Civilization iv-discussion on the details of playing.

Play can be vaguely divided into: farming and war.

Details are as follows:

Farming: I mainly hope that through my own development, I will not take the initiative to wage war and win. The main ways to win are: launching spacecraft, time victory, diplomatic victory and cultural victory.

War: the main hope is to win by war. The main ways to win are: ruling victory, conquering victory, and diplomatic victory (the war stream in the God of War can also win diplomatic victory because of the existence of a vassal state).

Here, let me introduce aquaculture first. As for the war, I may not update it for the time being, and there is not enough time.

There are many ways to win farmers, but in a word, launching a spaceship is basically the same as winning time. Diplomatic victory is only slightly different from the first two. As for cultural victory, there are many differences, which are not suitable for beginners. I'll talk when I have time.

First of all, it must be explained that all the following things are discussed based on the difficulty of prince or below.

1, launching a spaceship or winning time

If our stated goal is to launch a spaceship or win time, we can be sure that what we need to do in the game includes:

(1), leading in technology.

(2) With sufficient productivity, there should not be too few cities, ideally more than five.

(3) You can protect yourself well from AI, and you can also protect yourself well even if you are declared war.

(4) You can launch a spaceship as soon as possible in modern times, or you can ensure that your score is the first before the arrival of 2050. No one has successfully launched a spaceship (it is not recommended to win in time, and it is not easy for farmers if they can't launch a spaceship themselves).

In view of the above requirements, we can set a simple development idea: to maintain our leading position in science and technology and protect our own safety. How to develop it specifically, I will talk about it here.

First, I personally suggest that we should consider grabbing religion and the alphabet in the early stage. In fact, I was on the second floor of the novice guide to guide you in the initial development process. In my opinion, if everyone is not too different from the situation mentioned in my introductory guide at the initial stage, then basically everyone can be guaranteed to be ahead in scientific research, and in addition, their own safety can be guaranteed. So, I might as well refer to my novice guide more. Here, I want to talk to you in detail about some noteworthy issues.

Second, let's talk about robbing religion first. Reasons for grabbing religion: I hope to make money through religion, increase the happiness and productivity of the city, and hope that most AI people can reach safer diplomatic relations with themselves. All these, there is a certain pressure. To be sure, it is a bit unrealistic to want all seven religions, and we should consider giving up some religions. In my opinion, the first thing to give up is Buddhism, because the technology of Buddhism (meditation) is of little value in the early stage. In addition, if someone in AI has mysticism in initial technology, it is difficult for you to grasp Buddhism itself. Well, since Buddhism has been abandoned, both India and Judaism should seize the miracle because of the need of development.

After grabbing two early religions, don't rush to choose your own national religion before changing the system into an organized religion. Let's look at the automatic spread of religion. If more people are Jewish, you should choose Judaism, and vice versa. Once selected, remember to study writing as soon as possible, and then open OpenBorder with as many people as possible. Let all countries without religion live with you. The method of communication is simple. Just spread religion directly to the largest city in AI (usually the capital). Every artificial intelligence does this. However, those who have already grabbed Buddhism can basically consider giving up spreading religion.

There is a topic here, that is, you grabbed Hinduism and Judaism, but before you and most people opened the OpenBorder, Hinduism and Judaism naturally dispersed separately. At this time, of course, you need to choose a religion owned by more people as the state religion, but those who naturally get AI as the state religion that you have no choice will be different from you, which will be troublesome. Therefore, if necessary, you should consider opening the border first and then establishing a state religion. The purpose is to make all non-robbing Buddhists belong to the same clan as you as much as possible, because once you establish the state religion, you will immediately have a bad relationship with the AI of different state religions, which will lead to the inability to open the border.

Tip: The way to convert a country without religion into the religion you want is that more people in his country believe in the sect you need, such as (as shown in the figure below): a seventh-level city in AI is Judaism (blue box in the figure), another fifth-and fourth-level city is Hinduism, and another second-level city has no religious belief. If you want him to believe in Judaism, you need to send rabbis to a level 5 city to spread it (in the red box in the picture). In this way, AI will generally convert to Judaism. In addition, if an AI discovers a religion, even if the whole country believes in your state religion and only one city believes in its own sect, it is almost certain that AI will turn it into the one he discovered. Therefore, it is important not to let Ai found outside Buddhism rob religion. Of course, if you rob the religious AI and are unwilling to open the border with you from beginning to end (some aggressive countries always do, such as Japan), it doesn't matter if you let him rob you.

