newbie help !!

[J Smith]

Hi,

Just got Civ 3, played about 5 games.

BUT

Im proper ****. the tutorials really really crap at helping me out - i play for a while and all i get is the domestic advisor saying "the treasury is low". i just never seem to have any money and i dont know how to progress in the game

basically, what i do is find a spot for a city, build it, build a few workers. then i get the workers to do roads an irrigation on every spot in the city, then go and build another city and do the same. at the same choosing the research etc and scouting out the land/making a coupla warriors.,

what should i be doing

please help
James

 

[panav]

You should look for gold , resources to trade to other civs, gems, ...all this = money.

trading techs with other civs is also a good idea.

 

[nikitos]

hold off building workers until you have a few cities, build a settler asap and start more cities. Expand quickly, that's a key. Dont irrigate with your free worker, build mines and roads instead until you get to monarchy. Have fun!

 

[eMarkM]

A couple of suggestions on starting out.

Don't wait until you have one city with every tile improved before starting another city. That's a waste in the beginning and you're going to get creamed doing that. You're not getting any $$ because you're waiting too long to found new cities. More cities = more $$.

First, only as many tiles as you have population in the city get worked so all that extra improvement goes for naught because you won't have the pop to support it. Go to city view and you'll see which tiles are being worked. Those are the only ones you should put improvements on at first. It should only be 3-4 tiles at most. But even then I would suggest at the very beginning to ignore all tile improvements except for roads. Roads are critical in the early game and should be priority #1.

Build a settler as soon as the first city goes to population of 3, you need to start new cities very quickly or you'll be overrun by the AI. Take that settler and found your next city. Have worker build roads between cities, nothing else. When that 2nd city goes to pop of 3, build settler, when the new city that that settler founds goes to 3, build settler...you get the idea. Keep cranking out settlers and founding new cities until you've run into other civ's borders. Tile improvement should take a back seat to rapid expansion.

Generally the first things you have your first few cities build are: warrior (for garrison), warrior (for exploring), settler. Then maybe a temple. Don't build a lot of workers in the beginning. You only need 1-2 to make roads to connect your cities in your fledgling empire. Only once you have a good 5-6 cities that each have 4-6 pop should you think about more than 2 workers and tile improvements.

The early game is all about expansion, not making each city perfect. Expand your empire and borders by building cities as quickly as possible. Don't stop until your surrounded by other civs borders. Once your expansion is halted, THEN you can really concentrate on developing the city tiles and building your internal infrastructure.

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