Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Conquering
This time in playing CIV I learned the positives and negatives of conquering land. I started out the game with a small number of cities and expanding with a settler every so often. The advantage of doing this is your are able to easily control and defend all your land. It isn't too time consuming to control what each worker does, and it's easy to examine each city. The disadvantages to this is that you limit population growth, gold potential, and your resources. Then later in the game I started conquering by force, and my number of cities increased drastically. The big disadvantage is that you have to turn each worker to automatic, which doesn't allow you to monitor what they are doing and you can't really keep track of all your cities. The other thing is it is much harder to defend all your territory because you have to spread your military out. Also if you want to move troops from one side of the country to the other, it takes a very long time. There are a lot more benefits though. First, you open yourself to a lot more resources with the more land and different types of land that you have. Another advantage is that you have many more cities to build at once. This allows you to build helpful buildings, military, and even leave room to let you build things like the pyramids and Hollywood. Also with so many cities you can build a lot more military units in a small amount of time, so in case you find yourself in an emergency situation you can revamp your military quickly. Overall I think there are great advantages to conquering lots of land, but staying small is not the worst thing you can do.
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I agree with your reasoning. In my opinion, the best thing for you to do is to keep exanding your empire. Gaining more land and increasing your amount of settlements will increase your producion of units and and buildings, and it will also increase your chances of finding natural resources that you will need for advancement.
In terms of how hard it is to defend all the land you've acquired. The best thing for you to do might be to just station a few troops in each of your cities. This way, not only will your cities be happy with military protection, but it'll give your troops a defense bonus in case your cities ever get attacked.
Kreh, you are right with what you have stated. if you are to expand your empire, it is necessary that you build roads (or train tracks if you are that far along in time) as it allows for much faster transportations of goods, services, and protection. I also liked how you spoke about putting workers on automatic. i havent quite figured out whether it is a good idea or not. for one, you dont have to take so long on each turn, but the computer may be making those workers do unnecessary things.
Kreh I think that you what you have said contains a lot of helpful information. I think that in the beginning it is much better to stay small and expand at a slow rate until you have produced enough military that will be able to protect your expanded territory. Expansion does greatly increase your production of resources and other goods. Like Chad said, roads and possibly railroad tracks will greatly improve your units' ability to move quickly throughout your empire. Expansion is a major part of this game and I think that it is needed for a successful empire.
Kreh, keep your military as strong as you can in your cities. after roads and means of transportation are built, it is easier to transport the right things to and from to help your cities grow. it may be a tough choice puting the auto-pilot on your workers, but in the end, more stuff can be accomplished while you gain more territories. maybe something is sent in the wrong direction for the time, but it could be a blessing in disguise.
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