The more the merrier? (AoD2)

[ironic_lettuce]

Hi everyone,

I've been playing the AoD2 mod, and with regards to city numbers, is it best to have a higher number of them? I had 4 or 5 cities in my game (on easiest level), then discovered that the AI had at least 8! Is that what I should be doing? The only reason I don't do that is because if I can't see any benefit from building a city in terms of making money through making consumables then I tend not to bother. Am I going about it all the wrong way? I just feel like I'd be building cities just for the sake of building them!

Any tips on this would be great!
Thanks!

 

[dalgo]

It is just a matter of personal preference, you can win the game with only 2 or 3 colonies or you can build 20+. I usually play a long game on a very large map and end up with 10 to 12 colonies at independence.

 

[Wheldrake]

In AoD2 v1.10, the AI build loads of cities, produces loads of bells, and will hog all the cool FFs unless you also build a large population in at least a moderately large number of cities and both produce bells *and* spend a significant part of your production building political points. What's more, it has become very hard to wipe them out - the other prefered method of keeping the competing colonial civs from hogging the FFs.

Maybe I'm just greedy, but I want the lion's share of FFs for *myself*!!! So it's a real race, with the AI representing a really tough competitor to top.

Cheers, --- Wheldrake