Do you control all your cities or do you use the AI?

**Vikkus** · September 28, 2009, 09:23 AM

Do you delegate control of your money making cities to the AI or do you like total control?

**Seleukos_I.** · September 28, 2009, 09:23 AM

I control them. Why should I let the AI control them?

**ruthless knight** · September 28, 2009, 09:25 AM

all of my cities! thats the magic in the game

**Muffer Nl** · September 28, 2009, 09:33 AM

I control all my cities.

**Lordinquisitor** · September 28, 2009, 09:52 AM

I control all my cities, ofc.

The a.i is simply too dumb to build the right buildings.

**Hermes Trismegistos** · September 28, 2009, 09:56 AM

Me too.

I mean I need most of the time every bit of my money, why should I let the AI throw it out of the window?

**Beregond** · September 28, 2009, 09:56 AM

yep, me too. The AI management is retarded

**Muffer Nl** · September 28, 2009, 10:00 AM

It can only manage taxes to a certain degree but they often make them so high my growth is gone...

**TheCrakFox** · September 28, 2009, 10:04 AM

I control them, I'd rather not have stacks of light infantry built for me in a remote corner of my empire.

**Lordinquisitor** · September 28, 2009, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by Muffer Nl

It can only manage taxes to a certain degree but they often make them so high my growth is gone...

Hmm.. You should do that in most cases anyway. (Of course not that high to get negative growth..)

**Muffer Nl** · September 28, 2009, 10:31 AM

At start, until I get stone walls I put my taxes on low. This ives me a late game advantage over the AI.

**Blackorc** · September 28, 2009, 10:34 AM

I always control my cities because the AI make a mess of it.

**Lordinquisitor** · September 28, 2009, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Muffer Nl

At start, until I get stone walls I put my taxes on low. This ives me a late game advantage over the AI.

Fine, as long as you move your generals out of town. Sadly that way they`ll could miss good farming traits etc. too.

**Witch-king** · September 28, 2009, 10:58 AM

I control all my settlements. I dont trust the AI.

**Skeleton Of The West** · September 28, 2009, 11:40 AM

I control all of my cities, the AI dont know how to manage cities well.

**Smaug** · September 28, 2009, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by Muffer Nl

At start, until I get stone walls I put my taxes on low. This ives me a late game advantage over the AI.

I, on the other hand, always experience early game shortage of cash, whereas later in the game, I have built my economy well enough to support all my undertakings. Thats why I always keep taxes as high as possible as long as the pop growth is positive and the happiness is not red.