Details of a Golden Age
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Golden ages add 1 
to every tile which already produces it, the same goes for commerce. Also in BTS there is no anarchy during golden age no matter how many civics you are switching. It's certainly worth a greate person (or even 2, 3, 4...) though you might have better uses for him at the moment; just like everything else in this game it depends on circumstances.
to every tile which already produces it, the same goes for commerce. Also in BTS there is no anarchy during golden age no matter how many civics you are switching. It's certainly worth a greate person (or even 2, 3, 4...) though you might have better uses for him at the moment; just like everything else in this game it depends on circumstances.Ok thanks!
They're often worth it, especially when you're in a sprint towards a break-out tech (e.g. Lib->MilTrad), or in the Space Race. You want to maximise your population pre-Golden Age. Every Golden Age makes the next one more expensive, so you don't want to have one too early. An interesting option is to start a Golden Age and use the +100% GPP to generate Great People for a second consecutive GA (works best with Mausoleum of Mausollos).
One tactic is to use Music Great artist (if can get to it 1st) for 1st GA and run Caste (civic) during GA (in biggest cities running as many specialists, as possible, also using food storage and few times can even starve city down - you can have 15 scientists, 0 worked tile and no food left in storage but city still will shrink just by 1 population/turn - might be good enough to get that extra GPerson).
Some times just playing the game can answer these kind of questions. Add a great person and just start a golden age. You'll soon notice the differences.
There is a 'condensed tips for beginners' for these kind of questions. If you really want proper help on your game play you need to upload a save as suggested before. it sounds like your basic gameplay is missing a lot of fundamentals. If you google issues you will find a lot of historic threads not linked to this section. They can't keep every old thread linked. A lot of these questions have been asked over the years.
Another idea is to google 'civ 4 monarch cookbooks'. It shows how players played out the early stages of the game. That or look up civ 4 playthroughs on Youtube.
http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Golden_Age_(Civ4)
There is a 'condensed tips for beginners' for these kind of questions. If you really want proper help on your game play you need to upload a save as suggested before. it sounds like your basic gameplay is missing a lot of fundamentals. If you google issues you will find a lot of historic threads not linked to this section. They can't keep every old thread linked. A lot of these questions have been asked over the years.
Another idea is to google 'civ 4 monarch cookbooks'. It shows how players played out the early stages of the game. That or look up civ 4 playthroughs on Youtube.
http://civilization.wikia.com/wiki/Golden_Age_(Civ4)
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Wow! I may try, but seems a bit risky!
Ive seen the condensed tips for beginners, I belive I even have it in my notes. I look up play throughs by Quill18 and Chris67132. I just never really proiritized having GAs because it looked not worth a GP.
Well a good golden age can create 2-3 great scientists. If you use free artist from music it is certainly worth it. 2-3 great scientists could mean bulbing edu and lib in one go. The larger your empire the bigger the boost from a golden age. Typically I could have 7-12 cities by time I use a golden age. On a conquest game you could have 20+ cities. +1 commerce and +1 hammer on tiles that already have commerce and hammers could be huge. Remember these bonuses come before multipliers. So if your capital has an academy then the bonus is much greater.
Overall best way of learning this game is either playing it or by learning from others playing it. I learnt much of what I know today from reading this forum or by playing games with others. The Monarch cookbooks were a great way to learn. When I ran them we could have 7-8 players playing from 4000bc to 1500bc. It was always fun to just see how differently everyone played. In those days even Kossin was taking part. I liked to think we trained up a generation of great good civ players. That with Noble Club and other participation games on this forum.
Overall best way of learning this game is either playing it or by learning from others playing it. I learnt much of what I know today from reading this forum or by playing games with others. The Monarch cookbooks were a great way to learn. When I ran them we could have 7-8 players playing from 4000bc to 1500bc. It was always fun to just see how differently everyone played. In those days even Kossin was taking part. I liked to think we trained up a generation of great good civ players. That with Noble Club and other participation games on this forum.
Participation games would be cool! To bulb Edu, and Lib would be great, thanks for the tips.
What kind of risk do you mean?
Shrinking cities
Well, you don't need to shrink your cities. You can manage it so, that at the start of the golden age, the food bar is full or close to full. During the GA you work only high food tiles and specialists. When the food bar is close to being empty, you either start working so many food tiles, that the city doesn't shrink, or you stop working food tiles at all and go 100% specialists and shrink. Depends on what you need. There is no risk involved whatsoever.
Fantastic! Nice info
Well, you don't need to shrink your cities. You can manage it so, that at the start of the golden age, the food bar is full or close to full. During the GA you work only high food tiles and specialists. When the food bar is close to being empty, you either start working so many food tiles, that the city doesn't shrink, or you stop working food tiles at all and go 100% specialists and shrink. Depends on what you need. There is no risk involved whatsoever.
