World Civ Exploration Day 1 (September 4th 2013)

             I started exploring the World Civilization Game today. I followed the syllabus and went to the Civilopedia and read through several of the prompts explaining how different parts of the game worked. As I worked through them I began to realize that I needed to actually play the game to get a better understanding of how it worked. I am a learn from trial and error person especially when it comes to gaming.
            I decided to not start up an actual game. I did this when I first downloaded the game and well lets be honest my civilization was conquered because I didn't know what the heck I was doing. For this go round I decided maybe a tutorial would be helpful. I started out with the movement and exploration tutorial in which I was in the civilization of Alexander the Great and I was tasked with finding seven ruins. I worked through my turns slowly but surely and found all the ruins. Running through this tutorial showed me about the fog and helped me navigate my units more easily.
             The second tutorial I went through was the founding cities with the Egyptian Civilization. I enjoyed the added complexity of this tutorial in which I got to find areas that were more suitable for a city to be located and I got some exposure to what units could research and why each research such as mining, coal, animal husbandry etc...was useful and what could be gained from it.
              I started on the third tutorial which involved connecting civilizations together and creating farms,mines and making improvements. This civilization was the one with Caesar. It started out pretty good at first but I became confused on how to make "improvements" I got my people started on the farms right away and a few of the mines but I was stuck on how to improve anything so I decided to stop for the night and take a break and try again at that tutorial later.
          I am beginning to understand what research is needed when and when a city is founded what needs to be done. I am thinking that I am going to go with a more advanced Civilization because when I did my first trial run I chose the Iroquois civilization and couldn't really do too much.