duxup
Prince
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- Dec 31, 2001
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I keep running into the same conundrum when it comes to social policies when I play and I was wondering what other folks would do.
I tend to play with raging barbarians on for some early game action. Also I find raging barbarians combined with Honor's culture bonus for killing barbarians can be entertaining / helpful. When you've got barbarian camps putting out units pretty fast you can hang outside those camps and milk them for culture, sometimes it pays off big early in the game. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has thought of that.
Anyway after opening Honor I don't find the rest of the Honor policies of much use early on so I tend to go to Liberty and take Collective Rule and Citizenship.
After that I'm a bit lost on what to take. Representation to cut down on culture costs seems handy (usually what I choose) but with being just the 4th culture choice that Golden Age seems like it is sort of going to waste. Republic, again I'm not very big at this point so the production bonus isn't that big for me, same goes for Meritocracy. I'll take them eventually but none seems all that important.
I guess what sums it up is that to me a lot of the early choices have some instant payoff that accelerate my early game progress. They seem like easy / good choices. After the first three I'm at a loss as to where to go next. Perhaps I'm missing something.
For the record I usually play on King (dabbling in Emperor and Immortal now and then). I am pretty fond of warmongering I tend to found 4 - 5 cities, after that polish everything up for a series of wars (if I'm not already involved in one) and go from there.
Thanks everyone.
I tend to play with raging barbarians on for some early game action. Also I find raging barbarians combined with Honor's culture bonus for killing barbarians can be entertaining / helpful. When you've got barbarian camps putting out units pretty fast you can hang outside those camps and milk them for culture, sometimes it pays off big early in the game. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has thought of that.
Anyway after opening Honor I don't find the rest of the Honor policies of much use early on so I tend to go to Liberty and take Collective Rule and Citizenship.
After that I'm a bit lost on what to take. Representation to cut down on culture costs seems handy (usually what I choose) but with being just the 4th culture choice that Golden Age seems like it is sort of going to waste. Republic, again I'm not very big at this point so the production bonus isn't that big for me, same goes for Meritocracy. I'll take them eventually but none seems all that important.
I guess what sums it up is that to me a lot of the early choices have some instant payoff that accelerate my early game progress. They seem like easy / good choices. After the first three I'm at a loss as to where to go next. Perhaps I'm missing something.
For the record I usually play on King (dabbling in Emperor and Immortal now and then). I am pretty fond of warmongering I tend to found 4 - 5 cities, after that polish everything up for a series of wars (if I'm not already involved in one) and go from there.
Thanks everyone.