22-10-2000 07:38									#1
	Silverdragon's short tips thread Got spare money?

Do you people have any short tips that we could assemble into an intelligent tips thread. The short tips in the short tips section are mostly just people bragging about impossible things such as winning on diety by 3000, and newbies posting not to attack with galleons or engineers.

	22-10-2000 08:38									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Build Caravans... and then Build MORE Caravans!

	23-10-2000 02:06									#3
	Full PM-box? Change here!

And when you get Freight, build tons of them and send them around the wrold via Airport.

Rush to Radio, and using a single city with an airport as a landing point, settle continents quickly!

	23-10-2000 15:55									#5
	Inflate your Upload Space

If you get the Statue of Liberty before you get to Industrialisation, you can swap into Fundamentalism for a few turns to get all those shield-hungry factories underway at max production, instead of supporting units.

	23-10-2000 20:46									#6
	Full PM-box? Change here!

One of the simplest tips is :
"Don't ignore the power of trade"
Without trade (workers on trade producing tiles, and delivering caravans), you are handicapping your cashflow, science output and potentially your civilization happiness.

How about :
"scan the titles of threads in the strategy forum" (including those older than 10 days, and the archives)?

There are quite a few specific topic threads as well as some other generic threads (include several singled out in the Apolyton great library thread)

"Distilled civ tips and notes thread" also could be useful.

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Sleep is a luxury and I don't have Shakespeare's Theatre in my back yard.

	23-10-2000 22:24									#7
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Establish your own playing style. You'll read lots of contradictory advice here; you have a choice of cloning one of the better-documented styles, or finding out what you're good at and what you enjoy doing. The latter point is important - the game is supposed to be fun, not some dreary tweaking of spreadsheet columns.

	23-10-2000 22:36									#8
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

The best advice I ever received was to stop "reverting", i.e., saving the game, trying something, and reloading the saved game if I didn't like the results. While this doesn't offer a tip on strategy, it does offer a tip on improving skill level. In other words, learn from your mistakes, don't excuse them.

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Frodo lives!

Better dead than "Red"... or green... or blue... or yellow... or orange... or purple... or white.

	24-10-2000 04:05									#9
	Got spare money?

Agreed DaveV! The game is meant to be fun and is fun. One of the reasons I don't play much OCC is that I feel "cheated" with such a short turn!
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