general opening strategy: noobish question

[Gliese 581]

I looked at a price comparison page for Sweden. BTS costs approximately 18 dollars here.

 

[UWHabs]

Sometimes I wish I had no CivIII experience at all. Worker first always seemed like a dumb thing but starts making sense now.

Yeah, in all of civ 1/2/3, worker (or settler) first was never useful. It's taken me time, but I think I've learned now how useful it actually is. Some rare cases I'll go with like a scout or workboat first, but in general, a settler first is very useful.

 

[Abegweit]

Sometimes I wish I had no CivIII experience at all. Worker first always seemed like a dumb thing but starts making sense now.

Difference is that in CivIII, you HAD a worker first.

 

[Gliese 581]

Difference is that in CivIII, you HAD a worker first.

I remember sometimes getting 2 settlers in Civ1 playing on chieftain. This seemed to be a random event, pretty gamebreaking.
Of course, settlers was workers then as well.

Btw I miss the feature since then until CIV to add a settler/worker to the population of a city. Would be great in the later preindustrial era when your workers are just building roads everywhere and sometimes are doing nothing at all.

 

[BayouFunk]

If I see BtS being sold in a store I'll probably buy it, assuming it's not like $40. Games are so expensive...

I picked it up at Target for $20 about a month ago.

 

[§L¥ Gµ¥]

I let mine grow to size 2 before I build the worker. My rationale is that I'm generally beelining to BW, and in the time it takes to build a warrior or a scout [in the odd case fishing boat], my city grows that one size anyway, meaning I've got an extra tile and an extra few hammers. Plus, with BW, I now have the ability to whip just under half of that worker's build-time. I figure I shave the most time off that worker build this way, without sacrificing a scouting trip to find my second city-spot.

Usually my opening strategy works for the capital build : warrior or scout -> worker -> settler -> worker. Techs being the beeline to BW, followed by appropriate worker techs.
Getting that second city going and making it a hammer powerhouse makes an early rush all that more appealing, 2 workers for 2 cities is a good pace for growth. And as soon as both cities have barracks and maybe 5 chop/whip-rushed axes, it's off to war running an economy based completely based on the capture of enemy cities. As long as I'm not hemmed in by protective civs, or isolated, I can usually have 1.5-2 opponents eliminated before 1AD.

I like playing the bully...