Thread: CIV V is the best of the CIV games so far

Originally Posted by SoySoldier

I don't think the workers build roads like crazy (I don't automate them). I only did at first because in old civ games they did not cost anything to maintain so having roads everywhere was convenient.


In any case, go to the city screen for any city and on the right hand column of windows in the first box (forget it's name off hand... city focus or something) you can adjust the workers focus to food, production, science, culture, great people, whatever. Mess with that to try keep things where you need them and build things make money (market, bank, etc.)

Good city placement at the beginning can save you some coin.

BL

Still playing my first round. I learned something valuable... idle workers destroy the economy.

I mistakenly believed that the idle workers were actually doing something, and I was wrong. I had hundreds of them standing around, but only a few were actually doing anything.

By eliminating all the workers standing around doing nothing I was able to regain control of the gold production once again.

Still, it's annoying how you're forced to choose something to be produced, whether you need it or not. Plus, there is a serious need for an idle character button.

Originally Posted by RagunCajun

Still playing my first round. I learned something valuable... idle workers destroy the economy.

I mistakenly believed that the idle workers were actually doing something, and I was wrong. I had hundreds of them standing around, but only a few were actually doing anything.

By eliminating all the workers standing around doing nothing I was able to regain control of the gold production once again.

Still, it's annoying how you're forced to choose something to be produced, whether you need it or not. Plus, there is a serious need for an idle character button.

If you don't want to make a building or unit, you can always set the city to produce gold/culture/great people. Whichever one you feel like.

What a difference it made. I started a second game, only this time I only created as many workers as I needed, and the gold was-a-flowin'

I only had to contend with the "Happiness" value; which stayed low or negative; until the mid point. After that it crept up to a healthy level.

Now I'm tinkering with the cultural aspects. So far the Commerce (whatever it's called because I can't remember shit) style of government works best in a mostly non-combative scenario.

Keeping most of my smaller cities limited to "Avoid growth" has proved helpful in the earlier stages as well.

Originally Posted by RagunCajun

What a difference it made. I started a second game, only this time I only created as many workers as I needed, and the gold was-a-flowin'

I only had to contend with the "Happiness" value; which stayed low or negative; until the mid point. After that it crept up to a healthy level.

Now I'm tinkering with the cultural aspects. So far the Commerce (whatever it's called because I can't remember shit) style of government works best in a mostly non-combative scenario.

Keeping most of my smaller cities limited to "Avoid growth" has proved helpful in the earlier stages as well.

Look for resources that give you happiness. Later in the game you can abuse the AI selling them to take all their money.

BL

By the way, check out the Civ IV tips thread. It won't be exactly the same in V, but a lot of the stuff mentioned on there still applies in V as well (if I recall correctly). It is mostly about managing happiness and cons (again iirc), so it shouldn't be too out of date.

EDIT Finally got back to playing Civ 5, so I need to amend this a bit. The happiness part is still useful in Civ V, just you have to extend it to a nationwide basis instead of each city. The rest is probably too outdated for the new features to be much help (though i think managing what tiles each city is working is incredibly important but yeah).

Personally though I loved Civ IV! Civ V, despite all the damn DLC packs, and the loss of religion (T_T) is still my favorite over Civ IV, just because it got rid of the damn doomstacks (and the ranged attacks are awesome as well).