Recent content by dr_s

I had a similar thought. Limit the number of cities the player can control directly. For example, on a standard sized map, you could only directly control cities founded within 6 tiles of your capital. Beyond that, you have to appoint a governor to appoint cities in that region ... a real...

Yes, I'm sure that's it. Thanks.

I don't understand the yield of the farm that's getting 4 food and 2 production in this screenshot. I have feudalism ... is the adjacency bonus for feudalism +1 food for every two neighboring farms, or just for the first two neighboring farms? And why does that farm have 2 production when the...

Thanks for the tips. After a few attempts, I was able to reproduce your result. The breakthrough came when I back-calculated the settling dates for the expos and realized that you probably produced your settlers around turns 37 and 44. That really focused my attention, and made me realize the...

That's the thing ... I used food caravans (I had a non-coastal capital). It's true I diverted two to the CS when I got trade route quests, but otherwise I tried to prioritize them. So I have to think there's something else going on. I would love to see the cities themselves and what buildings...

Wow, thanks for posting those screenshots, it really shows the holes in my game, and the importance of population (I think). To compare, at turn 64, you're at pop 13 and 16 BPT, at turn 100, you're at pop 26 and 57 BPT, and at turn 145 you're at pop 42 and 279 BPT. In my game, I'm at pop 9 and...

Like I said, I play Immortal, but I thought I would play this though turn 64 to compare. I've attached a screen shot. I like settling on hills, so I moved the warrior north and then settled on the hill to the NE on turn 2. I usually only build one scout, so my build order was scout, monument...

I play Immortal mostly but will throw in my two cents. I don't like Busan as the second city. Low production and you don't have masonry so you can't immediately improve the stone or clear the marsh. Also, if you're not going for a religion, why are you building a shrine there? I would have...

At Monarch I think you ought to be able to win most games playing peacefully (no wars of aggression or expansion). What happens in your games that prevents you from winning? Even if you're half the size of the biggest AI, you should be able to beat them to space at that level.

While I agree that whipping is very strong, I don't see how you can neglect the lost beakers when you whip in this situation. Using your example, let's say it takes 6 turns to grow back to pop 4, while working a food-producing tile with the third pop while growing from 3 to 4. Then you've...

Note that I made a dumb math error in my original post that may change your evaluation of the situation. I've fixed it, and propagated the change to my other posts in the thread.

+1 to everything Gr8scott and Mylene said. I'll also add that settling on the gold is better for whipping, because you get more :food: and don't have to worry about whipping away the citizen working the mine. I think what some people might be overlooking is the opportunity cost of working the...

When you're financial, you get a bonus :commerce: from every tile producing 2:commerce: or more, including any city tiles. If you're not financial and you settle on the gold, you only get 2:food:, 2:hammers:, and 2:commerce: in your city when you settle on the gold, and you get 2:food: and...

The discussion in this thread made me start to wonder when you should settle on riverside gold. At first I thought it would only make sense when you have multiple gold tiles available (as in that example), but the more I think about it, the more sense it makes even if you just have a single gold...

Can you provide a source for that? I always thought that maintenance was determined primarily by population and distance from capital, with modifiers for corporations and cities on other land masses. I've never heard of buildings affecting the maintenance cost of cities.