Razor1952
08-28-2005, 11:20
I thought I'd repost a thing which has been discussed before but I'm sure some new players may not be aware of.
1. Problem , I need to increase population of one city quickly (eg.so I can build the new governor level, typically that would be Imperial Palace in Rome at 24k people.)
Solution, moove all governors out of city except Rome (or target city) take next city by conquest and send all the slaves to Rome/target. Don't forget to moove your governors back before ending your turn!. You can easily achieve a huge city quickly. You should of course leave it fully garrisoned and use your best governor influence so you don't get revolts. Once you get the magical population you'll probably get negative growth but so what, just follow #2 or #3 and shift the population elsewhere.
2. Problem: City which is prone to revolts /difficult to handle, you want to reduce its population quickly.
Solution Moove your troops outside the city walls, then GIVE! your city by diplomacy to whoever you are at war with. Immediately retake the city and exterminate population. Instant relief.
3. Problem : I want to moove the big population at city A to city B
Solution: You of course can combine strategy #1 and #2, so you don't even have to conquest a new city, of course you then send the population as slaves to target city rather than externminate as in #2 method.
Downsides. Not many but obviously any building half built will be cancelled, so for example you can't moove Rome's ~24k people out before the Imperial Palace is finished. Once finished then go ahead and give Capua an Imperial Palace if you want.
Wishes for expansion: the ability to direct all slaves to one city, rather than cumbersome technique of mooving governors out then back in.
Some would say these methods are cheating, but I guess every player has to make his own mind about that.
cheers.
1. Problem , I need to increase population of one city quickly (eg.so I can build the new governor level, typically that would be Imperial Palace in Rome at 24k people.)
Solution, moove all governors out of city except Rome (or target city) take next city by conquest and send all the slaves to Rome/target. Don't forget to moove your governors back before ending your turn!. You can easily achieve a huge city quickly. You should of course leave it fully garrisoned and use your best governor influence so you don't get revolts. Once you get the magical population you'll probably get negative growth but so what, just follow #2 or #3 and shift the population elsewhere.
2. Problem: City which is prone to revolts /difficult to handle, you want to reduce its population quickly.
Solution Moove your troops outside the city walls, then GIVE! your city by diplomacy to whoever you are at war with. Immediately retake the city and exterminate population. Instant relief.
3. Problem : I want to moove the big population at city A to city B
Solution: You of course can combine strategy #1 and #2, so you don't even have to conquest a new city, of course you then send the population as slaves to target city rather than externminate as in #2 method.
Downsides. Not many but obviously any building half built will be cancelled, so for example you can't moove Rome's ~24k people out before the Imperial Palace is finished. Once finished then go ahead and give Capua an Imperial Palace if you want.
Wishes for expansion: the ability to direct all slaves to one city, rather than cumbersome technique of mooving governors out then back in.
Some would say these methods are cheating, but I guess every player has to make his own mind about that.
cheers.