Going from singe player to multi player

[stii]

Are there any guides out there on this topic? Given that a single game takes quite a long time I don't want to end up in a terrible position right at the start because I'm used to the AI being awful.

Things like needing to guard workers for example.

 

[EEE_BOY]

The sticky KM's post is a good MP guild.

 

[Nukes R Us]

I went from AI to Multi, and was immediately ahead of everyone always. Nobody seems to think science is important. FOCUS ON SCIENCE AND YOU WILL WIN

 

[Tabarnak]

FOCUS ON SCIENCE AND YOU WILL WIN

Agree. But best players can do everything at once. Science, gold, production, units, etc. EVERYTHING! ^^

 

[Nukes R Us]

The best players can do everything at once. Yet, if you do not have the technology to build the buildings that increase all areas, it doesn't matter what you can do. FOCUS ON SCIENCE.


Oh and, Never, and I mean absolutely for no reason do the "Convert 25% to ????"
That means, if you do that for 10 turns, it is like your city sat there doing nothing for almost 8 turns. I don't care how bad you want to buy that shiny swordsmen, or how much you want the new ipod 5, DO NOT CONVERT

 

[Islandia]

The best players can do everything at once. Yet, if you do not have the technology to build the buildings that increase all areas, it doesn't matter what you can do. FOCUS ON SCIENCE.

How exactly does one focus on science without building up population and infrastructure. Civ 5 more than any previous version of civ has disassociated commerce and technology, making population the proxy for technological advancement. As a result, to progress fast in science, you have to as Tab said be good at everything

 

[EEE_BOY]

How exactly does one focus on science without building up population and infrastructure. Civ 5 more than any previous version of civ has disassociated commerce and technology, making population the proxy for technological advancement. As a result, to progress fast in science, you have to as Tab said be good at everything

Great people are deviations from population. Religion kind also mess up things for comparison.

 

[Nukes R Us]

15 population with +10% science is not near as good as 10 population with +70% science. Once you advance in science, build food buildings after you have built science buildings. You can ALWAYS be building a science building, there aren't enough of them to build!

Online, Science literally FsTW

 

[Islandia]

15 population with +10% science is not near as good as 10 population with +70% science. Once you advance in science, build food buildings after you have built science buildings. You can ALWAYS be building a science building, there aren't enough of them to build!

Online, Science literally FsTW

On the contrary with no other buildings a 15 pop town with 10% generates 16.5 beakers and a 10 pop town with 70% generates 17 beakers. Hardly a difference and definitely not a big one. The comparison becomes much worse if you throw in libraries. 15 town generates 25.9 beakers and 10 town generates 25.5 beakers. Public schools help the higher pop town even more.

10 pop town doesn't deserve the national college which is the only way you will get 70% science before research labs or observatory. Library and public schools directly tie to population.

Food buildings add to everything as long as you have the happiness to support it. Those and production buildings should almost always be prioritized over science buildings given the choice.

Are you mostly playing public games? You can do anything and win most of those type of games.

 

[KiffeLesBiffles]

Yes ! build libraries in pop 2 cities !

 

[Nukes R Us]

I don't have any friends who play civilization, so Yep public games. Obviously they can't do anything and win, because they can't beat me :b

 

[Gucumatz]

Nukes - in that case try joining one of the many civ 5 Steam groups?

Almost all of them are more competitive than regular public games and if you get to know them no dealing with quitters .

Various groups out there, NQ, Civplayers, All DLC, EAA, etc.

 

[Foffaren]

I'm prepaired to agree with Is and Tab. Going science with these people will get you killed faster than if you try and balance it out.

If you find a group of people to play with you will learn their playstyle and how to counter it. I've always thought of myself as a peacemaker but the more I play with a certain group of people, the more warmonger I become. Shows mostly in my GMR games.

 

[Nukes R Us]

The problem with joining one of these groups are, they may want a bit of activity. I can only play online maybe once a month at the MOST because I have a limited data plan (never get Verizon. Ever) so I would not be a very active player in the group

 

[Islandia]

The problem with joining one of these groups are, they may want a bit of activity. I can only play online maybe once a month at the MOST because I have a limited data plan (never get Verizon. Ever) so I would not be a very active player in the group

It is hard to make grand pronouncements about sound multiplayer strategy if you play only once a month. So you've at most played 2 games of G&K so far? As far as I know, NQ has no activity requirement and you can find a game most times of the day in the NQ lobby. If limited data is a problem, then I highly suggest playing a game via GMR which is turn based and requires only the download of the save file once a day (approximately 500k- 1MB).

 

[Nukes R Us]

It is hard to make grand pronouncements about sound multiplayer strategy if you play only once a month. So you've at most played 2 games of G&K so far? As far as I know, NQ has no activity requirement and you can find a game most times of the day in the NQ lobby. If limited data is a problem, then I highly suggest playing a game via GMR which is turn based and requires only the download of the save file once a day (approximately 500k- 1MB).

I don't yet have gods and kings My first pay check though, I am going to get it. (If I don't spend all my money on gas being around the girl I like )

 

[stii]

Well I guess I got some answers even if half of them were from a guy who beats everyone but can't play more than once a month and doesn't have G&K.

 

[Nukes R Us]

Yea how dare someone who wins give you tips! Who is this jerk, let me have a piece of him

 

[stii]

Turns out anyone on the internet can claim to win.

This means for the advice to be useful you need to be able to explain and justify yourself.

 

[Nukes R Us]

For the advise to be useful, it has to help when used :b