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A game "flaw" I have noticed is that if you put a settler on a ship and tell it to build a road on an ocean square it WILL! I don't know if it works with irrigations but I think it's worth a try

Does difficulty level effect palace upgrade speed?

[Doc Adrian]

Originally posted by Crazy Lady@Mar 15 2006, 01:42 PM
Does difficulty level effect palace upgrade speed?

Yes it does...

the easier the level the more points needed to get a Palace improvement...because easier level means easier to score points

to have the 37 Palace tiles developed

Your score must 1055 on Emperor Level, and 2461 on Chieftan level to give you examples.

Thanks Doc Adrian.

I was wondering how to get that many points in emperer difficulty (that's my prefered level btw) I usually play as the romans and my latest game my civilization spread from spain to Japan with about 60-70 or maybe 80 cities tightly packed everywhere inbetween (exept india and cambonia) I usually start the game and sell the palace (Im crazy) then buy two militia and kill the greeks and french, from there I only build settlers despite thr risk and I keep building settlers in all of my cities until I feel safe with the size of my empire (as in all of the northern hemisphere) then I built phalanx in all my cities and I attained masenry from a villager hut. I rebuild the palace in Roma and turned taxes down and luxuries up (it was about 1500 bc) And I get a great deal in taxes and I got about five palace upgrades right away. then I started developing one technology every turn (almost) I build up every city to the best of my abilities. I built the all of the wonders in their respective cities (exept the great library and collosus which I built in Roma) It is about 240-340 ad and I have just developed industrialization. Despite all of this I only have 500 points and my palace is only half finished, I have tried every thing already mentioned here like lux rates, densly populated cities, and everything I could think of. I never start wars and they seldom last more than a few turns. I think I need some help...

P.s. sorry for my bad english

[Rogue]

Now, this is something I did not try in this game.

How in the world do you menage 70-80 cities? How long it takes you to make sure everything works and what's happines? Do you build all wonders or at the beggining some other civilization got some wonders?

Originally posted by Anubis@Mar 16 2006, 12:54 PM
Now, this is something I did not try in this game.

How in the world do you menage 70-80 cities? How long it takes you to make sure everything works and what's happines? Do you build all wonders or at the beggining some other civilization got some wonders?

All of my numbers were estimates, I just counted 71 cities and I have no intention of stopping. I first started playing the game when I was 4-8 years old and I never was very good, My father was the master at it I MEAN HE WAS INCREDIBLE he always had a huge empire that spanned the globe with as many as 90-100 cities . I on the other hand always had 5-10 cities I always wanted to focus on my cities and build them up, so I always lost . Then my dad gave me one peice of advice to help me play and that is THE NAME OF THE GAME IS EARLY EXPANTION. I took this to heart and my strategy is now to sell my palace (I can get masonry from a hut and rebuild it later) and buy two militia, from there I search and destroy any near by nations. Meanwhile my capital is producing settlers (and it will keep doing so until it can't support any more) I tell these new settlers to build cities which in turn build more settlers who build more cities add infinium. I leave ALL of my cities undefended (which is another great risk) After I explore villager huts and get technology and money I rebuild my palace in Roma. At this point I tell my non frontier cities to build Militia or phalanx if advailable, Imeadiataly after that I build a temple (it is VERY important to build the Oracle to keep your plump empire from rotting on the vine) My frontier cities continue to build settlers then when they are no longer boarder cities build phalanx (I know it is a terrible risk but look at my name) Don't bother with roads or irrigations yet that comes later just continue doing what you've been doing. Your cities that are building settlers will remain small so don't worry about them going into civil unrest but if they do build a temple (or another settler...) After your empire has reached it'd desired size tell ALL of your undefended cities to build Phalanx then temples then one last settler Each (if they can support it) after the settlers are built place what ever you like in your city, the settlers will build roads and irrigations to connect your bloated empire and start to consolidate your gains.

Note 1 you will be slightly behind technologically but once your cities start to grow you will catch up VERY quickly

Note 2 Develope republic or monarchy as soon as possible their increase in trade and food production will give you more taxes and higher populations. (but be careful you know what happens when they grow too fast)

Note 3 You WILL encounter other civs and If your city is undefended they will attack it without even saying "hello" Just to let you know you will prolly lose a few cities that way it is best to establish peace before expanding in that direction again (even if they are backstabbing two-faced liars)

Note 4 It Is crazy to sell your palace as no taxes are collected no research performed and corruption is rampent... If you don't want to take the risk play on Chief level and buy 1 militia with your starting money and forget about selling the palace at all

Note 5 Save your game before exploring a villager hut If it is barbarians Load it and try again :sometimes: it changes Also note the villagers don't give you a tech you're developing so if you intend to sell your palace DON'T RESEARCH MASONARY!!

Note 6 Save your game every turn or so if an opponent civilization builds a wonder you want or NEED load it (they sometimes don't build it if you load I think it is a trigger or something but not sure)

Again Im really bad at english so don't mind any grammar errors

[Master MC]

Your English is not terrible at all.
I'm never too much in favor of expanding terribly; I always build 4-5 cities and upgrade them (including terrain), so I get huge, wealthy and intelligent cities. Usually, I'm the big man together with another civ (mostly the Zulus ).
One problem I encounter when expanding terribly is the building site. Do the working zones not interfere? Am I not building on arctic areas or the desert? Really difficult and annoying at the same time.

[Tulac]

That's called smallpox strategy, and it's useful, because you're cities never grow too much, and you don't need many improvements, so no, city zone don't interfere in a damaging way...

This is however imposible in civ3 and 4...

Originally posted by Tulac@Mar 16 2006, 10:36 PM
That's called smallpox strategy, and it's useful, because you're cities never grow too much, and you don't need many improvements, so no, city zone don't interfere in a damaging way...

This is however imposible in civ3 and 4...

I never build cities right next to or even one space away from another one without reason. I usually give atleast 2 spaces per city (unless I am building cities in their proper place such as Athens and Byzantium... that is the only exception)

I am currently engaged in TOTAL WAR with my least favorite civ the Zulu.
Ever since I was little I hated them they are agressive and warlike not to mention they can't be trusted. They used to destroy many of my cities when I was younger, it got so bad that I would restart If I found out they were an enemy civ. When I was a little girl I used to have so much fun building an empire and a meeting with the zulu ment the game was over the zulu have come to take my fun away

They have broken through my first line of defence and are currently headed for my north african cities (why do they hate me so much?) I always push them back but I can't seem to capture all of their tiny settlements which get destroyed (it seems they always have a few back up settlers hiding and they rebuild after the war) they then beg for peace and the senate overules my rejection (can ANYBODY be THAT Stupid) They then rebuild 3-5 cities and then contact me and call ME the leader of the most UNTRUSTWORTHY INFADELS and demand monarchy or somthing which I refuse and they declare war again

P.S. Is the regestration to this forum free?

[blastradius14]

Yeah, registering is free.


The russians are my problem most of the time, so I kill them as quickly as I can. No one else ever tries to play with me in the space race