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[fwfessly]

Hello

Every game i have been playing on civ 3 i only use the science bar, in my monarch game i only put the lux bar at 10-20 percent after i built my 7th city and never touch it again.

I know that using entertainers, tax, scienc ect.. reduces city growth even straves the city, shield, commerce production.

I should the luxury be set and when?

When should i start creating entertainers, taxmen or scientists and still keep my city growing without rioting?

I also found that later in the game (Industrial age) on monarch i am having difficulty overtaking the AI. So what is the best way of becoming the tech leader?

Thanks

 

[Dwarven Zerker]

When should i start creating entertainers, taxmen or scientists and still keep my city growing without rioting?

I also found that later in the game (Industrial age) on monarch i am having difficulty overtaking the AI. So what is the best way of becoming the tech leader?

Use the luxury slider earlier in the game. Instead of costing you food, shields & gold by making an entertainer all you're doing is "spending" a little gold from your taxes to accomplish the same thing - content & happy citizens.

When is it time to use specialists to control rioting? That's up to you but basically when it's less expensive for the empire than for the city. This usually occurs after you have your core at full strength.

I'm able to catch up and pass the AI during the middle ages on Monarch. I'm almost always the first into the Industrial Age and usually last to leave the Ancient Age. The trick is to optimize and grow your cities to peak performance. Increase your income as much as possible through larger cities (more pop = more income obviously) and start trading techs as early as you can. This usually doesn't happen until late ancient or early middle ages for me and then it's because I happened to choose a tech the AI's didn't get.

Broker the techs you do get and protect your contacts until the bitter end. The AI doesn't do suicide missions with it's navy so once you make contact with another ciz don't trade that contact until your rival civs are capable of contacting them on their own. By brokering techs this way you can slowly begin the process of "bankrupting" them (a nation incapable of providing more than a few gpt for techs.) In my current game I took the Ottomans from tech leader (at beginning of middle age) to bankrupt by the end of the middle ages. Additionally, all the gold you get from them increases your rate of research and your ability to continue brokering.