Plz Elaborate on Micro Management

[Unwax]

I'm trying to play on harder lvl's and finding out that how you run your city's
is going to make a big difference on your over all out come.
I don't know how to properly manage city's and the surrounding tiles.
And to let you know I love Domination and don't have a favorit Civ if it matters.
Thank You!!

 

[bonafide11]

I'm trying to play on harder lvl's and finding out that how you run your city's
is going to make a big difference on your over all out come.
I don't know how to properly manage city's and the surrounding tiles.
And to let you know I love Domination and don't have a favorit Civ if it matters.
Thank You!!

Just open your city management city and specialize cities so some prioritize gold, some prioritize science, some prioritize production, etc. Use your workers to build tiles around the cities to shape what you want that city to accomplish. I tend to farm all my cities and build either mines or lumbermills, and then spam trading posts on all my puppet cities.

 

[gozpel]

And also in the city-screen, you can take away a citizen from working a farm and you set him onto a mine, then lock him in there. It's good if you're growing too fast, but don't have enough production.

You can also set your city to "avoid growth", but that is not better than managing your citizens yourself.

 

[Helmling]

Knowing which tiles to improve first can make a big difference, too. You don't want to have too many workers (unless you're rolling in gold per turn) so you've got to be strategic about how to manage their time.

Key thing is, as in all Civ games, population is power. You want to grow as fast as your happiness can support. Once at that limit in the early game, I try to maximize production by picking the right tiles to work.

Oh, and city placement. Rivers equal gold. So do resources. Never build a city unless it gets you a luxury to boost your overall population or other resources that you can sell for cash. Cash, of course, equals either research agreements or city state favor.

My advice is to either read up in the War Academy, or even better, just sit and watch a Let's Play video on YouTube. Watching MadDjinn's videos taught me buckets and buckets.