Recent content by Midsize Gorilla

I am currently playing a game on King, which is a difficulty that I still struggle with (I suck at this game), and I am badly losing in my current game. I am on pangea, standard speed, in the industrial age, playing as Pacal. I have oceans on three sides of my area and Ethiopia to my south...

Ok thanks, I wondered if I was wasting time by having workers build farms so far away. I guess that would be a yes :D

I'm new to Civ within the past few weeks and one thing I can't figure out is whether there is any point to improving tiles that are more than 3 spaces away from a city? Especially border cities that are on the edge of my empire, later in the game they can expand 4-5 spaces out from the city tile...