How should we rob other religions after that? This requires us to study hard and play more to accumulate experience. I simply say that if you can get Oracle Bone Inscriptions, generally speaking, you can consider getting Confucianism or Christianity for free. Here, my opinion is that it depends, if there are some people who like to rob religion in AI, such as Gandhi and Isabella. They probably robbed Buddhism, and then they probably robbed Confucianism. They must be different from us anyway. So, let Confucianism give them, and they can get Christianity for free. In this way, you don't have to consider robbing religion for the time being. Of course, in fact, if you have the ability and are worried that Confucianism will be taken away by some people of the same clan, then consider taking Confucianism and getting Christianity for free. Of course, this is only my personal recommendation. Of course, Taoism and Islam need to be caught by themselves in the future. Similarly, it is also a good choice for these two sects to surrender to Ai, who has already taken the Buddha. But because philosophy is more important, it is strongly recommended to grasp Taoism. As for Islam, it depends. In fact, after playing too much, there are many ways to meet your needs. These are mainly for my own purposes, that is, I hope to create a relatively good diplomatic atmosphere and let myself develop with peace of mind in a relatively safe situation.

Thirdly, after solving the religious problems, we need to know about the development of some scientific research. First of all, the choice of scientific research is really a science. How to choose a reasonable scientific research method, how to conduct scientific and technological transactions reasonably, and how to stay ahead in science and technology all need to be done well. First of all, it is almost certain that at first, most AI will not give priority to religious science and technology, nor will they learn the alphabet too quickly. These are all worthy of our study, so that after we study the alphabet first, we can trade a considerable amount of religious technology. At the same time, the main function of religious science and technology is to rob religion. Now that we have grabbed it, it is not painful to change these technologies. Here, what we should pay attention to is that under the premise of working hard for our own big goals, we should consider choosing some technologies that AI is not actively studying as much as possible, so that we can do more transactions with AI, and at the same time, it is easier for us to maintain our leading position in science and technology. Because your latest research technology is usually ahead of an era and will not be traded very early.

In the general direction of scientific research, it must be for the big goal, that is, to keep ahead in science and technology, develop better and try to safeguard the security of our country. Therefore, some noteworthy technologies, such as the alphabet and liberalism, must strive for the first discovery. How to judge the importance of a technology can be divided into two categories: whether this technology can bring revolutionary changes, such as the alphabet can start technology trading. Whether this technology is necessary for a series of technological developments in the future, such as papermaking. Whether this technology can provide something important, for example, being the first to discover that liberals can get a technology for free. Whether this technology can greatly improve a person's military strength, such as gunpowder is a very important military technology in the enlightenment era. In a word, we can gradually learn some selection methods of scientific research through various judgments according to our own needs and accumulated experience.

I believe that the transaction problem of science and technology must have troubled many novices. Technology trading can be roughly divided into several steps. First of all, we should always look at the technology that AI has but we don't have through F4, and we can also see the technology that AI doesn't have. Then, we must consider how to trade the most cost-effective. Of course, try to trade as low as possible and give priority to trading. The principles can be simply listed as follows: try to make everyone's scientific and technological level have a certain gap with himself, but let the scientific and technological level with good relationship but low score be close to himself; Don't trade useful technology too early. For example, if you have just discovered the alphabet, of course, you have to wait for a while before trading when the alphabet is meaningless (that is, AI is ready to study this technology or has begun to study the alphabet). In addition, some important military technologies should be considered rather than lost, and all transactions should be postponed until the last minute. As for miracle technology, it is important to ensure that you can grab a miracle before trading (provided that you intend to grab a miracle, you can trade the miracle technology that you don't want to grab early). Then, one principle of technology trading is that you can ignore those who are far behind in technology, but if they extort technology from you, you might as well give them as much as possible, which will increase your goodwill without threatening your leading position in technology. Finally, for those people whose technology is not far from you, but who threaten to give it to you, you must refuse their unreasonable demands. Of course, I really don't want to lower my good opinion. I can load the progress of the previous 1 and 2 rounds and trade this technology with the AI that threatens you as soon as possible.

