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I absolutely destroyed. everyone was capitulated by 1550, 85k points or something. Really the war machine got moving so hardcore that I had two full bars of units (mostly macemen, and some calvalry/catapults) when I dropped the Koreans. Fun game. Terra is a bit hit or miss for me though...

I feel pretty good about my game then :P I did pretty much everything you said before I read your post, except the diplo stuff w/ monty - I really suck at that part of the game, also I haven't filled in cities yet, just upgrading tiles / upping happiness cap, busting out courthouses etc. I...

Prince difficulty. This is turn 105, I finished destroying the mayans at 103 turns. I'm well over 40% of the world population - I still have a nice standing army and will probably go crush the chinese next (they build the GLH, and I want it!), however longterm I'm not sure what to do. There...

Wow, thank you all for such good responses. However, there is one thing I don't really get still - how do I make an effective empire in the early game with this setup? Am I forced to just REX and then tech like mad to get to the point you guys are talking about? What if I'm backed into a...

If I go the rushbuy route - that is a TON of gold right? So should I then have like half my cities go straight commerce, and the other half go research? I think that is the aspect of the game I understand the least at this point - in the beginning commerce = research, because I have no need for...

So in my last game, which I won, ALL of my first ~10 cities were commerce. All of them cottaged, because pretty much my entire half of our continent (7 AIs and me on terra) was a mix of grasslands on rivers and desert/tundra. I couldn't even run a scientist forever, because I took the holy city...

and, basically that is all I was looking for, there is 0 economic benefit for roading every tile, it is just the automated workers at the end. I'm actually thinking of stepping up to monarch... I just wasted everyone doing terra as portugese, never even leaving the main continent... warmonging...

I'm still fairly noob but... with on prince w/ inca (the last game I actually played all the way through) the rush is far more effective after starting your second city and getting your main city up to 4 with 2 hills mined and 2 food sources... this is because you can then get a quecha every...

I dunno, I rarely feel like I don't have enough workers. often I feel like I have way, way to many, especially after the very initial stages of the game where you can only have limited happy cap and then all workers are just chopping jungle or something equally gay. doesn't every riverside tile...

I watched a TMIT video where he had roads all over the place - my empire NEVER looks like... I have roads connecting all my cities and resources, and then maybe extra roads that troops regularly travel... the roads to allies / enemy boarders, and that is about it. I don't build roads regularly...

Well, I guess a lot of things went wrong. I had ~18 cannons and ~12 rifles, and 2 machine guns for the city I planned to take. I actually planned on going for peace after taking the city, so that I could have a foothold on the continent. The AI had all the border even remotely close to me, so I...

So, I'm pretty solid in my beginning game, on prince. I can wipe out everyone on my continent without breaking a sweat usually. And then I used to quit because I got bored. But recently I've actually had the desire to finish games, and actually "win". The problem I have is I don't actually know...

This. Bug has helped me up my game. I'm straight rocking prince right now... May be time to work on the move up to monarch :P (I tried one game last night... the barbs are feirce :() BTW, is it me, or are Incas straight up over powered? (I love them) SOOO much money, so economy can rock...

I watched a few youtube videos to up my game and I watched the guy talked about looking at the leader XMLs for your opposing civs... I was wondering if you guys could give me a link, because I couldn't google it, and clearly the next part of upping my game is going to be staying out of 2-3 way...

Clearly I'm building up a list of questions... but I have another one. I installed bug+bull, which is nice (better tooltips and stuff from what i can see mostly), what I really want though is a way to plan cities by putting BFCs on the map, posibly even shadow improvements, so I can plan the...