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This is something I just noted to Togas based off of what I've noticed from playing game #2. Call me dumb, but I never really overly concerned myself with this before being subjected to the anal level of strategizing induced by playing a multiplayer game in pbem:
Thoughts?
825 B.C.
I think I've discovered a key city expansion strategy that I'm only now noticing the clear supierority of because this is a pbem game and I'm anally watching this stuff rather than ignoring it like normal because I normally don't like to bother myself with that much micromanagement... I typically just play.
Build your first cities in an array around your capital at 4-6 tiles distant each. In this game, I have 4-5 cites thus arrayed around my capital (though one is nearly an all-jungle city and not useful). This minimizes corruption and gives you a really great production base for propelling the rest of both REX and defense. Any cities beyond that core just build city walls and temples. You let the core cities build all of the military units, settlers, workers, etc.
In the inter-team game, especially because we're still under despotism, our next thing to do after getting iron is to found an array of cities around Madrid for the simple reason that corruption/waste will be lower in those cities and they're easier to connect to the capital by road. We need a core group of cities to be a production base.
I think I've discovered a key city expansion strategy that I'm only now noticing the clear supierority of because this is a pbem game and I'm anally watching this stuff rather than ignoring it like normal because I normally don't like to bother myself with that much micromanagement... I typically just play.
Build your first cities in an array around your capital at 4-6 tiles distant each. In this game, I have 4-5 cites thus arrayed around my capital (though one is nearly an all-jungle city and not useful). This minimizes corruption and gives you a really great production base for propelling the rest of both REX and defense. Any cities beyond that core just build city walls and temples. You let the core cities build all of the military units, settlers, workers, etc.
In the inter-team game, especially because we're still under despotism, our next thing to do after getting iron is to found an array of cities around Madrid for the simple reason that corruption/waste will be lower in those cities and they're easier to connect to the capital by road. We need a core group of cities to be a production base.
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