Originally posted by Supernaut
I first played CIV on a version that didn't allow the mouse to work (never entirely sure what went wrong there) so I had great fun churning out milita endlessly The worst bit was that even when I learnt the key commands, I could not create entertainers, which made happiness control difficult.QUOTE]
That was exactly my situation, but I didn't learn the keyboard commands until I had already found a version that the mouse worked for. Instead, I had a simple strategy: The first city would build settlers until improvements were available. The next few cities would build phalanxes. They would eventually have civil disorder or do something similar to let me change the production. Basically, I would build a city for each type of military unit I wanted, and either the city would let me change it at some point by having a disaster or civil disorder, or something, or it would run out of production and I could ignore it. Since I wanted to be able to switch a lot of cities if I started a major war, the majority of them were busy cranking out diplomats, settlers, and improvements constantly. Pathetic AI and fairly low difficulty level let me expand like the plague. Basically, the inner cities would all end up uselessly outdated every time I had to start war production, so I had to keep expanding. It made the game really weird, as I said already.
Newbie question: "I built the SS structual wonder. Why isn't it letting me launch my spaceship?" - (me when I first played Civ 2
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The worst bit was that even when I learnt the key commands, I could not create entertainers, which made happiness control difficult.
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