Re: Civ 4 : Early game strategy

In alt.games.civ3 on Mon, 26 Nov 2007,  wrote :
>"Öjevind Lång" <bredband.net@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> <kaj.stenberg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i meddelandet
>> news:fid6gh$660$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> [snip]
>
>>> The blue rings  (=recommended spots) too often do not coincide
>>> with what I want/plan to do. But I always check why. Obviosly, it
depends.
>>> But up to maybe 25 cities I tend do micromanage cities. And I newer
>>> trust the advisors...
>
>> You found as many as 25 cities? What map size do you play on? Or do you
go
>> for dominance and aggressive war later on?
>
>
>Early, yes. I mentioned that I am a builder, I have every victory mode
>turned off. I cannot check (windows only on a computer in a room where my
>wife sleeps right now), but I wouldn't be surprised to see 200 (two
hundred)
>cities by the year 1900, map large or huge.
>       In my best games I have not had a single war before roughly
>1400 AD. And by then a war is a side affair, no reason to involve more
>than the basic border cities. Even if in a face of a major war, my
>production capasity surpases anything anyone can muster.
>
>(In Civ 3 corruption for building many cities was almost prohibiting. I
tried
>to cope, mostly in vain. My technique seem to work in Civ 4 though )
>
In Civ4, I find the financial penalties for expanding too fast a PITA, 
plus micro-managing a lot of cities is a nightmare.
-- 
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett