buildings

[anteos]

What buildings do people always build and never build, and what are the reason for doing so?

Thanks

[Argos65987]

I believe the answers will differ, depending on who you ask, but granaries are a pretty sure bet as they help city population grow faster.

Many people will have cities which specialize in certain production and tailor the building improvements to that end. A city designed to pump out settlers/workers will likely get a granary built early. A city with good shield production that you might want devoted to military unit production will get a barracks and production type upgrades.

I like having the economy boosting improvements in my large core cities. Having lots of gold helps get all kinds of things done

[vmxa1]

Temples, because you need all the happy and culture you can get.
Never coal plants and manufacture plants. Because I hate to deal with the pollution of coal and I don't need the latter.

Add in coastal forts.

[Inverse Icarus]

i never build colleseums. i've never had to. and i play emperor.

[Rhothaerill]

I almost always build granaries in a few cities (and usually only a few cities) to get settler and worker pumps set up. I also try to build marketplaces in every city if possible (unless it is a camp city designed to only build units) because of the happiness bonus for three or more luxuries and the gold bonus.

Like vmxa1 I've never built a coal plant, and I've never needed a manufacturing plant.

[:) Smiley]

I've never had a game go long enough for me to actually build a manufacturing plant, or even have the ability to build one. I'd assume it's only use is in conquest-only games.