Is this gonna be a successful game?

[Boffinbox]

Look at all that gold!

 

[gmaharriet]

Hmmmm.... I foresee a few problems. York is placed in the middle of a lot of gold hills/mountains and the worker is roading one of those mountains. What are the citizens going to eat? A hill only provides one food and each citizen needs two. York will be unable to grow enough to work that gold, and in Civ you can't buy food with gold.

 

[vmxa]

Not sure what the deal is, but you have really only one town at 470BC. That is not a good start. Worse you have the capitol on the coast.

I do not like that unless it is an island, because you have no land on one side.
Not sure how you got to Lit and the GLB with one town either.

The name of the game is to expand like crazy until you have to slow down.

 

[Sweetchuck]

Clear and irrigate that tile just above the two irons. That will give you a little bit of food, maybe enough to sustain a couple of gold mines.

Don't expect York to turn into a metropolis, though.

 

[Yoda Power]

No, you have only build one city. Unless you're playing on some very low level, this game is domed.

 

[GuitarHero]

Expand in the Northwest. It seems to be very fertile. And productive.

 

[Tasslehoff]

You've got one foodless city and one really powerful city that's wasting it's time building a wonder instead of pumping out settlers. On Regent, maybe Monarch, and above, this game will be bad.

 

[Aabraxan]

Welcome to CFC, Boffinbox!

In the early game, the cow and wheat (N & NE of London, respectively) would have been far more valuable to you than the gold.

 

[Boffinbox]

Ive been playing til 6:00 PM GMT and York has been stuck on 2 for 3 hours now and I am on Cheiftain difficulty

 

[iambenben]

keep york it will turn into a goldmine (yeah corny joke, ever seen 8 legged freaks with the town dependant on the gold mine, thats what you could make york into)

btw you are lucky to have that much iron in one place, i never get two locations that close

 

[Aabraxan]

York is done growing. Two food from the city square and one each from 2 hills is only 4 food. That's enough to support 2 citizens, with no food surplus. In the early game, food is king. If you haven't done so already, plant a city up near the cow, wheat and spices, water the cow and wheat and watch how fast it grows.

 

[Globex]

You are at 470 BC, and you only have 2 cities? Even at Chieftain you are in a bad position. Gold can't feed your people or equip your soldiers. It won't help you when your enemies come marching to your doorstep demanding tribute.

You seriously need to:
1. Build more cities
2. Explore your surroundings and make contact with your neighbors
3. Understand that food, luxuries, and strategic resources are more important than gold.
4. Read Ision's article on wonder addiction: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/strategy/wonder_addiction.php
5. Read Cracker's article on opening play skills: http://www.civfanatics.com/civ3/strategy/cracker/civ3_starts/index.htm

 

[MAS]

Gold can't feed your people or equip your soldiers. It won't help you when your enemies come marching to your doorstep demanding tribute.

Actually, gold will help when your enemies start demanding tribute.

 

[ALA Gator]

You are off to a slow start. You need more cities. As suggested above you should read some of the articles about early empire managaement and growth and start this game over. Or play it out and see why you need to concentrate on expansion early.

 

[Brohz]

I would have built London une square to the west, that way it would have had fresh water, wheat, and a cow, not to mention those two iron hills. You could have a settler factory that later could have a great production.

 

[Globex]

Actually, gold will help when your enemies start demanding tribute.

You have a point there but I think that equipping your vast population with iron weapons and raining fury down upon your rivals is a better alternative than giving into their ridiculous demands. Unless you are on the higher levels when that would just be suicide.

 

[Gosnork]

I'd recommend restarting by clicking Play Last World, assuming you haven't already started a different game. That is an amazing location, but a terrible start. You haven't expanded nearly enough, and London would be a great settler pump. Your second city should go to the NW, and I would place multiple cities on the edges of those hills that contain the gold, so that you can still take advantage of all the gold, but also have productive core cities.

If you keep going it looks like you will have to make a strong defensive military and ally nations against those that are near you in order to gain land.

 

[iambenben]

i would have kept the game going just for the fact that hopefully those hills may have resources such as iron and saltpeter, coal and possibly uranium(i think you get them on hills)

 

[LLXerxes]

keep york it will turn into a goldmine

Unfortuantely, there will be no people to work those gold mines because the population can not grow.

Cut down the forrest above the iron. Then irrigate. When you switch governments from Despotism, that space will provide 3 food.

 

[Queen of Swords]

I would have built London une square to the west, that way it would have had fresh water

That's a good point. As it is, now you'll have to build an aqueduct in London. Those are shields that could be spent on a military or settlers.