My friends and I all bought Civ 5: Gold Edition and we have been playing multiplayer. I haven't been picking a certain civ, just picking at random. I have been just building great library and hanging gardens and any other wonders from there. None of my friends will attack, and if you declare a war they will sit in their base and spawn troops with all the gold they have and you can't do anything. Ever since I told them I liked building wonders, everyone only builds wonders. Also, I know this is wrong, but I have only been keeping my capital and letting it grow large rather than make other cities. If some of you could give me some good strats and what leader to use them with, that would be awesome.
Need some MP tips/help
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Try to use Tradition's 4 city opening strategy http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=468487
However, in singleplayer this strat works better because you can sell luxury resources to AI. In MP it's hardly anyone buys your lux for gold, so you should try to demand gold from the city-states.
If your friends like to construct wonders, then you are advised to rush them early:
- choose China as your civ
- beeline Construction and meanwhile build 4-5 archers, don't spend your gold, you should accumulate rather big pile of gold for military upgrades
- Upgrade you archers into CBs and rush to kill your closest neighbour
- meanwhile beeline Philosophy in order to build National College after building libraries in all cities
- then beeline to Machinery while spawning more CBs. Don't spend gold!
- Upgrade all your CBs into chinese crossbows
- kill every civ in your neighborhood which tries to build wonders. Seize their wonders for yourself.
Don't be afraid that your friends gang up against you. Just conquer their cities as fast as you can.
Cheers
However, in singleplayer this strat works better because you can sell luxury resources to AI. In MP it's hardly anyone buys your lux for gold, so you should try to demand gold from the city-states.
If your friends like to construct wonders, then you are advised to rush them early:
- choose China as your civ
- beeline Construction and meanwhile build 4-5 archers, don't spend your gold, you should accumulate rather big pile of gold for military upgrades
- Upgrade you archers into CBs and rush to kill your closest neighbour
- meanwhile beeline Philosophy in order to build National College after building libraries in all cities
- then beeline to Machinery while spawning more CBs. Don't spend gold!
- Upgrade all your CBs into chinese crossbows
- kill every civ in your neighborhood which tries to build wonders. Seize their wonders for yourself.
Don't be afraid that your friends gang up against you. Just conquer their cities as fast as you can.
Cheers
Try to use Tradition's 4 city opening strategy http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=468487
However, in singleplayer this strat works better because you can sell luxury resources to AI. In MP it's hardly anyone buys your lux for gold, so you should try to demand gold from the city-states.
If your friends like to construct wonders, then you are advised to rush them early:
- choose China as your civ
- beeline Construction and meanwhile build 4-5 archers, don't spend your gold, you should accumulate rather big pile of gold for military upgrades
- Upgrade you archers into CBs and rush to kill your closest neighbour
- meanwhile beeline Philosophy in order to build National College after building libraries in all cities
- then beeline to Machinery while spawning more CBs. Don't spend gold!
- Upgrade all your CBs into chinese crossbows
- kill every civ in your neighborhood which tries to build wonders. Seize their wonders for yourself.
Don't be afraid that your friends gang up against you. Just conquer their cities as fast as you can.
Cheers
thanks man, are these two different strategies or the same thing?
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The matter is that you can use Tradition's 4 city opening strategy nearly with any civ.
Rushing with CBs and then chinese crossbows is the continuation of the first strategy.
alright thank you, if you dont mind me asking, why is it better to build multiple cities over keeping one large one?
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Because 4 cities let your empire grasp all benefits from completing Tradition social policy branch. At the middle of the game you will have 4 big cities with high production capacity rather than only one city. All other conquered cities can be turned into satellites.
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There are also some VidLP from the multiplayer FFA game where you can learn how to rush when playing as China.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=477635
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=477635
thanks a lot for all the help man, is there any other strategies you can also recommend that I can try out?
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You can try out ICS (infinite city sprawl) strategy when playing as Arabia or Maya.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=473168
It's a heavy expansionist and militaristic strategy. I really like it. However, it's mainly viable only on large maps, where you have lots of space to expand. You should plan to settle not less than 10 cities in order this strategy to be efficient in MP.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=473168
It's a heavy expansionist and militaristic strategy. I really like it. However, it's mainly viable only on large maps, where you have lots of space to expand. You should plan to settle not less than 10 cities in order this strategy to be efficient in MP.
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