krossingkhory
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2025
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So I get the general strategy in the early game to create a bunch of Warriors to explore (unless you have the Scout), and use workers to build roads, and then generate a boatload of Settlers to colonize whatever island/continent you are on. I generally use Settlers to colonize the entire coastline early, primarily to prevent other Civs who end up with Mapmaking early from landing ashore and trying to take over my land. But that's not what I'm here for, so I'll stop digressing. 
At some point during the early game - and by early, I mean during Ancient times - I'll run out of stuff to build in my cities. I'll have Barracks, Granary, Temple, Walls, Harbor, and (more than likely in my capital city) multiple world wonders. I'll have built Pyramids, The Oracle, Great Lighthouse, and the Colossus. And then...I have nothing to build but Wealth. Sure, I can generate Settlers and Workers if I haven't gotten the entire continent yet. But if I'm on an island, or the continent is as settled as it can be (and I do take steps to plant cities close enough to the other Civs to take them over culturally)...now what? Wait until I can build something else, letting my cities fall into Civil Disorder and hoping I can remember how many happy people I've generated in each city?
Does anyone have any strategies they can impart upon me to alleviate this situation? Anything I should (or shouldn't) do to potentially not build so darned fast? Any technologies I should be going after to make sure I always have something else to build? I know I should go after Construction early, if only for the Aqueduct (and/or the Colosseum). But beyond that...???

At some point during the early game - and by early, I mean during Ancient times - I'll run out of stuff to build in my cities. I'll have Barracks, Granary, Temple, Walls, Harbor, and (more than likely in my capital city) multiple world wonders. I'll have built Pyramids, The Oracle, Great Lighthouse, and the Colossus. And then...I have nothing to build but Wealth. Sure, I can generate Settlers and Workers if I haven't gotten the entire continent yet. But if I'm on an island, or the continent is as settled as it can be (and I do take steps to plant cities close enough to the other Civs to take them over culturally)...now what? Wait until I can build something else, letting my cities fall into Civil Disorder and hoping I can remember how many happy people I've generated in each city?
Does anyone have any strategies they can impart upon me to alleviate this situation? Anything I should (or shouldn't) do to potentially not build so darned fast? Any technologies I should be going after to make sure I always have something else to build? I know I should go after Construction early, if only for the Aqueduct (and/or the Colosseum). But beyond that...???