
The city already got a Library, and you're probably wondering that the city is working an unimproved Grassland Forest. This of course is less efficient, but when it comes to Oxford, speed is what matters, because every turn you get Oxford earlier, is a huge gain in ).

If you aren't IND and need a University very fast, it can be possible that you'll delay the Forge until after the University. Libraries but especially Universities are large builds, so we calculated that a Forge in this city would pay back very fast (in this case we were even IND, so it was really a no-brainer. The Happiness limit was still quite low, that's why we prefered Mines over Farms. chose this city as one of six cities that should get a University. The city got two Mines, because production was needed the most, as we 1. To make it easier for you, I've fully written out everything I abbreviate in the following at least once!Ī lot of new things, compared the the screenshot of before. One last note, before we start: It's very important for you, to learn to read the abbreviations that get frequently used on this site. City specialization nowadays is also much more dependent on the land that is given to you and on the situation your empire is in. While people tried to press cities in certain roles, depending mostly on the type of economy, players nowadays all understood that a hybrid economy, which uses all concepts together depending on which is currently the strongest / most helpful option, is optimal. The concept of city specialization has developed very much in the time CIV was / is being played.

This actually belongs to the main concept of the CIV Illustrated guides, that we (in this case again I) want that our guides are easy to read and useful for beginners as well as we hope that even the pros can learn from them or have fun reading them.Īgain, if you appreciate our (my) effort, please don't forget to rate the thread. In the following you'll again find a lot of screenshots which will help explaining the theoretical part in the beginning. This issue is quite long, as city specialization is a very complex topic, lets hope that it doesn't get longish. You have discovered the next issue of CIV Illustrated. CIV Illustrated #3: City specialization explained
