Anarchy

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Prince
I just called it nonsense

Anyway, it usually lasts 4-10 turns in my games, and it bites. When I finally got my democracy running, I was running valuable turns behind in the tech. race, had my Universal Suffrage wonder change to a Coastal Fortress (what had gotten into my governor??) because France beat me to it by 1 turn, and besides that it took me just 1 hour to get all my cities content and back again. And then I'm forgetting starvation.

Well, but then, it was rather bad planning. Never switch governments if you are building an important great wonder. That was one of my first lessons learned with Civ3... Also, the turn you allow anarchy to break up, go through all your cities and switch off as many worked tiles that produce mostly shields/commerce as you can. Shields and commerce is lost to the anarchy anyway, so all you care about is food. And as for food, produce only enough to keep the cities from starving, no need for any actual growth during anarchy... it just makes things more complicated...