When do you make city #2, #3??

[padillah]

When are you finding it possible to create your second city?

What about your third?

I always get lost in the game and end up with the pop-up advisor reminding me to make more settlers. I know I should have create them by then but everything is just so fascinating that I get sidetracked.

Tom P.

[Simplicity]

I create my second city after my first hits 3 population, typically. The third is harder because I typically have to choose between a wonder or a settler next.

[padillah]

Originally posted by Simplicity
I create my second city after my first hits 3 population, typically.

Is there a CIV reason ofr is this a holdover from ICS?

Tom P.

[Simplicity]

I hadn't thought of it that way...

Well, you obviously can't create a settler *before* 3 without it taking forever. Either 3 or 4 works, I think, but I like my second city earlier, personally. Plus, you tend not to have a lot of things to build early on anyways.

You can't keep this up though. The maintenance will kill you if you try ICS.

[Atahualpa]

I also wait until the city reaches 3 pop. I think I got this advice from Sullla's preview. I meanwhile prebuild barracks or something else.

I'm in my second game and I have to say, I should really sprawl out cities a little bit faster. I've got 3 and the AI is about to build it's fourth. All this "don't build em too fast" advice from the previews made me slower than I should be.

[realpolitic]

Don't forget to build a worker before building a settler.

[Simplicity]

Originally posted by realpolitic
Don't forget to build a worker before building a settler.

And also don't forget to build an escort! Stupid fauna.

[ktbutts]

Does anyone know the formula for city maintenance cost?

[Googlie]

In the handful of games I've started, at the Emperor level you certainly need a couple of stout garrison units (warrior and archer - even 2 archers) - to fend off the barbarians. This delays when you can start that settler.

And, as mentioned above, the settler (at that level) always needs an escort to fend off bears/lions/barbarians as well as to garrison the base while it builds its own warrior and archer

Thus the city might be at size 4 or 5 before you can realsitically start on one - and that begs the question - should you build a worker first (and he, too, needs a warrior escort when in the fields/hills, or he is just dinner for the lions and bears)

It'd be interesting to see if the AI civs get harrassed by the barbs et al as much as the human player does

[taowulf]

I have been going a lot slower on the city building. There seem to be so many building choices early and with the way I have been playing, barbarians have been a real issue. I have had to take more than a couple newly built and defended cities from the ravening hordes.

I think from now on, I am going to try to secure the sites I want to build out better before I send out settlers. No more settler with one warrior or archer.

[DeepO]

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