After not playing civ5 for several months, being a little disappointed at first, I gave it a try again recently with the new patches, and I must say I like the game much more. Hard to explain why exactly.
Since I didn't play civ5 that much, and was never a civ4 god either, I have a few questions. I'm playing on Prince difficulty btw.
To give you an impression of my low level, I only yesterday finally discovered a strategy that happiness buildings -> city growth -> more money (thx to trade network) -> all better. Before that I would choose to not build happiness buildings, because I was afraid going under my budget, but I recently discovered the city growth will pay this back. So I systematically build the happiness buildings now.
So I have made a huge step forward, since I was always failing at the later game stages, when luxury resources became less dominant, and I would have mini cities compared to others, which ultimately undermines everything.
But now I notice other empires manage to be MUCH more successful on other fields:
- Production, last game England had 4x my production, while having a smaller empire.. HOW? I do build railroad, workshop, factories, mines, etc...
- Gandhi won the game, with only 4 cities. Culture victory. I had not even completed 3 social branches, how could Gandhi already have completed 5 + utopia project? (I do know less cities = less culture cost, but still!)
- I'm still struggling often to make good money and happiness.
Some advices?
Since I didn't play civ5 that much, and was never a civ4 god either, I have a few questions. I'm playing on Prince difficulty btw.
To give you an impression of my low level, I only yesterday finally discovered a strategy that happiness buildings -> city growth -> more money (thx to trade network) -> all better. Before that I would choose to not build happiness buildings, because I was afraid going under my budget, but I recently discovered the city growth will pay this back. So I systematically build the happiness buildings now.
So I have made a huge step forward, since I was always failing at the later game stages, when luxury resources became less dominant, and I would have mini cities compared to others, which ultimately undermines everything.
But now I notice other empires manage to be MUCH more successful on other fields:
- Production, last game England had 4x my production, while having a smaller empire.. HOW? I do build railroad, workshop, factories, mines, etc...
- Gandhi won the game, with only 4 cities. Culture victory. I had not even completed 3 social branches, how could Gandhi already have completed 5 + utopia project? (I do know less cities = less culture cost, but still!)
- I'm still struggling often to make good money and happiness.
Some advices?