Looking for Screencaps

Ephebe22

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Does anyone have screencaps showing specialized cities? Ideally I'd like to see cities at various stages of development. I feel like I'm not optimizing any of my cities. Id like to see what the pros are doing that I'm not.
 
Here's an example of a high production city:

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I don't have stages of it, but it's not hard to explain. Basically, a production city needs enough food to support as many citizens as possible whilst throwing down mines on the hills and workshops on the plains/grasslands. This one is one of my better ones, with 78 base production, but's it's not a record. If there was a nice long snaky river in the fat cross you can add +1 hammer per river tile with a levee.

The most important buildings in that city are + helath buildings, ironworks, and enough happiness to support those citizens. I didn't build the science and gold multiplying buildings because they simply don't have much of anything to multiply, better to spend those hammers on bullets or shiniy wonders. You can see on the left all the wonders I've built in that city. They're hard to resist when it only takes 6 or 7 turns to build!

As far as other cities, just replace workshops/mines with cottages for a commerce city, or all farms and run as many specialists as possible for a GP farm. Be careful though, all cities need at least some production so you can build the needed buildings.
 
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