Recent content by schongresh

Rome's big advantage is 1/2 price wonders and early growth (COL). If you want easy econ wins, bust out the Collossus, but more significantly Trade Faire, East India, and Internet--and settle your gold guys (more great people). Tech-wise be the first to research Industrialization and Corporation...

I like the chess analogy. It is apropos because of the beginning, middle and end game. Generally, I think that players that still find the game interesting are hoping for changes that would increase the complexity of general city management strategy. For instance, Civ Rev is a simplification of...

I'm trying to improve my gameplay in mp. There are several strategies and scenarios that recur that are maddening and difficult to overcome. I was hoping to gather some specific ideas and principles that would help advance an average player to the next level. Two major stumbling blocks seem to...

The resources are randomly spaced. This means that simply placing a city 5 squares from your capital only guarantees that you will not share squares--but in trying to access resources (dye, etc) while optimizing build and growth squares sometimes requires overlapping the reach of cities.

Optimum separation is probably 5-6 from the center of each city so that each city doesn't share squares. Sometimes this does not work because resources are randomly spaced and placed. Even if you want to peacefully expand--you are at a huge disadvantage if you do not have offensive units...