But then what you wrote sounds to me more like you have different expectations about how those things are supposed to work, especially in early game.

can help you with gathering global income, so you can focus on other stuff 'at home'. Hence why you build outposts and additional cities.

but now i cant get more land to take over. Will try that, though my main issue is that i cant gain land without pop, and i build many farms for pop. It's easy to have a ton of income at the start and easily be spending everything at the start of a turn on passive spells or units. You can actually snowball your economy faster by balancing food/gold/draft and giving production more focus at the start.ĭon't forget to also be careful of what Unit Enchantments or other decisions that could be draining your gold early on. If you have gold, build a farm or quarry. You get the bonus of the food and will shave a couple of turns off your starting buildings. For instance, if you have sheep for bonus food, build a quarry. The buildings in there are more powerful for gold as you move across the higher tiers.ĭon't be afraid to mix and match the bonus of your provinces. But you want quarries to build faster and be able to build up your city within the walls.

Originally posted by T圜obb:Farms are just to get your population up at the start. i didnt have enough to get more then 3, tire 1 armies.Īnd i didnt get enough population to gain more Land so i could build more gold mines or farm for food to gain more population to gain more land for more farms. so the gold mines lays behind.Ī) Even if your population grew enough, over time you need higher tier town halls / city upgrades to be able to expand furtherī) you are missing modifiers and probably army upkeep hereĮvery time someone is wondering about such, they forgot to check their army upkeep/structure upkeep, often seeing multiple indicators that they actually expanded too fast / incorrect so that run into such issue to begin with. and when i get land, i tend to build Farms to get More land. i cant build more cause i cant get more Land. I got like 8 farms but my population still wont grow enough to get more land to build more farms.Īnd i got about 5 gold mines.

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