Some Newbie Questions..

[Larsenex]

First off I am doing Ok in a game using the Mod SlowerTechandBalance. I have Four great persons, Two Engineers, a scientist and a merchant. I am hording the Enineers to hurry late game wonders, is that a smart move?

I was going to send the GP Merchant to the other side of my map and have him do his super sell off. Is the gold pay off worth it?

Is it worth it to do a golden age? I have not done one and was thinking about waiting till a little later in the game...


I took my an outlying city and went to the bottom of the build section and low and behold there is 'Culture, Science and Gold. When I turn on the Science thingy my time to complete stuff is cut down!

I was going to turn on culture on this outlying town since the Victoria decided to build right at my boundries. Will this move increase my boarders?

Thanks for letting me ramble..=)

 

[Shillen]

Saving great engineers for late in the game if you get them early in the game is generally not a good use. You could be reaping the rewards from that engineer for hundreds of years, but instead he's sitting in your city. Most of the earlier wonders are better than the later ones. The only time I would say it's a good idea is if you're trying to get a fast space ship or diplo victory. It might be worth saving them to rush the UN or the Space Elevator. But other than that go ahead and rush a current wonder or some wonder you'll get very soon.

Doing a trade mission with your great merchant is a great use. Use the scientist to create an academy in your best science city if it doesn't have one already.

Golden Ages in general aren't worth it except in rare cases.

Building culture, science and wealth is not an effective way of gaining those three things. Almost always you're better off building something else. But there are definitely certain cases where building them is good. Your example of a border city that is losing workable tiles is a good one. You're better off building theatres, temples, etc. first. But if it has all the culture buildings already built then building culture for that extra push would be useful.

 

[rabottens]

I love what a great artist can do with a work of art along a neighbors borders.

I also save my great engineers for the more expensive and coveted wonders.

Unless I have founded a religion I used my great prophets as specialists cha ching!

Great scientists I have build the academy in my scientific cities. After each scientific city has an academy I have them join my ranks as specialists.

Being money hungry as I am I love sending my great merchants out to the far corners of the world and trade far away from home for great $$$$$