What level should we play at?

Settler
Chieftain
Warlord
Noble
Prince
Monarch
Emperor
Immortal,
Deity
Random

I say that we go middle of the road, so that is it not to difficult but not too hard. But I do need someone to explain the differences between the levels.

Noble is the default, and every multiplayer game on Gamespy uses noble. Higher than noble you get slower research, less health and happiness, and more dangerous barbarians.

I don't see any reason to choose a different difficulty, but maybe we could let Sirian decide?

I figured Noble as well, anythign higher and popping huts can suck alot :(
Anything lower and a random event could swing the whole game early on
(you can get settlers and workers from huts on lower levels)

But yeah if Sirian Decided that would be cool too

Here is the differences, this is thanks to
RoBo found in thread
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=153119&highlight=difficulty+level

I will now edit this to show you what factors actually mean anything for our game (since Ai Bonuses mean nothing)

Okay here is the edited one I will do my best to explain what each value name does:

iFreeWinsVsBarbs: you win this many times versus barbarians no matter what
iAnimalAttackProb: if an animal is beside you the % it will attack you next turn
iStartingLocPercent: Shouldn't matter Sirian is doing the map
IGold: Starting gold, no effect
iFreeUnits:How many units you get before you have to pay maintenance
iUnitCostPercent:Multiplier for amount you pay for each unit over the excess
iReasearch%:Amount each tech costs, based on default value
iDistanceMaintenance%:multiplier for maintenance costs for distance from capital
inumcitiesMaintenance%: maintenance multiplier for how many cities you have
imaxNumCitiesMaintenance: ??
iCivicUpkeepPercent: Civic upkeep multiplier
iInflation%: how much inflation goes up (multiplier)
HeathBonus: How much health you start with
HappyBonus: how many :) you start with

you get the idea....

I vote let Sirian decide.

If Sirian is an option, I'm fine with that.

If not, I vote Noble.

I voted Noble also.

Any higher than that, and it's just a strugle to manage happiness and health... which is fine, but takes the focus off inter-team dynamnics... and becomes a battle against your own cities.

Let Sirian decide, if that is not an option let's have prince, we seem to have the more exprienced people who know how to deal with this than the other teams, so this might be to our advantage to have a more difficult level.

I voted Prince cos it is new game for all of us ... and it will be still a challenging play ... I'd prefer to have a say on it and not Sirian.

If you want sirian to decide then vote for Random. It seems like most people want sirian to play the game for us.

Well so far we have a tie for noble and prince:

As the general UN is going:

aloha votes Noble
Piffle votes Prince
Innovia votes Prince

So if we go Prince we can swing the vote, or go noble and leave it up to Loco
Or get Sirian on our good side and give us a good map by voting for him :goodjob:

By the looks of it, Sirian wins, so I will vote that way. I was waiting for Admin comfirmation.

I'm an idiot - I never actually voted in this until this morning (voted Prince). But then I just reread the thread, and I see that I had verbally opted for Noble.

I don't really care either way, and I'm not even sure it matters since C_H has already logged our team choice in the UN.

By the looks of it, Sirian wins, so I will vote that way. I was waiting for Admin comfirmation.

Actually I request that you change our vote to Prince !!!

When you made the above statement, I actually wondered how you could interpret, as it stood at the time, 1 Random, and a tie for Prince and Noble at 4 to be one for Sirian's Choice :confused: I was going to comment at the time, but then decided to wait for more votes ... I didn't realise that you were actually going to post in UN ... sorry :blush:

Perhaps with polls that have no closing date, when these things occur ... it may be a good idea to post an intention of what you are planning to do, with a 1 day notice.

I can see where confusion happened cos many people posted very confusing messages of wanting to vote for options which were not made clear by the game administrators ... however when they ended up voting they voted for a specific difficulty level ... and it is now plainly clear, that the late voters have chosen Prince. It may make things easier for the administrators as well as other teams didn't really understand that Sirian was an option ... I interpreted Random as being decided by the game's RNG.

EDIT ... perhaps a legitimate reason is the lateness of some voters.

We had alot of verbal voters saying Sirian so that it what I went for because many of those votes were way before what we have right now.

Out of principle, I agree with Fe. You should have waited until it was clear that the people wanted a specific option.

However, at this point I do not believe you can change anything, and it is likely that Sirian will select one of the two we were bickering over anyway.

Now that it has been decided that the game will be played a prince the only thing that affects the early game is the hut probabilities:

High Gold: 10%
Low Gold: 20%
Map: 10%
Warrior: 10%
Scout: 5%
Experience: 5%
Healing: 5%
Teach: 10%
Weak Barb: 15%
Strong Barb: 5%


Basically it boils down to 1/5 you pop barbs, meaning you might lose your exploring unit. However at this level I would still say it is worth the risk to pop huts, if sirian puts any on :mischief: