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I think a lot of specializing a city comes from placing the right national wonders and world wonders in them. The only truly "specialized" city I make is a super science city. Usually this is located where there's the potential for lots of farms and a few food resources. It gets all the...

Hmm, that's interesting. I haven't noticed this yet, but I'll definitely be looking for it now. I have noticed in my last game that I had complete city visibility with a vassal but only some of his cities actually showed me what they're currently building. That seemed odd to me at the time. I'll...

Noble ... which I guess means I need to step it up a notch, lol.

Just had to post this. This is my first time getting my SSC over 1000 beakers per turn. My previous record was in the high-800's (with an Aggressive/Charismatic leader). You can't tell, but there are 20 scientist specialists running in the city along with the others which you can see: 22...

I find that the best way to make someone your vassal is to ensure that the above criteria are true (size, pop, etc.), and then take their capital. Once you have that, they usually capitulate in the same turn. Then I usually give it back because its in a bad spot.

Updates, Quechua! Updates! :)

Wow. 62,000,000 is way too high. The article you sited said that he killed 6 million Jews and then another 6 million alleged undesirables (including Soviet POW's, homosexuals, freemasons, etc.) in concentration/death camps. Add to that the casualties caused by his armies and that original number...

Ah. Gotcha.

Maybe something in between ... try and make them your vassal. You'll get extra happiness, access to their resources, and a de facto ally in any war against you. All without having to prosecute a prolonged war leading to infinite war weariness and a tech lag.

LOL ... Alright, I'm hooked.

Riflemen. Or tanks.

Are you sure its that specific of a representation? I always kinda saw the rifleman as using a distinctly better technology than mere musketmen. i.e., rifled bores vs. smooth bores. Not as a specific type of riflemen themselves, early or later. Whether they were using good rifles or primitive...

I'd like to see more about your unorthodox strategy. Earlier you mentioned a merchant economy ... no GS's or cottages, with a sharp focus on GM's and GP's. Is that working out?

To be perfectly honest, I NEVER build a warrior first. I've never been attacked in the early stages. Even if I don't have fishing and I've got nothing for a worker to improve, I'll start building a warrior, and then when fishing pops (usually my first research priority for a coastal site like...

Its a good start with practically no infrastructure needed. I'd build a workboat, warrior (move to new city site), settler, warrior, oracle/stonehenge, warrior, settler, etc. Keep expanding til you hit like four cities. Build some workers too for your other cities. As for the destiny of your...