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An unintended consequence: Let's say that A has a min of 100, B has a min of 50, and both have 0 food to start with. On the fourth turn A will reach its min and start shipping the surplus to B. After that, A will send 30 food per turn to B which can only consume 25, so B will start accumulating...

3rd city is not on right now, but you've given me an idea which seems to be working: I've set both cities to import and export food with city A having a higher minimum than B, so city A works as city C would. Thanks! EDIT: Turns out there's all sorts of unintended consequences with my...

Let's say I have two cities: City A produces a surplus of 30 food per turn and city B requires 25 food per turn. I have a wagon train transporting food from A to B. My problem is, that at some point, food stocks at B will reach the the storage threshold, and B will pop out a colonist. Then B...

Nice start! Looking forward to next bit.

Try to put your settlement on a coastal tile that has 2 or more food and 3 or more cotton-sugar-tobacco. Then, as soon as your settlement is established, open up the settlement screen and set your first colonist to making cloth/rum/cigars. This gives you something to sell right off the bat.

Place your worker on the peak and then double click him. You will then be given the choice of having him mine silver or dig ore.

Hi! I've had this game for a couple of weeks now, and not having played any of the Civ games before, have had a hard time getting started. The main problem was that I didn't know what to do at the very beginning of the game. The instruction manual didn't instruct, and the tutorial didn't...

5. What are you looking for in a city site? I look for a coastal site located between two indian coastal cities. Hopefully, there will be one or more good fishing squares, and the remaining squares will be level. The square containing the settlement should produce at least two food and three...

At the beginning of a game I start out with either a scout or a warrior. How is this determined? Is it random, or does it depend upon the civ?

Thanks guys! I did send out my galley to explore, and it found a fairly large landmass to the east. I've managed to establish a second city there, and will see what happens.

I should add, that if the city expands twice more, two more fisheries become available.

This is my first Civ game ever. I've read the manual, done the tutorial, and scoured this forum for tips. In this game I've gotten to the point where I'm kind of overwhelmed by possibilities, and could use some advice. Here's the story so far: Romans - Archelipego - Noble I start off...

Here's what I've done: 1 - quit the game 2 - Opened the c4 .ini file and changed fullscreen option to 0 3 - Loaded the game - no windowed mode 4 - Opened the .ini file again fullscreen option is back to 1 dunno