Making the Change

As I said in my last post, I had insufficently placed my cities. I tried to expand to fast and gain more land, but that did not work because I could not supply resources to the new cities fast enough. The result was the attacks of barbarians on my newly built cities. It seemed like the barbarians knew my strategy as one of their barbarians would wait at my borders until I built a new city. I knew I needed to produce a defense system as soon as possible, but I could not build one fast enough. The barbarians where there to destroy the city before I could produce any type of military personnel. So after my mishaps I rellized that I was in need of a serious strategy change if I wanted to stay on top of the world as the most advanced and largest empire. So I decided to build my cities closer together and expansion of my land would come with time and my advancements of technology. After my change of strategy I found that by building cities closer to each other made it easier for them to build up into a highly developed area with a good demand being supplied of natural resources. This is the same concept in the United states today. Cities, towns, or local communites that are located close to big metropolitan areas are more than often more prosperous than the small rural areas. The small rural cities are very important to the large cities because they have farms or other resources that supply the larger cities with their demand for a certain good. But these cities take a chance of being overruned by developmental projects for more housing, eliminating the cities importance. This is what I thought would be a good idea. I thought that putting my cities far away close to trees and other natural resources would be a good idea, and for a little bit it was because it was supplying me with very important natural resources, just like small rural cities in the United States. But this is not working in my game or in the United States. Barbarians are killing my cities in the game and the need for land for the booming real estate industry has overruned and dissipated some of the small rural cities in the United States.