How to keep from collapsing.

[cichlid221]

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1. Don't forget to check through all your cities every 20 turns or so.

2. Never overdefend your inner cities and underdefend your outer ones.

3. Save your game often and load if you don't like what's going on.

4. Pay attention to your infrastructure: Often, civilizations have better irrigation, farming, mining, roads, and railroads on the outskirts because the cities there are newer and more modern.

5. Update units in old cities for the same reasons as #4.

6. When you're at war, spread the production out evenly to reduce the strain on smaller outer cities who have to support a lot of stuff.

7. MOST IMPORTANT: Build plenty of radial RR's ASAP. It will reduce the wait between the cities in trade, military, and transport and your units will be effectively "shared" between all the cities.

8. Don't make a strong ring around a weak center: If you get a hole in the ring, the enemy will attack from within.

9. Try to be like an amoeba: Surround and dissolve enemy civs, and NEVER become surrounded.

Finally...

10. Don't treat cities specially just because they're the capital / biggest cities / excellent producers. Build plenty of units in each and every city, including 3 settlers: one to improve terrain, and two to build another city.

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[This message has been edited by cichlid221 (edited December 13, 2000).]

 

[Dell19]

The first 3 tips were good but then I fell asleep and never read the rest! I did really and I think they will be helpful!
Also I would like to say that you should build the buildings and wonders that are the most useful first.

 

[Leowind]

4. Pay attention to your infrastructure: Often, civilizations have better irrigation, farming, mining, roads, and railroads on the outskirts because the cities there are newer and more modern.

I usually manage to keep a few settlers/engineers around the heart of my empire to be continually building irrigation/roads/RRs, etc, to keep them up to date.

Also, its tedious, but I wonder if checking all your cities every 20 turns is often enough. At critical points in the game, more often might be advisable.

Leowind

 

[Dell19]

I usually upgrade the ground around as many of my good cities as possible.
I also I try to upgrade the terain around good cities that I have captured but this takes ages and once I upgrade the terrain around one city I have to do the same around all the others as well. It is like upgrading cities. It takes years to do (when you have around a 100 cities).
Another piece of advice I have would not to build Sdi defences if your enemy is rubbish and will never get nukes.

 

[stellar converter]

well, you cant get more obvious than these tips. if one does not upgrade radius of cities, they will ot win, in most cases. here is a story/tale: what level do the people who come here play on?

 

[VanillaCube]

I usualy have a quota of defence for each of my citys but this is the quota for around the end of the game when I have all tec.
2 moble infantry
city walls
costal fortress
sam missle battery
corthouse
1 armer
1 spy
sdi defence

that is my quota for each city and they are in the order I would build them!




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[stellar converter]

if its occ for me: a chariot or something, a few diplomats, and almost a billion caravans.

oterwise: a couple riflemen(at best)

 

[EntirelyBS]

1 Mobile Infantry, 1 Artillery or Howitzer or Armor, depending on the age of the city and likelihood of it getting attacked by barbarians, and 1 spy

 

[mike]

Defense? I usually spend most/all of my production destroying the other civs so they cant get beyond my initial line of defense, the lack of rail/roads definetly helps,(in the outer lying cities) they cant do anything if they cant get in!!

 

[cichlid221]

I hate it when you have double production on terrain and the settlers keep doing the wrong things because it messes around with their brains. Also, how do you keep auto settlers near your capital?

 

[FearlessLeader2]

Auto-settlers. Sometimes you just have to slap the little effers.

 

[TimTheEnchanter]

Given the way the AI runs it's civs, WHY would you trust it to automate your settlers? Isn't it worth it to move them where you need them and click "R" or "I" every couple turns?

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[Leowind]

I never auto settlers/engineers, except in my last game I had dozens of them running around and got tired of looking for what city needed what nearby, so I automated a couple of them in areas I had complete control over. Never trust the AI!

 

[SunTzu]

I'm closing this and moving it to Civ2 Strategy and Tips.
Wrong forum Cichild.

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