20-02-2003 08:21									#1
	City expansion: from the internal pbem... Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

This is something I just noted to Togas based off of what I've noticed from playing game #2. Call me dumb, but I never really overly concerned myself with this before being subjected to the anal level of strategizing induced by playing a multiplayer game in pbem:

quote: 825 B.C. I think I've discovered a key city expansion strategy that I'm only now noticing the clear supierority of because this is a pbem game and I'm anally watching this stuff rather than ignoring it like normal because I normally don't like to bother myself with that much micromanagement... I typically just play. Build your first cities in an array around your capital at 4-6 tiles distant each. In this game, I have 4-5 cites thus arrayed around my capital (though one is nearly an all-jungle city and not useful). This minimizes corruption and gives you a really great production base for propelling the rest of both REX and defense. Any cities beyond that core just build city walls and temples. You let the core cities build all of the military units, settlers, workers, etc. In the inter-team game, especially because we're still under despotism, our next thing to do after getting iron is to found an array of cities around Madrid for the simple reason that corruption/waste will be lower in those cities and they're easier to connect to the capital by road. We need a core group of cities to be a production base.

Thoughts?

	20-02-2003 09:21									#2
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well its dependant on the land

in game 2, i have a long, thing stretch of land.

its easy enough to defend on land, just have to clog one side. but the production i get isnt always as great.

	24-02-2003 05:13									#3
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Unfortunately, our Iron location is far away and we have no choice but to grow laterally to the Iron rather than radially as suggested in the thread starter. And there is a tendency of the map generator to give you a starting location that has a significant amount of radial expansion blocked by water.

But on the rare map where full radial expansion is possible, it is preferred.

	24-02-2003 05:34									#4
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In fact, Pamplona would be a better capital than Madrid, but building a palace now would be too expensive for our expansion and defensive plans... and if we start building one there in the future maybe It would be better to use It as prebuild of the Great Library.