Recent content by grapedog

Is it more advisable to go for disbanding a city and moving on, or installing a governer. i find myself loath to destroy a size 8 or 9 city that could be used for production closer to the conflict area, but it seems to take forever to conquest if you constantly have to stop and pacify a city...

on my latest game, im taking great pains to whip unhappy citizens off the map. I had originally intended for this game for a conquest victory, but i had such a great start, i ended up switching to cultural. I'm about 4k points in the lead, with 4 religions, and teching a head. I popped 5 of...

i already won the game, but I was just curious about some of those issues. I just started playing on Noble recently, i've gotten a domination victory and a really messy cultural victory. The first victory was sloppy as I took over my entire continent, but i was into the 1900's by the time it...

I am correct that in this photo, as it stands right now, either a courthouse(-50% maintenance penalty) or a grocer(+25% income) is going to produce the same 2 gold profit? What about in the long run, i was originally thinking the grocer, because the economy of that city will continue to grow...

if i remember correctly, they used to have food trucks that you could route food from one city to another, but looks like they got rid of that.

anyone know?

i had one rival left, and hemmed in on all sides...i had already won a domination victory, but wanted to see if I could take him out. I had only started making Helicopters, but he had those already, plus tanks and fighter planes... if a specific AI civ doesn't get abused a whole lot during...

Lessons I learned... In my first game I never really took Tokugawa down that much. I nabbed two early cities, but that early in the game leaving him with his capitol and two other cities didn't do a whole lot, i still had to contend with him and watch that border the entire time in case he...

thank you! i've recently stopped automating my workers, but do automated workers put roads everywhere or just where they need to be?

in older civ games, like Civ II, i thought they did and i was thinking that maybe that carried over, but i could just be very wrong on all counts... i appreciate the info, does anyone remember if they used to help on the older civ games, im just curious if i am remembering correctly at this...

im a tree hugger, so i like to leave trees hanging around if i can...especially the wintery trees. but thats just a personal quirk...not out of any bonuses or anything. i wish there was a mode for having trees near your city if you had enough could give you a health or happiness mod.

Do building roads under cottages or mines(that are not actual on a resource) do anything for the square. Do roads only add improvements to tiles that have a +(bonus) for road/railroad? Or do road add bonuses to cottages and the like for just being there even if they are not going to ever be...

i've not been able to find much information, but how does Free Market, Mercantilism and Open Borders all work. Do trade routes spring up that you didn't innitiate or approve? If you close the borders, Mercantilism is the same as free market, and you should be running free market it you are...

like one guy said, as long as it's not completely barren on all sides for a ways, putting a city smack on a desert tile will give you i think 2 food and 1 hammer. If the surrounding tiles don't have a lot of desert, it's sometimes not a bad spot for a city if you can take advantage of other...

i had that happen last night actually, got Oil to pop in two places. One a few tiles outside my territory, and another spot right under a full town...it sucked.