A Guide to Terrain and Improvements

[SkankinGecko]

Can we sticky this thread please?

I concur. Terrain improvements are one of the things I least understand at this point, and this thread is invaluable.

 

[Matt_G]

What we need is a guide like the invaluable one LoneWolf made for Civ3. You can see what I'm talking about here.
I have toyed with the idea of taking on this daunting task, but after making one for the R&R mod (see sig) I know how much work it will be. I'm very leery of committing to that kind of a time suck right now.
It took me almost a month to make the one linked in my sig.

 

[Stuporstar]

Do Railroads take away food? I am having a major problem keeping my larger cities fed that seems to have happened after I got railroads (Whcih I replaced all my roads.

No railroads do not take away food. You're going to have to find a balance by altering your worker improvements around your cities. Perhaps you need more farms.

I think I'm going to re-post this thread in the strategy articles section. I noticed there's currently only 2 threads in there right now so this one won't get lost in the posts for a while. I guess I should have posted this there in the first place.

I think if more people make guides like this one about various aspects of the game, then compiling them all into a nice pdf guide like Lonewolf's would be a lot less daunting. I myself am a builder and rarely make war, so other people are probably more qualified to make unit guides and such. I am thinking about starting on a city improvement and wonder guide though.

 

[cursif]

What we need is a guide like the invaluable one LoneWolf made for Civ3. You can see what I'm talking about here.
I have toyed with the idea of taking on this daunting task, but after making one for the R&R mod (see sig) I know how much work it will be. I'm very leery of committing to that kind of a time suck right now.
It took me almost a month to make the one linked in my sig.

I've had the idea of graphing out all the possible food/hammer/gold combinations but I'm still [re]learning how to actually play with all the new improvements in the game. Hopefully, by the end of the week I'll be less frenzied about playing 10 hours a day and try my hand at it.

And, regarding someone else's prior comment, lumbermills do not remove any food production but wind/watermills do.

 

[snepp]

And, regarding someone else's prior comment, lumbermills do not remove any food production but wind/watermills do.

What?

 

[Stuporstar]

And, regarding someone else's prior comment, lumbermills do not remove any food production but wind/watermills do.

Nope, wind and watermills add one food. Only workshops remove 1F and the State Property civic modifies that so that you can gain back that 1F.