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This is what I'm asking about. If you can take the happiness hit, is it better to build new cities in subpar locations or is it better to just keep to your core?

Is it always necessary to have at least four cities to play optimally? If your expansions spots are subpar or if you are boxed in, is it better to get something like 2-3 good cities or 4 or more bad cities?

In my recent game, I simply delayed building my ToA until I got out two settlers and I skipped a monument after getting a culture ruin. I was able to get my national college at around turn 90 while still being able to get both of my wonders. I think the most important change here is getting my...

Yeah, I'm going to try a game with minimal wonder-whoring and just going for a fast victory of sort. My first few Emperor games involved building huge militaries and conquering everyone since I didn't know how use trade caravans for food and I would go liberty despite building 3-4 cities most of...

Russia (spams cities like crazy and has good science) Iroquois (spams cities like crazy and has good science) Shoshone (spams cities like crazy and seems to always conquor their continent) America (spams cities like crazy and builds huge military) Greece (spams cities like crazy and is befriends...

Nerfing India by making it better? Do you mean buff?

I usually can't get the AI to sign DoF that early to get the lump sums of gold needed to buy out those settlers. That's why I've been playing Spain and Songhai lately; that early gold lets me build those wonders without spending time pumping out settlers and I can usually straight out buy...

Worker stealing isn't very useful on Emperor for me since by the time the AI gets them, I'll have already built one. Obviously this strategy will be more useful once I move up to Immortal. Abandoning that monument in my build actually seems tempting now that I remember tradition can give you a...

I could probably move up without losing horribly since I've won every Emperor game I've played except for the very first one (signing DoF with Dido was my first mistake). That being said, I enjoy being the strongest (or at least one of the strongest) civs in the game and I'd probably be near the...

So I should just delay getting the Oracle? What about the Temple of Artemis? I've started getting this wonder upon stepping up to Emperor since the AI doesn't really go for it (I go for any wonder that the AI doesn't compete with me for). Should I keep it in my build order or just scrap it for a...

This is one thing that has been bothering me in most of my games. I've looked at strategy guides that suggest getting a national college by turn 80 while having four cities in same amount of time. I'll typically only have three cities up by then and I usually don't get my national college until...

This was a regular continents map. He had a declaration of friendship with nearly everyone on the map though and lots of research agreements as a result. That could have been it. Typically, Polynesia forward settles half the Civs on the map and pisses everyone off but he did manage to make...

Hello CivFanatics. This is my first post on this forum and I wanted to share a recent game I had with the Shoshone on Emperor difficulty. In most of my games, I typically have the tech lead. I usually am the first to get to the Renaissance era and I am always the first to get to the...