I want to like, I really do, but.....

[eoc]

Agree.
Roads need maintaining made my worker always do nothing but wait for money.
Luxuries is important than food, it can reduce speed of building new cities, and can made me lose.
I conceded one game because of annexing 4 Rome cities. I was over, while Rome still alive.
The great scientist becomes a "bulldozer driver", building something like a tomb on tiles for increasing 5 points of tech, which made him cost 50 turns.
As far as I know, techs points mainly depend on how many populations, and 5 populations is worthy of a great scintist.
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Actually, I haven't finished a game yet. I feel I am not so addict to Civ 5 just as Civ 4. Maybe I have got old, I am almost 28 years old already, and blunt at playing a totally new game.

 

[teeman11]

So I got in a few more hours and it has a grown on me a little bit. I had a little of the "one more turn" syndrome going. I had a few deals all end on the same turn and therefore had some serious happy issues. So there was a mad scramble to correct that. Problem was no one wanted to trade. I thought, ok you don't want to give me some resources, I just go take them. Go to war, crash the enemy annex the first city which had to lux resources I didn't have. Unhappy got worse. Ok lets try puppeting the next city, which had lux one lux resource. Unhappy still got worse than before.

Finally decided to except a crazy trade with Monty for 1 lux giving up gold, open borders and I think 3., maybe 4 resources which I had multiples of. Now, I don't know if this is a bug or what but after the trade my unhappy got worse. I look at my happy and I'm now missing some resources. I had 4 sugars, traded one but now I have none when I mouse over the happy icon??!!

 

[remconius]

Happyness is a major factor in civ 5.

Last night I puppeted 4 cities (didnt want to raze or annex) and this drove my unhappiness to -6. It wasnt so bad to be honest. Growth slows down which is fine because you dont want to grow and get more uhappy. Production and gold are fine, so get rid of all surplus food and focus on production and gold. Then build a few happy buildings and there you go again.