When to build trading posts

[DaveMcW]

River+Hills (mine early, farm right before civil service, mine late unless i have a lot of riversided hills)

Bonus tip: If you spend 1 turn on a farm before building the mine, you can keep the mine running for a few extra turns while you build the CS farm.

 

[Tabarnak]

Thanks for the tip. But after review i find that a lone mined hill is ok if you have some forests around until you got out all your cities needed. I will farm it after civil service and remine it after chemistry most of the time.

 

[Priah77]

Bonus tip: If you spend 1 turn on a farm before building the mine, you can keep the mine running for a few extra turns while you build the CS farm.

Cool tip, I did not know that. Love exploits ftw.

 

[Priah77]

In culture games, where you are lucky enough to have say 4 widely spaced cities, I usually try to put 1 or 2 TPs along each trade route. Also, in culture games, when your empire really grows and you have many tiles which are well outside of cities, I generally fill all these in with TPs (unless there is a resource). I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it seems to work in my culture games. It allows me to run a gold surplus of at least 50 in non golden age turns by the mid to late game, at Emperor.

lol I dont understand why you would have trading posts along trade routes... that would make too much sense.