I got in some good playing over the weekend, but still a lot to learn from the game. I'm just trying to figure out what are people's thoughts about "useless" cities, meaning cities which don't inherrently give you anything for your empire.
So I know in civ 4, if the city had at least one high food tile (pigs, corn, fish), it wouldn't take too long to get it generally productive. It would cost you maintenance early, but even just working fish+2 scientists, the city tended to be a net positive over time.
Then in 5, they really stopped you from playing wide. In that one, unless if the city brought in luxuries, I could never really justify the cost if it was outside of my first 4 cities. All it would do is slow down national wonder production, make techs and policies more expensive, and they hardly ever seemed to be worth it.
Now I'm wondering - how much good or bad are these extra cities? So if I go settle a city that has, say, a couple wheat, a deer, and maybe a sea resource or two, but doesn't actually give you any extra luxuries or resources, will that city be good or bad? Is there value in settling every corner of the globe, or will settling in those locations a bit further from my core actually hurt my empire at all?
So I know in civ 4, if the city had at least one high food tile (pigs, corn, fish), it wouldn't take too long to get it generally productive. It would cost you maintenance early, but even just working fish+2 scientists, the city tended to be a net positive over time.
Then in 5, they really stopped you from playing wide. In that one, unless if the city brought in luxuries, I could never really justify the cost if it was outside of my first 4 cities. All it would do is slow down national wonder production, make techs and policies more expensive, and they hardly ever seemed to be worth it.
Now I'm wondering - how much good or bad are these extra cities? So if I go settle a city that has, say, a couple wheat, a deer, and maybe a sea resource or two, but doesn't actually give you any extra luxuries or resources, will that city be good or bad? Is there value in settling every corner of the globe, or will settling in those locations a bit further from my core actually hurt my empire at all?