How many cities is considered wide?

[namresaw33]

I usually do 3-5 and have been told that's tall. So what is the number of cities for wide empires?

[[PBS]RustyFork]

Depend on the map you are playing, i usually play on small and 4-5 cities is considerd wide empire.
The land your cities control is as important as the number of your cities imo.

[Ryika]

I'd say around 7+ is where wide starts, because that's where it starts making sense to pick up Liberty over Tradition, and that's where you really start running into the problems of wide-related strategies and have to play a certain way to circumvent these problems if you don't just want to lose out on efficiency.

Up to 5 cities is "tall", and 6 is that weird hybrid that produces more problems than it has benefits.

Of course there's no universal definition for these things, and people will have their own opinions.

[Tasi]

This is what I conssider "wide". Look at the minimap.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=144913019

[General Malaise]

I usually do 2 or 3, and then capture others. Keep the Capitals, and good or strategic Cities, and burn the rest. Am I going tall or wide?

[All talk and no fight]

To me, i'd consider wide to be 6-7 cities as wide.
4-5 is tall because you have 4 cities that get growth bonuses, have a free monument and aquaduct greatly helping their growth really quickly, and than you'd maybe have a 5th city settled away from the other 4 whose only purpose is to connect a strategic resource you don't have but need, like coal.

[lukebaird84]

Originally posted by TheFaithOfLeftismSucks:

I usually do 2 or 3, and then capture others. Keep the Capitals, and good or strategic Cities, and burn the rest. Am I going tall or wide?

Wide vs. Tall is more applicable for Science/Diplomatic/Cultural victory routes than Domination, but in a sense you could consider that tall because you're settling 2-3 core cities that support your victory progress.

I consider 4 to be tall. You get all the bonuses from tradition for those four cities and you send their populations to infinity.

5 is tall on standard+ maps, but your fifth city would be for either military reasons (such as a strong defensive base to protect your core cities from Montezuma) or for strategic resources like m3mxDDDD said.

6 cities can still very rarely be tall, but I would never recommend playing for a cultural victory with 6 cities. Oonce as Rome I played a "tall" strategy going for science victory with 6 cities because I was able to settle, after my original four cities, two more cities next to a mountain and river, so I considered those cities would be able to make themselves with time as powerful as my original four tradition cities. Sure enough, 100 turns later I had a truly tall six-city empire.

7+ is where you get to truly wide, which I find nice going for Diplomatic victory (city connections to infinity!) or, if you have lots of good spots to settle, for science.

[General Malaise]

Originally posted by lukebaird84:

Originally posted by TheFaithOfLeftismSucks:

I usually do 2 or 3, and then capture others. Keep the Capitals, and good or strategic Cities, and burn the rest. Am I going tall or wide?

Wide vs. Tall is more applicable for Science/Diplomatic/Cultural victory routes than Domination, but in a sense you could consider that tall because you're settling 2-3 core cities that support your victory progress.

I consider 4 to be tall. You get all the bonuses from tradition for those four cities and you send their populations to infinity.

5 is tall on standard+ maps, but your fifth city would be for either military reasons (such as a strong defensive base to protect your core cities from Montezuma) or for strategic resources like m3mxDDDD said.

6 cities can still very rarely be tall, but I would never recommend playing for a cultural victory with 6 cities. Oonce as Rome I played a "tall" strategy going for science victory with 6 cities because I was able to settle, after my original four cities, two more cities next to a mountain and river, so I considered those cities would be able to make themselves with time as powerful as my original four tradition cities. Sure enough, 100 turns later I had a truly tall six-city empire.

7+ is where you get to truly wide, which I find nice going for Diplomatic victory (city connections to infinity!) or, if you have lots of good spots to settle, for science.

I suppose I go tall, but I don't know how to get really populalated Cities.

My current game, my Capital is 21 Pop in 1814. I've been feeding it since I first build a sea trade route near the begining, and bought a Hospital as soon as researched.

I'd say my average amount of cities is around 2.3. Definitately 2 more than 3. 3 in this game, but the third was a great location, and came after NC.

I suppose I'm tall, but not all that tall.

:)