I note from some downloaded games that some geniuses(?) finish the game well before time with every city in Capitalisation, every city with railroads and farmland in every square and one or two games even managing multi increase in Future Technology every turn.

So, how do you do that? And what's the best way to use settlers throughout? I work on one per city but that clearly isn't enough. Do I need 2,3,4 or even more from cities and none from others, or what?

Is there a thread to help with this already, to save me wading through 18 pages?

Generally, you can never have enough settlers/engineers as long as there is land to be improved and cities to be founded. Cities can always be grown up using WLTxD or even food caravans later once the work is finished and the engineers are disbanded. As long as most tiles in the city radius are being worked, don't worry about food surplus/deficit or how much is in support. When I was playing in full-blown expansion mode, every once in a while i would change nearly every city i had to building engineers, then let them go back to what they were doing. Also, I would set up 'breeding factories' It would be a city with 40-50 production, at least 1 food surplus and celebrating in a democracy. Every turn it would crank out an engineer and I would either rehome it elsewhere, or build a city with it so that production and the city size stayed constant. With a handful of cities like that, expanding across the globe
will be a breeze. Once the AIs are out of the picture, you can really start concentrating on fullscale terraforming, infrastructure improvements, and city building. Getting them to max size and all happy is the last thing you do.

So i guess what I'm trying to say, if you can think of something for an engineer to do and you don't have one free to do it, you don't have enough engineers yet

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April Cantor: Sire, in order to expand further we must first gain favor of the King

SCG: darn, I've never really got the hang of that tribute thing, guess it will be a long time until i make prince

build some more!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I often use dwarfs fairly early in the game but then have to disband some of them when changing to democracy. In the fantasy game, you can have your engineers, but you have to work harder to deserve them.

- toby

quote: Originally posted by Scouse Gits on 09-01-2000 05:26 AM It's generally regarded as a cheat in OCC, but I know of no such ruling elsewhere - when you are expanding into virgin territory at late stages of the game - don't bother with roads, railways, irrigation and farms - build airbases - two engineers, one turn - fully improved terrain - of course if you need to terraform so be it, but the timeconsuming improvement - no way...

I know, in some ways I'm still a newbie, virgin, novice, whatever, but please bear with me.

I've tried to build airbases inside city squares. No dice. Is that a rule? No airbases within city limits? I must have missed that when I pored over the manual. Yeah, right.

But the thought just occurred to me. Late in a non-OCC game, couldn't I build an airbase first, then locate the city to include the airbase? If so, how hot would that be?

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Frodo lives!

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