Re: Civ 4 : Early game strategy

In alt.games.civ3 on Mon, 26 Nov 2007,  wrote :
>Paul Hyett <pah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>(This my be mine):
>>>(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.
>
>Of course one shouldn't expand _too_ fast. But that depends on terrain
>and opposition. Early on I try to expand "as much as possible". However,
>up to the maybe 25 cities there is no problem with micromanagement
>(workers, after seeing to a town, can be let free)

I stack lots of workers together so they can make improvements really 
quickly.

>, since in my games I
>get practically everything, only in the border cities does the order of
>getting things matter, and even then on occasion.

BTW, what game speed do people here prefer?

As a builder, I usually go for the longest option.
-- 
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett