Emperor Games: how to improve your skills

[Mountain Sage]

Economics and happiness

[Mountain Sage]

And finally, the power graph

[Puma]

Hey TT, I love the graphics style on your screenshots, what system do you have: Apple, Linux??
Sometimes my screen starts to get on my nerves because it seems so bright, like there is a perpetual heatwave in the game.
By the way nice thread guys, but (personally) I think you should indicate here and there why you take certain decisions, especially concerning diplomacies.
I found, after moving from monarch to emperor, that I would reserve the end of each turn to diplomacies, unless I was on the process of starting a war or ending one - nothing like getting one last city before suing for peace at the end of your turn (but maybe that's too obvious for you guys).
I found that writing a dated log of ROP and MPP popups (between the Civs), as well as reasons why I took certain decisions would help me when returning to games after a few days of not playing.
On the gold issue, in my last game I kept a constant large reserve of gold after securing the Great Library. I would rather sell the AIs techs and slowly drain them of money - instead of allowing them to store it - so as to limit *any* trading among them - I just have this feeling that any form of trading would help their attitudes towards each other and I didnt want them all coming down on me lol. Also knowing the AIs' tech research preferences under certain situations is a definite must in emperor and something that was never an issue for me in monarch. For example, being relatively new to emperor (and Civ3 in general) I found that civs tend to go for Map Making before Literature - which makes the Great Library that much more easy to build.
In the end, I got a few new points from your discussions - so -thanks.

[Mountain Sage]

*bumped* for thriller, j_wedd and any other interested player.