Tip: Here, I will teach you which option is better to use in the transaction of the novice guide. I'll go deeper, trading technology, and everyone can try to take the bottle needed for scientific research as the standard. Then try to make the technical value of the bottle in your trading room as close as possible to that provided by AI (but AI often provides less than yours, and then they may provide some money. The point is, if AI doesn't have a bottle worthy of technology that is close to the bottle worthy of technology that you plan to trade for the time being, at this time, if you still want to trade, AI is often willing to provide all his money, but I personally think this is not good for us. The importance of money is not too great. Don't let AI approach you with less money so quickly in technology.

Fourth, the choice of urban construction address. The main purpose of building a new city is to seize resources, occupy territory and improve productivity and scientific research level. Therefore, choosing the construction site of the city must be carefully considered. Here is mainly about the selection principle of the first new city. First of all, try to find a place not too far from the capital. Secondly, we should try our best to find important resources (such as copper, iron and horses, granite and marble). Then we should consider whether the more resources the better, or whether the productivity is high enough. Finally, it is necessary to calculate the final food supply of the city, an expectation of the final productivity, and the supply of gold coins and so on. To calculate these things, we need to read the encyclopedia of civilization carefully, understand the supply of various terrains, the bonus of various resources, the bonus brought by various technologies and so on. Through these, you can roughly calculate the final grain, productivity and gold coins of the city.

Tip: I pointed out in the beginner's guide that each city, including the city itself, has only 25 available grids (that is, providing food, productivity and gold coins). Therefore, when you choose a city, of course, the first thing is to try not to duplicate those squares with your existing city. Besides, you should only focus on those 25 squares.

Here, let me give you an example of failure first. In the picture below, the city simply chooses to build a city where more resources are available. In order to get the gem mine in the blue box, it did not choose to build a city in the red box. However, in this way, the city will not be a coastal city, so it is impossible to build lighthouses, ports and so on. As a result, the food supply in the available seaside places is insufficient (the lighthouse can supply+1 food for all seaside grids), and finally the overall food supply in the city is insufficient, leading to the city reaching the relative limit of level 7. Here, I want to emphasize that you should never choose a city simply because of the resources you can see in the early stage, unless there are important resources, in fact, many resources can only be seen after scientific and technological discovery in the later stage. Therefore, when building a new city, it is essential to calculate the final expected situation of the city, otherwise the later stage of urban development may be as regrettable as the city in the picture. Of course, the choice of a city requires experience, and you will naturally understand it if you play more.

Fifth, how to protect yourself. Farming factions often complain that it is difficult to protect themselves without military strength. Of course, the relationship with most people is to please or above, so as to ensure that you will not be declared war by too many people. However, as long as the relationship is cautious or below, then AI will declare war, if it is 100%, but AI will choose a time. I have advised you to give up Buddhism before. Therefore, there must be one or more AI's (generally speaking, your relationship is not good enough) to declare war on you soon (provided that you concentrate on farming and your military strength is seriously insufficient). First of all, you'd better moderately develop your military strength outside farming. Well, for example, every time the times change, every city will build one or two troops appropriately, but these 1 and 2 troops will have a round of output (the reason is very simple, the military units that are temporarily unnecessary do not need to provide maintenance fees). In addition, once Buddhists declare war on you, you must help your people through diplomatic means. Your own strength is absolutely not enough. Of course, AI's declaration of war requires us to fight more and accumulate more experience. In addition, if the novice really doesn't like building the army, once AI declares war, redeploy your defense before the load of 15-25 rounds.

If this AI is far away from you (not adjacent to you), it may first fight against the AI of the same clan living around it, or it may directly declare war on you (provided that the AI adjacent to you opens its borders). In these two cases, the first one, if they strike a balance, you can clap your hands and applaud. If the guy you live with doesn't have a good war, then you have two choices. Call an AI to help him attack Buddhists. In addition, you send troops to weaken AI. Generally speaking, your troops are basically absent, so try to find an AI helper. In the second case, unfortunately, you need to do a lot of work.

