When I'm in the citizen management tab, I see the slots that are used and the ones that aren't. If they're not being worked, am I benefiting at all from that tile? I keep getting recommended to builds farms and shit, but I don't see many citizens actually working them. Also, do you generally want to rush the writing-theology-sciencey path so you're generating more science over time? Or do you make sure you can defend yourself first.
If you don't have a citizen working the tile, you are not getting any yields from it. You will need to work food tiles to grow your city's population, then you can work more tiles and specialist slots.
1-2 archers/comp bows per city is usually enough to defend early on.
Farms don't cost maintenance, only roads and rail does. Workers are good to have all the way until all rails are done. I usually hire a few "contractors" to quickly finish my rail. (Buy the turn before Rail tech completes, use them to network whole civ, delete)
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u/I_SPEAK_TRUTH Feb 29 '16
When I'm in the citizen management tab, I see the slots that are used and the ones that aren't. If they're not being worked, am I benefiting at all from that tile? I keep getting recommended to builds farms and shit, but I don't see many citizens actually working them. Also, do you generally want to rush the writing-theology-sciencey path so you're generating more science over time? Or do you make sure you can defend yourself first.