game I played. I can't remember the last time I built either...
-Practically 0 city specialization. My placement strategy was: Get as many resources in the BFC and build pretty much every single building!
-No population control, I never really understood how the happy/healthy mechanics worked. My cities would revolt and lose a bunch of food because of my negligence.
-Using the Tokaguwa diplomacy model I don't think I ever so much as opened borders until Monarch because I thought civs would settle in my back-filled land. I NEVER traded techs because I thought that would just help out the enemy advance, when it was I who was becoming backwards. I was the old man telling the kids to get off my lawn.
-GP Misuse. I settled every single one of them, and never ran specialists. In fact I didn't even know you could monitor the GPP, I just thought they were semi-random events.
Yep, I've come a long ways thanks to CFC!