Long time lurker, rarely post. I just want to thank everyone who wrote all those articles about becoming a better player. Lots of them helped loads, to get me from a so so Noble level player on Civ 4 Vanilla, to becoming a high scoring player i.e. over 20k. This is after 115 hours invested in the game and quite a few strategy guides and lets play videos watched. The tips I think that helped me the most:
1) Cottage spam may be important, but don't forget to put farms down so your cities can grow.
2) When you build a library, try to set some colonists as scientists to help pop the great people who can then be used to research technologies.
3) Don't build your cities far away from each other. I used to build cities at least 10 tiles away from each other. My thinking being that I would cover more area - the problem with that is actually you want as many cities as possible in a relatively small area so that way you have more money to research etc.
4) Try to conquer at least one civilization before the beginning of 1AD.
5) Keep at least one city building military units - although I did not follow this exactly, it did remind to keep checking the power graph and make sure I was never low on it.
6) Don't be scared to build cities on top of the resource you want. I never realised you could do this and assuming you have the right technology get the resource you wanted, with a penalty applied. In the early game this can be quite important.
I am guessing the leap to Prince/Monarch/Immortal etc will throw all those rules under the bus and I will have the fun of learning new aspects of game play. Not to mention playing warlords and beyond the sword!
Once again thanks for all the great strategies and tips posted around here
1) Cottage spam may be important, but don't forget to put farms down so your cities can grow.
2) When you build a library, try to set some colonists as scientists to help pop the great people who can then be used to research technologies.
3) Don't build your cities far away from each other. I used to build cities at least 10 tiles away from each other. My thinking being that I would cover more area - the problem with that is actually you want as many cities as possible in a relatively small area so that way you have more money to research etc.
4) Try to conquer at least one civilization before the beginning of 1AD.
5) Keep at least one city building military units - although I did not follow this exactly, it did remind to keep checking the power graph and make sure I was never low on it.
6) Don't be scared to build cities on top of the resource you want. I never realised you could do this and assuming you have the right technology get the resource you wanted, with a penalty applied. In the early game this can be quite important.
I am guessing the leap to Prince/Monarch/Immortal etc will throw all those rules under the bus and I will have the fun of learning new aspects of game play. Not to mention playing warlords and beyond the sword!
Once again thanks for all the great strategies and tips posted around here
