Outposts, Radar Towers, Fortifications

[Turner]

Very rarely, if I can't get the resource inside the cultural bounderies sooner than I'd like.

 

[The Last Conformist]

I very occasionally build colonies. Fortifications, sometimes, usually on chokepoints.

 

[sausnebb]

I had a useful outpost once. Butt up against another civ I was at war with. I put an outpost on a mountain top and was able to see quite far into the next city. But that didn't make any difference once I took the city.

Why didn't your enemy just go and crush it?

 

[citizen001]

Outposts etc are a waste of worker time, especially during the early game.

 

[Turner]

Why didn't your enemy just go and crush it?

It was rather well defended, and I was on the offensive, so the AI was more concerned about defending against my attackers than taken out my outpost.

Now, if they had the outpost, I would have taken it out first, like I do Radar Towers.

 

[Sid Monster]

They dont use up any worker time, they take up the whole worker