Sid Meier's Civilization

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Recently started playing VI, have a few questions (feddit.nl)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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does trading among your own cities get you more resources, or are they simple transferred between cities?
how much should I follow the recommendations for producing stuff? Sometimes it's useful but it almost never tells me to produce a builder even though they seem kinda crucial
how fast should I be expanding? Should I be starting cities as much and as quickly as possible?
is it me, or is it very hard to trade favorably or even equally with non-human players? They never seem to be OK with trading one resource for another. They always want some gold too.

I'm only on my second game so far, so still figuring things out. Enjoying it a lot though!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Assuming you have GS and RF DLCs.

trading earns food and production that isn’t taken away from the destination city.
For builders do the recommended thing (edit to clarify: choose the resources you want and ignore the map icons, that just shows what is closest, but once you're on the resource build the recommended thing that it says), for science researches and culture civics try to hit the inspirations where you can before researching, and with city production do whatever the hell you want, screw the recommendations.
To build wide or to build tall are two different strategies. I think 4 cities is good for the tall strategy, lots of cities if wide but watch that your people are happy (aim to develop new kinds of luxury resources with your Builder units or trade ones you have extra with what your enemies have extra but you don't have). Settling quickly is good, just don't overextend lest you get screwed by barbarian or an AI or player who sees a good opportunity to war you.
AI trading gives you more favourable trades when in a good relationship and terrible trades if they denounce you. Often times you can snag open borders for 1 coin even in neutral. The main thing you want to trade is spare luxury resource for spare luxury resource like I said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't have any of the DLCs, but when I play online with a friend they are enabled automatically it seems.

Thank you for the answers! I'm gonna try at some point to build tall. For now I've been founding lots of cities.