I am playing single player with one computer opponent. I am doing rather well this game with the exception of the fact that my settlement is no where near any metal mines (random map, unknown, nomad) so I built a market and started trading wood for metal because there are plenty of trees. Then I discovered that the more I trade the wood for metal, the less I get each time so that now I am getting 1 metal per 100 wood. I built another market thinking that the more markets I had the better the exchange rate would be...nope. What would ben the best course of action to take in this case?
Also, are outposts placed on the edges of your territory the fastest way to expand it? We can only have one town center so it's hard to claim more land. Is there a point where we can have more than one? Are there certain Win Conditions where we can have more than one? I've made it to the City Phase, I thought that we could have more than one in that phase.
Oh, something else I noticed (I'm using Millennium AD) I can place buildings on top of the hills made of rock but my citizens cannot climb up the rocks to build on them...is that a bug? They seem to climb over the hills fine when moving around the land to find a new place to build.