sixty4half
Prince
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- Apr 12, 2015
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I'm having an issue where my production seems to come to a slow drag during my middle game and I'm trying to figure out where I'm going wrong. My first suspicion is my National Wonders. I try to build the vast majority of them and I think I may be getting too aggressive about things like Grand Temple, East India, Heroic Epic ect.
Obviously, National College, Oxford, and National Epic are pretty much needed. Which other National Wonders do you guys always or nearly always get? Which ones are largely avoided?
Here's my scenario; I normally get NC and CM somewhere around 3rd or 4th city, If I'm being a warmonger I'll have Heroic Epic by this time (if I don't get it at this time, I normally don't ever). Those are easy to grab without too much disruption to my growth/production. Normally around my 5th city is when I get the techs to build the Ironworks, EIC, GT. The problem is that normally my 4th city, let alone my 5th, and sometimes my 3rd city don't even have the required base buildings. And at this point I'm normally only a short stint away from unlocking Oxford.
At that point I'm franticaly building Library/Uni in the 5th city (which can take up to 40-50 turns for both combined). The Shrine/Temple for GT take slightly less time, but still need to get built somewhere in that time.
For Ironworks, I'll usually have workshops already. If I've built my 4th or 5th at the time I want Ironworks I'll just buy workshop in the last expo. I figure it helps get the rest of the base buildings built so it should be one of the first buildings I get.
But getting all of the base buildings up takes soooooooooooo long in the last city I built that it delays some of the National wonders till i'm getting ready to move from mid game to the end game.
Hermitage?!? LOL. I've only been able to get this one when focusing on a CV.
Am I spending too much time on these buildings? To many hammers in my expos going to base buildings?
Do I need so much infrastructure in my 3rd-5th city? I mean, I'm literally building Library/Shrine/Uni/Temple/Workshop/Colluseum/Market and to a lesser extent Monument-Opera House/Barracks in my last expos. Is that to much?
Obviously, National College, Oxford, and National Epic are pretty much needed. Which other National Wonders do you guys always or nearly always get? Which ones are largely avoided?
Here's my scenario; I normally get NC and CM somewhere around 3rd or 4th city, If I'm being a warmonger I'll have Heroic Epic by this time (if I don't get it at this time, I normally don't ever). Those are easy to grab without too much disruption to my growth/production. Normally around my 5th city is when I get the techs to build the Ironworks, EIC, GT. The problem is that normally my 4th city, let alone my 5th, and sometimes my 3rd city don't even have the required base buildings. And at this point I'm normally only a short stint away from unlocking Oxford.
At that point I'm franticaly building Library/Uni in the 5th city (which can take up to 40-50 turns for both combined). The Shrine/Temple for GT take slightly less time, but still need to get built somewhere in that time.
For Ironworks, I'll usually have workshops already. If I've built my 4th or 5th at the time I want Ironworks I'll just buy workshop in the last expo. I figure it helps get the rest of the base buildings built so it should be one of the first buildings I get.
But getting all of the base buildings up takes soooooooooooo long in the last city I built that it delays some of the National wonders till i'm getting ready to move from mid game to the end game.
Hermitage?!? LOL. I've only been able to get this one when focusing on a CV.
Am I spending too much time on these buildings? To many hammers in my expos going to base buildings?
Do I need so much infrastructure in my 3rd-5th city? I mean, I'm literally building Library/Shrine/Uni/Temple/Workshop/Colluseum/Market and to a lesser extent Monument-Opera House/Barracks in my last expos. Is that to much?