Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Mar 17, 2018

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DNK fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Mar 19, 2018

• Expanding early and often is a good plan usually, particularly since happiness isn't global anymore so you have fewer reasons to not settle a lot of cities.
  
• Getting two or three slingers early, and later upgrading them into archers (which is very cheap) is good too.
  
• Settling by water, particularly fresh water, is important early for the extra housing. You'll really slow your city growth settling without it. Some improvements (every regular one except mines and quarries, as well as some unique ones) provide a bit of housing as well.
  
• If you want to build wonders, you'll probably need to plan ahead, since they now take up a tile and have requirements on where they can be placed.
  
• While food is important to get new cities off the ground, production is your most important yield and what you'll usually be trying to maximize, since housing being a hard-ish cap on population makes keeping up with rising production costs harder.
  
• After you have them, commercial hubs or harbors (one or the other, usually not both) and industrial zones are pretty important to get in most cities. The former raise your trade route capacity when you build one in a city (only for the first one both in the same city doesn't get you a second trade route), while the second is the production district and, well, see the above tip. Even those the later buildings for the IZ have an AoE, it'll be a while before you get those, and also it's a district that is really easy to get good adjacency bonuses for, so building one in all your cities along with workshops, then building factories and power plants in the cities where the AoE will have the most effect (since they don't stack), is often still worth it. (Note: In the expansion, you need to build a market or lighthouse in your commercial hub or harbor for the trade route, it isn't given when you make the district anymore. But since you don't have the expansion yet, don't worry about that.)
  
• Continuing the theme of production being really good, internal trade routes are, at least early, generally better than external ones, since they give food and production, as well as make roads between your cities. You can jump-start a new/lovely city by making some trade routes from it to better cities in your empire; among other things, this is a good way to get Petra up in desert cities that are otherwise useless. External trade routes have their places too though, such as making roads to enemies you want to attack or bringing in lots of gold.
  
• Don't forget about entertainment complexes; while early on you probably won't need them unless you're going for the Colosseum, later, when your cities are big, you'll need amenities and they're a good source of them, but they're a district that's very easy to forget.
  
• Harbors make it so you don't have to settle on the coast to make ships now, since naval units you build will appear in the harbor instead of the city center. Given how fast naval units can gently caress up a coastal city if unopposed, this can be useful to take advantage of.

Roland Jones fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Mar 19, 2018