Guvner27

Found it kinda fun for a play through doing the zerg and city/outpost spamming, not about to do it a second time though. A possible way to improve the game as mentioned by others would put a upkeep on outposts and fiddle with the prestige buildings and bonuses to the reduce the city spam. City spam can be fun for a little bit but doesn't make for a long lasting experience with multiple play throughs. The only thing limiting city spam is clearing out the hi

Currently most outposts become pretty much useless to me, as any one of my current allies just plonks a city next to it. The allies new city boarder over runs its area of effect. So i have to city spam or go to war with everyone. A possible solution may be to have an option in diplomacy to tell allies to not build cities within X number of tiles of my outpost or they will regret it.