City Locations

[ZzarkLinux]

Post a picture of what you see now. I'm still practicing dotmapping.
Maybe shrink the picture slightly with paint or w/e.

I shrunk the following 2 pictures.
- The red cross is the "City Radius", where the 5 citizens can work.
- The blue circles show the actual tiles the 4 citizens work (the entertainer does nothing...)

Make some rules for yourself:
- cities cannot have more than 3 tiles between them.
- make sure that every tile a citizen works has a road (at least).
- Don't build more than 1-2 ancient age wonders. Remember that 1 Great Wall = 10 swordsmen...

 

[Sweetchuck]

Is that one happy citizen, three content citizens and one entertainer?

If so, why the entertainer?

 

[ZzarkLinux]

why the entertainer?

Because it's an AI Those screenies is from a succession game (I think Ancient Romans), where the AI is 1 shield short of finishing the Colussus !!

 

[Theov]

On the left is coastal cities.
I still can't figure out what tile has fresh water. Can you see how the river flows at the mountain???
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What do you think is the best position? I can't figure out.
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The gems are sexy also. That's why.

 

[Othniel]

I still can't figure out what tile has fresh water. Can you see how the river flows at the mountain???

An easy way to figure out if a tile is on a river (not a lake) is to simply right-click on the tile. If it has a +1 gold value without a road than it is on the river. If it has a base value of 0 gold, that it is not on the river and thus no fresh water access. Note that if you are a Republic, a river tile would have a base rating of +2 gold value without a road.

 

[TheOverseer714]

I'd settle on the hill the warrior is standing on. I'd also put one SW of the sword on the mountain to claim the rest of the gems. Nice set of jungle gems.

 

[Theov]

I'd settle on the hill the warrior is standing on. I'd also put one SW of the sword on the mountain to claim the rest of the gems. Nice set of jungle gems.

What is "one SW of the sword"?
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Yeah it's 4 gems within one uhm... radius. (under the slave there's also gems) I could make a super-moneymake city out of it.

 

[ThinkTank]

What is "one SW of the sword"?

SW = South-West.

One other thing: clearing jungle takes a long time. You should use stacks of workers to do this instead of single workers. At the city in the left bottom of the picture, I see 3 jungle tiles being worked by 1, 2 and 3 workers respectively (and it looks like there are additional single workers working the jungle tiles just outside the picture). You should join the workers on one tile and work that tile. Example: clearing jungle takes 24 worker turns (16 if you're industrious). If you let 6 workers do 3 tiles with 2 workers each, after 12 turns you will have cleared 3 tiles; only then will your town start having a benefit from the extra food of the cleared tiles, but likely only 1 of them, it will need to grow first for taking advantage of the 2nd and 3rd cleared tile. If you make a stack of 6 workers and let them clear the jungle tile by tile, then after 4 turns you have ceared the 1st tile, so your town can already benefit from additional growth after 4 turns.

 

[Theov]

SW = South-West.

One other thing: clearing jungle takes a long time. You should use stacks of workers to do this instead of single workers. At the city in the left bottom of the picture, I see 3 jungle tiles being worked by 1, 2 and 3 workers respectively (and it looks like there are additional single workers working the jungle tiles just outside the picture). You should join the workers on one tile and work that tile. Example: clearing jungle takes 24 worker turns (16 if you're industrious). If you let 6 workers do 3 tiles with 2 workers each, after 12 turns you will have cleared 3 tiles; only then will your town start having a benefit from the extra food of the cleared tiles, but likely only 1 of them, it will need to grow first for taking advantage of the 2nd and 3rd cleared tile. If you make a stack of 6 workers and let them clear the jungle tile by tile, then after 4 turns you have ceared the 1st tile, so your town can already benefit from additional growth after 4 turns.

Thanks for the tips. I usually use stacks of ~3. I guess I'll make that 6.