trying to move to regent

[Merum]

In addition to what's been said above, I have a few pieces of advice for you...

1. Give up the wonder addiction. In particular, don't ever, and I mean ever, build the Great Library. By the time it's built, it's nearly obsolete, and it ties up what is probably your best production city, which could much better be used to build an army. If somebody else has it and is way ahead of you, beeline for education, and obsolete it.

2. Look for posts on here by zerksees, and read them. He's made some incredible saves of games that looked entirely hopeless. I learned a lot from him.

3. TRADE! Learn to trade tech effectively, and you'll be much better off. Keeping tech from your neighbors doesn't hurt them nearly as much as it slows you down.

 

[ellie]

no i tend to get lazy and automate them because i'm not sure what i should really do with them and where. also, when i build a new city should the first thing i tell it to do is build a worker? then a warrior? is there any specific favorite order that you like to do such as "build capital-build warrior-build settler" etc etc etc thanks

Looking at resources the city needs has helped me

for example when a city reaches size 12 it has no need for excess food so something as simple as giving that food tile to a city that needs to grow and moving the labourer to a production tile can help a fair bit imho.


As for GL, i dunno ..the harder the level the more useful it is imho, and its nice culture if going culture win shrug.

 

[vmxa]

My impression of the GL:

Chief/Warlord/Regent not much good for getting tech
Monarch margin, unless you have a poor start
Emperor can be useful, but not always wise
DG not going to payoff
Deity worth it
Sid can be worth it if the tech pace is being slowed

AW - if it is doable it will be worth it

 

[theskibum]

hehe..you all think your frost is bad, try living in Northwest Montana. This is lake country, plus mountain country plus high elevation. I haven't seen the sun in 4 weeks, we have better than 12 inches of snow in town and in 3 weeks it hasnt been above 15 degrees Farenheit. Also at night the fog rolls in a freezes on everything...the trees are actually quite beautiful like that!

 

[vmxa]

No thanks. prefer 70 degrees as a bad day.

 

[jb1964]

When I quit automating workers my gameplay went way up. And I was able to quit saying "Why the h*ll is that worker doing that!!"

What I hated is that the workers would not automatically connect towns. They would keep improving all 21 tiles even though I had no intention of letting the town grow beyond size 6.

The only thing to watch for in mining green and watering brown is that you might have to water the grass to get the plains tiles irrigated. More than a few times I have gone to irrigate the plains and noticed that I would now have to irrigate a formerly mined grass. Annoying and wasteful.