TheBirthdayPart
Chieftain
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2006
- Messages
- 17
I can't seem to beat prince. After not succeeding with my normal strategy of not building cottages at all i tried building them in. Previously I never had enough gold. Now trying this a few times I have plenty of gold, but I still can't catch up in tech research. I've tried turning technology trading off, no dice. I play a lot of huge maps, 3 continents, 12 civs, basically a lot of stuff going on. I have to expand fast early too because civs near by rush to block me off from expanding, not to mention they expand fast without seeming to have maintenance issues.
My initial strategy seems sound. Regardless of having mysticism first or not I go for polytheism fast(for hinduism). Then make sure i research roads/agriculture/mining(whichever i don't have), then pottery, then priesthood, then bronze working. During this time i'm exploring(of course), building a warrior for my city, then building a worker. Next another warrior, and a settler. By this time I can get right to the oracle so I can get metal casting with it. Then forge, warrior, setterl, and on to parthenon. From there it can vary.
So how does one keep up with the fast research of the other civs, while having to put a lot into your economic slider(keeping research up high), and expanding?
My initial strategy seems sound. Regardless of having mysticism first or not I go for polytheism fast(for hinduism). Then make sure i research roads/agriculture/mining(whichever i don't have), then pottery, then priesthood, then bronze working. During this time i'm exploring(of course), building a warrior for my city, then building a worker. Next another warrior, and a settler. By this time I can get right to the oracle so I can get metal casting with it. Then forge, warrior, setterl, and on to parthenon. From there it can vary.
So how does one keep up with the fast research of the other civs, while having to put a lot into your economic slider(keeping research up high), and expanding?