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I'm enjoying it... but there's just... something. I'm not a civ pro or anything... but is anyone else coming to some of these same conclusions?:
1) Cities states are pretty worthles, unless you exploit them via Siam.
- They don't really go on offense... ever. I've seen them declare war countless times, just to sit there and do nothing.
- They get steamrolled so easily. Forget diplomatic victory... 80% of them are dead by late game.
2) The AI can't use the oceans worth a damn.
- Out of the 4-complete games I've done, I've not once seen the AI use its navy in any effective capacity... or even try to. I've seen whole conitents go to war, but not send any ships to attack.
3) Military victory is 10 times easier than any other victory. In fact, if you are going to try for any other victory, you may as well just stop, and change to a military one. Because:
- You need vast resources (ie cities) to complete any of the victories.
- To get vast resources, you need a big army to conquer dudes.
- If you've wiped out an AI's army, they won't be recovering any time soon, so you may as well just conquer the whole empire... and so on, until you wipe everyone out.
Am I doing it wrong?
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Gold is spent on:
- You need gold for your military.
- You need gold to upgrade your military.
- You need gold to maintain city-state alliances.
- You need gold for build improvement maintenance.
- You need gold for roads maintenance.
How do you get gold?
- Trading post tile improvements.
- Banks and Markets building improvements.
- And linking cities. (which costs gold in road maintenance).
Those two lists are pretty imbalanced. Also, if you're making gold in your city, you're giving up on Food or Production. Food seems questionable to begin with, because the more population you have, the more food you end up needing. Production is fine, but the problem is, everything you can produce with those production points require gold to maintain.
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