How many Cities?

[trada]

Hi, I am new to Civ 1 but already addicted.
How many Cities do you usually build?
Cause I have max 4 up to middle ages and I am wondering if this is too few?
Thanks.

 

[Matrix]

Much too few!

Build as much as possible as long as you're able to defend. That's the trick.

It is very important to build cities as soon as possible, because the earlier they are built, the more productive they will be in the future.

 

[trada]

Thanks.
(thank goodness this forum is still active!)

 

[Lazarus Plus]

Actually, your best bet is a suicidal level of expansion. Your core cities are meant to build improvements and settlers, but no troops. Let your outer cities build garrisons and settlers as they grow, but no improvements unless your expansion outwards starts to slow.

 

[Mongols_rule]

I'd have at least 20 cities if I were you. And then sail all around the world and expand.

 

[Valen]

You quit building cities when your advisor says
"Sire our administrators cannot handle so many cities ..."
or something to that effect.

 

[Mongols_rule]

Approx. how many cities did you have when it said that?

 

[Blanco [Adone]]

30 cities at AD 1 is standard for an emperor.

 

[Mongols_rule]

How do you expand so fast? I can only get like, 10 cities at 1 AD. I'm a n00b.

 

[Blanco [Adone]]

Of course it depends by terrains too.. When i have bad terrains, i usually build 20 cities to Ad 1.. It's easy, U must build only cities, no irrigations.. When U have 20 cities or more U may build roads, irrigations, at all U may extend your infra-structure and crash an AI

In the meantime, of course, occurs the unhappines problem, so build the phalanx in bigger cities..

 

[Mongols_rule]

When you build a lot of cities, are they close together or far away? Can you get a screenshot or something and show me what good civ expansion looks like?

 

[Blanco [Adone]]

About space between cities determine terrains. Sure, i'll put the screenshot of my game here.

 

[Valen]

The games allows 128 cities worldwide - yours plus all others.
You get the "cannot handle more" message when you try to exceed that.
In a "large landmass" world, I have the limit and only about the last 10 cities or so are packed so tight they can't support 10 people each (smallest supports 7).