saabcaptain
Chieftain
Hi everyone,
I finally picked up CivIII (having never played Civ or CivII) and am having a blast getting my butt kicked. I purchased the Prima guide and it helps a lot but I still have a problem getting my Civ ramped up to speed as fast as other Civ even on Chieftan.
My typical problem is I build far to few cities. Often when I discover other Civs they have double or more cities compared to me and very closely packed together. I had been keeping my cities to only very good terrain squares and helping my culture build till cultural boundries caused city overlap. How many cities should be built and how quickly in a typical easy game with a few Civs on a huge map?
I also have no idea how much of a defense to build at various stages. Do I build 1, 2, 3, or more spearmen etc. for each city? How about workers? What proportion should they be in versus the amount of cities I have... 3 or more per city?
What is the best way to ramp up my scientific and military knowledge? I am following the paths suggested in the Prima guide and seem to be keeping pace or be just behind other Civs but that is still bad considering on Chieftan they have a 200% increase in the time it takes for them to do everything. Do you have a percentage you devote to each cities science output... I have up till now left that as the default or whatever the governor sets it to.
I seem to have the concepts of what I need to do to be successful (at least on the easy Chieftan level) down but I have no clue as to the proportions of each I need to persue. Any suggestions for me or truly beginners guides on the 'net I could read (the Prima guide tells you what everything does which is nice but seems geared to the CivII player transitioning more than to the truly beginner players.)
Thanks so much this board is amazing (so is the game.)
Dave
I finally picked up CivIII (having never played Civ or CivII) and am having a blast getting my butt kicked. I purchased the Prima guide and it helps a lot but I still have a problem getting my Civ ramped up to speed as fast as other Civ even on Chieftan.
My typical problem is I build far to few cities. Often when I discover other Civs they have double or more cities compared to me and very closely packed together. I had been keeping my cities to only very good terrain squares and helping my culture build till cultural boundries caused city overlap. How many cities should be built and how quickly in a typical easy game with a few Civs on a huge map?
I also have no idea how much of a defense to build at various stages. Do I build 1, 2, 3, or more spearmen etc. for each city? How about workers? What proportion should they be in versus the amount of cities I have... 3 or more per city?
What is the best way to ramp up my scientific and military knowledge? I am following the paths suggested in the Prima guide and seem to be keeping pace or be just behind other Civs but that is still bad considering on Chieftan they have a 200% increase in the time it takes for them to do everything. Do you have a percentage you devote to each cities science output... I have up till now left that as the default or whatever the governor sets it to.
I seem to have the concepts of what I need to do to be successful (at least on the easy Chieftan level) down but I have no clue as to the proportions of each I need to persue. Any suggestions for me or truly beginners guides on the 'net I could read (the Prima guide tells you what everything does which is nice but seems geared to the CivII player transitioning more than to the truly beginner players.)
Thanks so much this board is amazing (so is the game.)
Dave