
Often one city-state will ask you to attack another city-state thus negating any influence you may have gained-so be careful when you choose to focus on a city-state. One problem that I noticed immediately was that I had to be careful not to have too many city-state friends.While you can continue to maintain a relationship with city-states by giving gifts this is expensive and maintaining the influence with favors such as clearing out barbarians can be a lot easier and less costly, although be careful this doesn’t divert you from your overall strategies. City-states will form friendships with many civilizations but will only ally with one, so it’s often important to gain a decent relationship with them before any other civilization can, otherwise they can become a thorn in your side.While in the long run, it’s more beneficial to perhaps attack and capture city-states in the early part of a game they can provide resources without the need for you to maintain a city-it helps you focus more on building a strategic position without having to super-expand.Maritime: Cape Town, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Stockholm, Venice.


Cultured: Bucharest, Brussels, Florence, Geneva, Lhasa, Monaco, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Vienna, Warsaw.Militaristic: Almaty, Belgrade, Budapest, Dublin, Edinburgh, Genoa, Hanoi, Ragusa, Sidon, Tyre.
