Things you thought when you were a noob

[Darth Fred]

Well slavery sucks. What kind of madman would sacrifice city population for some hammers/

Me.
F

 

[insaneweasel]

I'm still a noob, and this is what I think/do

-I don't like slavery because I can't use it effectively, but at least I don't whip on the first turn of production anymore.
-I don't use nationalism.
-I will try to get every tech, and then the comp. gives me the dreaded "you're becoming too advanced"

But at least I can beat noble fairly easily.

 

[Ravellion]

In Civ I and II I really did not want my cities to have one city have an overlapping city radius with another. In Civ III I finally learned

 

[Ataxerxes]

When I was a noob, I wouldn't give in to any requests for gifts. "You're my competitor, why should I help you"

I went nuts trying to found every religion I could and build every wonder.

I put off researching Steel because I could build wonders with other Techs

Hated Slavery, thought Serfdom was great.

Used Great Prophets to build shrines for religions that were only in two cities.

Went hard for Space Elevator.

I had a few things to learn, obviously.

 

[lymond]

I'm sure something like this has been mentioned, but I would change to a new civic every time I reached the tech and was prompted by the game to switch. I just thought that a new civic meant a better civic.

I also thought the granary was a useless building and cottages were a useless tile improvement.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

I thought of so many noobish things that the list would be to long.

 

[CHEESE!]

Two? That's not that many.

 

[beest]

I didn't know you could give units promotions until my second game. I did also wonder throughout the first game what those numbers behind a units name stood for..duh

I also initially thought cottages were useless..

 

[civnoob13]

Two? That's not that many.

beat me to it

 

[Jerrymander]

Oh yeah, I also thought that city tiles extended three spaces instead of two, so I built all of my cities six tiles apart.

lolol

 

[civnoob13]

I used to give myself a bonus by giving myself 5 cities to begin with and putting them right next to each other. I wondered why my cities never grew, has close to no production, and why I went bankrupt.

 

[lafittejean]

I used to think Nationalism was worthless. Then I found out where the screen for looking at a city was. Then I found the draft buton. Then I found out the easiest way to get a somewhat free army of advanced units is to draft a few when you have the right tech from a large city. It also saved me the 100s of times I didn't bother too much with an army.

 

[Tarkhan]

I used to think Nationalism was worthless. Then I found out where the screen for looking at a city was. Then I found the draft buton. Then I found out the easiest way to get a somewhat free army of advanced units is to draft a few when you have the right tech from a large city. It also saved me the 100s of times I didn't bother too much with an army.

Gotta love summoning an army from thin air.

 

[CajNatalie]

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Nevermind, I didn't see page 9. XD

 

[civnoob13]

Just how many of these future techs can there be? I wonder what the award is at the end...

 

[Forty-Two]

I used to keep researching future tech after I completed the tech tree, even though all of my cities were well below their happiness and health cap.

 

[Fezzik]

Always chose a Civ that started with Mysticism so I could found Buddhism or Hinduism.

Try to found as many religions as possible.

I didn't know how - I couldn't find the "hurry production" button. I had to Google it to find out where it was.

I felt like I had to try to build EVERY wonder

Used Great Prophets to build shrines for religions that were only in two cities.

All of the above.

And I didn't understand that you needed to build a road to use a resource. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't build Axemen when I had Bronze Working. After I figured that out, I thought having more than one of each resource was really helpful.

I used to think that if you founded a city on ivory the elephants would trample your citizens

Now that's just awesome

 

[j_mie6]

thanks

 

[obsolete]

I don't know if this has been mentioned... but I used to think the AI stopped being stupid as you increased the difficulty settings.

 

[Link]

I don't know if this has been mentioned... but I used to think the AI stopped being stupid as you increased the difficulty settings.

Bc designing an AI that actually "plays the game" is completely impossible.