My BO is usually happiness/monument (for fourth and later cities), granary, workers until i have 1.5xnumber of cities, food trade route. Is it worth delaying national college for preparing against backstabbing and is mercenary army worth spending a social policy? I realized the gold cost is dirt cheap.
I'm on Deity, my second city has strong production but no desert tiles other than the deset tile i settled my city. After i gave it much thought, petra also gives +6 culture after researching archeology, meaning it gives +1 more culture than parthenon and also giving +1 trade route.
+1 happiness per city good or nah? Assuming most cities only has 1 marble/stone
By the time i plop my 3rd city my happiness is negative lol. I'm still building HG even though im on happiness deficit😂
Amphitheater, opera house, etc. I've never build it because it only provide a trivial +1 culture but they are the only building for increasing culture on expansion cities if all the guilds is in my capital lol. I never turn any great person into great works on non cultural game.
Inca on highlands with ridge and dense mountain. (maximum terrace farm potential, beware of barbarian tho)
Germany on Marathon speed with raging barbarian. (You get units faster than your population growth i always reach unit supply cap early game)
Poland on great plains. (Reroll until you get 3+ pasture start i guarantee you the map will have abundance of pastures)
Anything else?
I don't even know where is the location of Ahmad al-Mansur lol.
Do you work specialist in every city or only in capital? The GPP generation is seperated and the yield is weak.
Is feed the world and religious center worth considering over religious building? Now that i think about it, they're essentialy second granary/colosseum in every city and religious building is goddamn expensive unless your faith is strong.
On the civilization wiki, the AI 'world train rate' on deity is the same as on prince but why the heck i can't nab the usual wonder? I always steal workers early to improve all the production tiles while building wonder but i still cant catch up. I'm starting on Classical era to eliminate the tech advantage but it doesnt help me from consistently getting the wonders except Oracle lol.
When playing as Germany especially on Marathon, i can get units from barbarian faster than my population growth. There's a -10% production penalty from having too much unit, is it worth keeping? i assume yes because -10% production modifier is miniscule early and unit take forever to build but what do you think? I usually use the unit to farm XP from nearby CS so most of the time they arent idling.
If i'm capturing a city with petra/colossus do i still get the extra trade route slot? and the free social policy from oracle.
People always argue whether it's better to settle near mountain, hill, etc but i like settling on tundra/desert tile. I feel like im not wasting the 2f 1h tile even if im missing some resource on the 3rd ring.
Courthouse is expensive and took so damn long to build. The 5 gpt maintenance cost can also make me go bankrupt in early war. What factor do you think is it worth building courthouse?
When i steal a civ's worker, either that civilization or the nearby civilization will DoF me, isn't declaring war supposed to give diplomatic penalty? I tried doing it on deity to make sure it's not just a prince thing but i got the same outcome. The civ that i stole their worker doesn't hate me either, only rarely they will march to my city if it's close. Has anyone ever experience this? I could see this as a strategy for playing Sweden lol.
Is going honor instead of tradition viable as Germany? i've been playing Germany on Marathon/raging barbarian and i realized i have so many unit that military caste become usable. And is professional army worth considering?
I used to think Inca is a tall civ but the terrace farm is highly situational, most likely you wont find that many mountain tiles lol. The half cost/free road could save a lot of money and your unit ignore terrain cost on hills, meaning your worker and settler move like scout as long as there's hills.
Everytime i try it all my unit ends up dying, the only time ive ever succesfully done it is with Zulu and Songhai (until their UU become obsolete lol). The problem is when a city is covered with forest and hills, ranged and siege unit become useless. Naval warfare is easier because you can hit and run but most likely a city only have so few coast tiles for ship to enter.