Connecting Conquered Cities

[General Starkey]

Ive been playing Civ for a while.. but im still not very good at it.
Im currently playing as the English and I have conquered the Maya and the Zulu and now have a very large empire. The only problem is that all my new cities are reallllly bad on production, commerce etc. and their borders aren't growing so they are all separated.
So i was just wondering if any of you knew how to fix these things.
Thanks.
General Starkey.

 

[TruePurple]

Rush a culture producer & courthouse. If corruption is still bad then replace mines with irrigation and use specialists.

 

[Shadzy19]

Rush the cheapest culture building and if its to far away from you'r capital just irrigate everything and use specialist like truepurple said , if you are going to change to communism though and its not to far away i would go with the same as normal cities.

 

[TruePurple]

Oh, wait a turn so you have 1 production before you rush else it costs twice as much.

 

[Brain]

Oh, wait a turn so you have 1 production before you rush else it costs twice as much.

You can disband a warrior to get 2 shields and then rush. It's a tactic sometimes used in always war games.

 

[gmaharriet]

You can disband a warrior to get 2 shields and then rush. It's a tactic sometimes used in always war games.

So you get the discount even on the 1st turn?????

 

[vmxa]

Another thing is to look at the distances between those cpatured cities. If it is really large, you may want to abandon a few and stick in new ones that do not need any culture.

Often it is best to raze those cities and get the free workers.

 

[Bluemofia]

Build your own cities to connect them. Use the food to make specialists.

 

[Brain]

So you get the discount even on the 1st turn?????

That's correct.