Am I doing well

[CanadianGloworm]

I haven't had much time to play civ3 as much as I would like, can someone tell me if i'm doing ok:
year-1200 AD
-45 gold per turn
-1800gold in treasury
-210 points
-I think I have 14 cities
-Republic
-have 2-5 techs above everyone
-I think there is 14+civs

If this is not that great let me know where inprovement should be and by how much

 

[Ferd]

That depends an awful lot on which difficulty you're playing, and how big the map is. With 14+ civs, I assume you're playing in the huge map?

Fourteen cities seems a bit small. I know the city count is a major play style issue, and if you like playing a few cities that's great. Your max city count on the huge map before you start getting major corruption issues is 32 I believe. You could probably afford to expand some.

Why are you keeping so much money in your treasury? Are all your cities maxed out on improvements? Other than the 1000 that gives you interest with Wall Street, there isn't really much advantage to keeping a lot of money in your treasury. Put it to good use. Rush a bank or two.

 

[CanadianGloworm]

It is on a huge map and its on the cheesiest level (chieften)
So I shouldn't keep that much money and just rush build everything.
is there a certain amount of money I should keep or don't worry too much about it.

 

[exorcist]

I assume you aren't glowworm from mfo? Anyway, keep at least 1000 gold in your treasury because that will give the mas output from wallstreet (assuming you have built it) but yes, spend the money. Its like in life, if you make 100,000 a year, isn't a bit ridiculous to drive a beat up car and live in a cheap ass apartment but have 80,000 in the bank?

 

[Endureth]

Its like in life, if you make 100,000 a year, isn't a bit ridiculous to drive a beat up car and live in a cheap ass apartment but have 80,000 in the bank?

In a Metallica video, the bassist was once teased about taking little sandwiches from hotel lobbies back to his room instead of just eating regular meals at fancy restuarants like the rest of the band members. Afterall, he made millions of dollars a year.

His response . . . "Hey, I got plans for those millions, I can eat sandwiches."

He's not in the band anymore. I guess he took all the money he saved eating sandwiches and speant it on something really nice.

Endureth