Hi, I usually don't play with the Republic but recently I tried and my civs suck with it. I always have a lot of debt little scientific discovery and unhappiness. I play on warlord now, and I'm thinking of giving the Republic one more try. I ALWAYS have the republic first, due to the one trick (alphabet, writing, code of laws, philosphy, republic). I only have one question for the people who LOVE the REPUBLIC, and say its so AWESOME. Can you people help me out in improving my game, and decreasing my frustration?
Republic
- Thread starter Cbass3k
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punkbass2000
Des An artiste
Post a save and screenshot. The answer is probably going to be 'build more roads'.
I would start by reading:
Governments
Monarchy, Democracy, or Communism?
Government Type
and
Governments.
That should give you a pretty good idea on how to use Republic.
Governments
Monarchy, Democracy, or Communism?
Government Type
and
Governments.
That should give you a pretty good idea on how to use Republic.
Cbass, the short answer is that you need more marketplaces & libraries (and roads, of course), to counter your higher unit-support costs. You do not want to go directly to republic, not even monarchy, without preparation. Larger cities (as opposed to towns) also helps.
Aggie
Deity
What Turner said. I was almost going to start my 'My Republic is best in almost every situation' speech again.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
I'm with Aggie.
Doc Tsiolkovski
Deity
So do I 
Take a look there:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=102706
If you are a lot at war, Monarchy is better.
But USUALLY: Republic is the better choice.
In my game (see link) however, I decided to chose Monarchy. Perhaps your situation is similar. You can compare two savegames of the same turn, one in Monarchy, one in Republic.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=102706
If you are a lot at war, Monarchy is better.
But USUALLY: Republic is the better choice.
In my game (see link) however, I decided to chose Monarchy. Perhaps your situation is similar. You can compare two savegames of the same turn, one in Monarchy, one in Republic.
Aggie
Deity
I wage a lot of wars - I consider conqeuring the world the fastest way to a win-, but in most games I can keep the level of war weariness relatively low. When you are able to strike swiftly and decisively war weariness is less of an issue. So it's too easy to say that a lot of wars means Monarchy or Communism. It really depends. Always-War games are different. Then you can't make peace and war weariness would hit the roof in a Republic government.
Doc Tsiolkovski
Deity
Even with maximum WW Republic may still be superior to Monarchy - see France in Napoleonic Europe.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
While I don't know if I agree with your example, but one time during the beta I was playing a game in which war weariness was at maximum in the republic. That was no fun at all. I switched to communism because sometimes a civ would declare war on my for no reason (the old beta "frigate bug") and everytrhing fell to pieces for a turn. My research was slower, my people just as unhappy, my income the same, and I was more corrupt. I had to work on infrustructure in a war where I was losing on two fronts to gain pre communism levels.Doc Tsiolkovski said:
Of course after developing my nation communism was superior for the war time, but it was not worth all the effort put into it.
