With the onset of game play it took me a little while to figure out what was going on but the tutorial was a great help. My intial strategy was and still is to be passive until I have expanded all over Africa (I am playing as the Egyptians). I chose to play as the Egyptians because of Diamonds statement on where many of the large beasts of burden reside. So I am a pacifist. For instance, Ghengis Khan will tell me to cancel trade agreements with India and I will refuse, but I will open up more trade agreements with Ghengis Khan. Whether or not this works I do not yet know. The largest problem I have faced in the game (aside from technical problems) was barbarians. I was solely focused on expanding my empire and didn't upgrade nor provide enough troops to patrol my land and I quickly learned that clubs verse steel will always result in clubs losing.
In terms of resources I trade with just about everyone to bring in mostly outside sources of food like dear and goat, but I also trade skills that I have upgraded. Like I said before I didn't build a lot of men so I focused on buildings and raising the culture of the people.
Diamond's book mostly predates all the happens of this game, but it is true that without the initial food surplus non of this game would be possible. Cities wouldn't grow and religion would form. There would be no warriors...and so on and so forth.
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Trading in this game is good, even though I have not yet traded. It is good for the economy and growth, of your city. It helps to develop good relations with the foreign coutries, hence you gain allies and not enemies, and at the same time gainig valuable assests that your nation needs. I will take this trading into consideration when I continue to play the game, look for it in my next blog :)
I expecially like when countries want my uranium for copper. If I have uranium why would I not have copper?!
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