Tip: You must always pay attention to the diplomatic interface (F4 is a shortcut key), so that you can find out whether this Buddhist has opened the border with your neighboring countries, as long as you find this situation. Then, the follow-up treatment is just like if this Buddhist is next to you.

Finally, it is worth considering that no matter how you don't develop the military, I suggest you develop your military strength appropriately in the Middle Ages, even if Buddhists (that is, AI people different from you) didn't harass you before. At this time, you must use the Taj Mahal or two great men cruelly to develop a golden age, develop military strength for a period of time, and at the same time ensure your own safety, you also have certain defensive capabilities in modern times. Of course, we might as well declare war on the weaker 1-2 Buddhist AI. Or, you can get some benefits.

2. Diplomatic victory

(1), leading in technology.

(2) There are enough productive forces, but not too few cities. The ideal number is more than five, and it is best to have the largest territory.

(3) You can protect yourself well from AI, and you can also protect yourself well even if you are declared war.

(4) Make good relations with as many AI as possible to please.

First, regarding many details, I won't repeat what I discussed earlier. Here, I mainly focus on what should be paid attention to in diplomatic victory. The fundamental difference between a diplomatic victory and launching a spaceship is that his pursuit of science and technology is not as high as that of a spaceship, but it will certainly be better to be ahead. In addition, his demand for territory is higher than launching a spaceship, and it is best that his own territory is the largest among all people, which ensures that you are in an advantage in diplomatic victory. In addition, there are essential differences in some diplomatic treatments. First of all, you need to know who is the most populous AI, which will be your competitor (you can only judge by experience or make some estimates here). For this person, you don't need to pay attention to any threats from him in technology trading, and you can also trade with him as little as possible to ensure that his technology is not close to you. However, you can use this AI to protect yourself, that is, let him attack Buddhist AI. As for all the other AIs you live with, you should be as responsive as possible, so that they have as much positive value as possible, and it is best not to have negative value. Besides, you must ensure that the United Nations was founded by you.

Second, diplomatic victory can also be achieved through the flow of war, which is not discussed here for the time being. We must first make it clear that diplomatic victory requires everyone to do their best to ensure good diplomatic relations in the international arena. So it will be highly dependent on religion. Therefore, I strongly suggest that all religions must be divided between you and the AI2 family who believe in Buddhism. In addition, you should make sure to spread your national religion to all other AI who have not found religion. In addition, we can try to slow down the demand for early miracles and technology, and give priority to early immigrants to make our territory large enough. At the same time, you can develop more military strength than the victory of the spaceship, because it is best to beat the Buddhist badly, occupy his territory, or ensure that his territory is too small to affect your diplomatic victory. Of course, you can also make Buddhists the diplomatic winners who compete with you, so that others will almost certainly vote for you. The problem is to ensure your own safety. Finally, I can only say, good luck. Diplomatic victory is more difficult to control than launching a spaceship. Anyway, there is not much difference between the two. If you fail, you still have a chance to change your policy immediately and launch a spaceship to win.

Third, if you find that your relationship with most people is not as good as your diplomatic competitors. For example, as shown in Figure 2 below, the situation will be explained first. Besides me, China is the most populous country in the world, so China is my diplomatic competitor. Figure 1 shows my relationship with other countries, and Figure 2 shows the relationship between China and other countries. And Brenus is the most populous country except China and me (the red box in the picture shows the relationship between him and our two countries). Therefore, in order to win diplomatic victory, it is absolutely necessary for Brenus to have a better relationship with China than with China. However, through simple addition and subtraction, it is found that the relationship between China and Brenus is very good, while the relationship between China and Brenus is not as good as the former. So diplomatic victory is very difficult. Once this situation is discovered, we must consider giving up diplomatic victory (that is, we don't have to rush to establish the United Nations ourselves). Of course, if you are confident that you can get on well with Brenus, a key figure, and make your relationship better than that between China and him, then you still have a chance to win in diplomacy. Basically, calculating the possibility of diplomatic victory is to calculate the relationship between everyone in the world and you, and compare the relationship between other people in the world and your competitors, which is better. Of course, diplomatic victory requires two-thirds of the world's population to support you (this population includes the population of your own country and the population that supports your country). Simply put, your competitors and their supporters, plus the total population of countries that abstain, cannot exceed the world's 1/3. Therefore, it is necessary to calculate these.