Don't you love it when ...

[dalgo]

you discover Steam Power and search your huge map to find there are just 6 sources of coal - and you have 5 of them! And I'm not sharing either, so there.

Getting to Steam Power is one of the highlights in the game for me. I love building railroads. A full network means you can reduce garrisons and just send troops where they are needed. I remember in my first ever game of civ3 searching for coal in vain. That was before ctrl/shift/M highlighted the map and it was so hard to find. The nearest civ with coal was France but I couldn't see it. Finally found it 400 years later in the shadow of a mountain.

So this time I'm going to make the most of it - I wonder if I can invade and tie up that other coal source too.

 

[Daarkseid]

That's pretty nice. In alot of my games I make it to Steam Power and find that, god damnit, there are no sources of coal in my territory. Not even with the huge jungle I settled in and around. Even before the resource ratio decrease of Conquests. Steam Power always had me anxious because of the tendency to not have any coal.

I chalk it up to badluck mostly.

 

[The Last Conformist]

You better sell some of it; otherwise the others' turf will need RRing when you capture it.

 

[klopolov]

Don't you hate it when coal appears on the only unroaded tile in your territory? Had me swearing at myself for not roading it for quite a few minutes... 50 workers lined up nicely just waiting to build that rr, now I have to move some of them and build the road!!!

 

[cpikey316_]

Don't you hate it when coal appears on the only unroaded tile in your territory? Had me swearing at myself for not roading it for quite a few minutes... 50 workers lined up nicely just waiting to build that rr, now I have to move some of them and build the road!!!

i usually have roads everywhere by this time! i do only play on regent mind

 

[ThePunisher]

You better sell some of it; otherwise the others' turf will need RRing when you capture it.

I wouldn't sell it to them (unless you really need the money or get advances for it?) I think that the lack of a production bonus / slowness of movement they'll suffer is well worth the pause while you RR it yourself (if/when you capture their land)?

Coal is a strategic advantage - hold onto it.

 

[DragonRunner]

I love it when you make a lucrative tech-for-GPT deal with the AI, then ask kindly that they withdraw their scouting warrior out of your territory and they declare war, essentially giving you the tech for free.

 

[Bagatur]

I just got another reason to "love it when" I just stole Replaceble Parts(bcs Im stil laround 6-7 techs behind tech leader), in my first Deity game, to discover, the only one who has Rubber from three strong AIs is this one, who I started to wipe out already All other rubber sources already belong to me)

 

[Chieftess]

Don't you just hate it when you connect your iron, only to have it disappear when a source of coal appears within the same city radii? (not to mention it was your only iron)

 

[bkwrm79]

That was before ctrl/shift/M highlighted the map

I knew there had to be something like that!