building queues

[André Alfenaar]

Hi!

One of the more difficult aspects of the game is to find the best BUILDING queue depending on the profile of your civilization.

This is what I thought up:
temple-library-marketplace-aquaduct-cathedral-....

The timing of building an aquaduct is important. Usually you would want to build a marketplace first to ensure sufficient happiness for your people.

Playing a scientific civ doesn't change the queue. Playing a religious one does:
temple-library-cathedral(!)-aqueduct-marketplace-....
The cathedral ensures sufficient happiness, so now one can postpone the building of the marketplace.

The timing of building a courthouse is important, too. In general I build a courthouse (after builing a temple) when 50% or more of a city's shields are corrupted.

What do you think? Are these good building queues?

[AIL]

Current game I used something like Temple, Leginonairy, Legionairy, Legionairy,...

However, there are to many factors that make differences between cities so that I usually do not make a queue but select a new project when the prior is finished...

[André Alfenaar]

You are right. I don't use automatic building queues, as there are so many circumstances that may cause you to decide something else.

I use this more as a kind of a general guideline. (And it seems to work as I am winning at emperor level rather easily playing either the Babylonians, Americans or French!)

[Jethro83]

Circumstances may change in an unpredictable way. Therefore I don't use build queues.

I know that I'll be trying to build up a few good cities in peace for the first part of the game, so as to establish a firm foundation for my conquests. So therefore, in each city, I'll build a temple, barracks and possibly a courthouse. That way, when my diplomatic circumstances change (ie. I have to go to war), I'll be ready to crank out veteran military units and just wipe out everything in my path. You can catch up technologically by doing this and demanding all techs from your enemy in exchange for peace.

But anyway, since I'm drifting, I'll get back to the point at hand. Since peace may turn to war in the blink of an eye, its no use using the build queues, once you have your basic setup (temple and barracks)

[Zachriel]

I definitely use build queues. However, they are always subject to change along with changing circumstances. Later in the game, with an expanding empire, they are quite useful.

[V.O.C.'02]

i only use the queue for my worker making cities ( size 6 strategy, which really works for me). this way I am not suddenly making an improvement or something

[Nym]

Originally posted by André Alfenaar
You are right. I don't use automatic building queues, as there are so many circumstances that may cause you to decide something else.

I use this more as a kind of a general guideline. (And it seems to work as I am winning at emperor level rather easily playing either the Babylonians, Americans or French!)

Absolutely agree. It not only depends on the city (where it is built for example) but also on external factors, that is to say other civs and barbs. So I only use a guideline: spearman - settler - temple - worker - library...

[Bella Hella]

i usually only use build queues when i have one town pumping out a whole @$$load of military units.

modern armor
modern armor
modern armor
modern armor
modern armor
modern armor

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Bella Hella
i usually only use build queues when i have one town pumping out a whole @$$load of military units.

modern armor
modern armor
modern armor
modern armor
modern armor
modern armor

why not just turn on the "always start construction of same unit" flag... works for me.

[jshelr]

I'm seriously worried about the survibability of any civ whose leader does not start the building que with barracks.

[Bella Hella]

Originally posted by UberKruX
why not just turn on the "always start construction of same unit" flag... works for me.

(dumb question coming up) is that in the governor? i never use those...

[Sinapus]

...but if you are at the point where you can build modern armor, shouldn't you have had barracks already?

[Cookie Monster]

So far in my experience I have not used saved build queues. The dynamics of each game change so rapidly that I find a saved queue just slows down your growth.

Wars tend to start overnight, just as in real life , and the hunt for resources in the early game is fierce. Too many things can change in the game situation to cause you to rethink strategies that for me anyway long queues don't make sense.

Or it could be that I'm a control freak and love to micromanage!

[Bella Hella]

Originally posted by Sinapus
...but if you are at the point where you can build modern armor, shouldn't you have had barracks already?

no, i pump out hundreds of "regular" modern armor units.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by Bella Hella


(dumb question coming up) is that in the governor? i never use those...

no it's an option in the Prefrence tab... it just makes it so if u finish a warrior it starts building another one without asking and whatnot. when you go to moce the warrior you can change the production if you want, a real timesaver for me anyway