Hello,
I love civ 5 and have been playing it a tonn recently. I used to play on emperor but wanted a bit more of a challenge so tried out immortal with success. I find I can win the majority of the time on immortal, so stepped it up to Deity with no luck.
I've won on deity a couple of times but find I usually lose. Can you experts answer some quick questions and I'll outline my usual tactic, maybe give some feedback?
Firstly, my typical game:
Favourite civs: The Shoshone, the Maya or Poland (I find Korea+Freedom too powerful so no challenge and Babylon overrated).
Starting Research strategy:
Pottery > Resource research (usually mining) > Library > A couple resource researches > National College research > couple military or resource researches to fill stuff out like being able to build roads > I click on education and queue up the next 6 researches in a row > I click on the tech for workshops.
Starting Builds:
Scout > Worker > Shrine > Library > Settler > Granary/Water Mill
My typical strategy is pray for a religion, build a 2nd city before the national college and buy the library for my 2nd city so I can start the national college right away, then expand if there are any good spots left.
I always go tall, I don't really understand how people can create multiple cities which I'll go into later.
Here are my questions:
1. I will still have problems with happiness with 3 cities, with 4 I'll almost always dip into the negatives sometime during the game. How the heck do people not always go tall? It doesn't make sense to me, it makes me think I'm doing something wrong.
2. I build my artists guild in my capital, writers guild in my 2nd city and music guild in my 3rd city. Is this typical or optimal?
3. I find I don't surpass the computer in tech until the modern era. Is this typical for deity? Is there a faster way to progress in tech?
4. How do people win cultural victories? I played an immortal game where I got nearly all the culture and tourism wonders and was going for a cultural win, I ended up having to delay a diplomatic and science victory just to get the cultural win.
5. I tend to go freedom or autocracy for ideology. I love being able to build troops and give them 3 upgrades right away. I usually delay getting oxford university and time it so as soon as I finish economics oxford university finishes giving me the free tech and unlocking coal/factories. I'm usually first, sometimes 2nd, to get an ideology.
Is this best though? I've found the computer usually loads up on opposing ideologies and forces down my happiness, plus there are always lots of civs attacking me from stealing their techs and differing ideologies. I was thinking it might be best to time it so I'm second to an ideology and then be the leading civ's toadie while going for a science win. It would keep the computer off my back.
6. I read somewhere that people don't like the celts because they find they don't build a lot of their civ bonus buildings, so people don't build opera houses? I don't understand. There's something I'm missing, as going tall I build nearly all the buildings I can in each city, I just prioritize some over others and ALWAYS build opera houses.
7. For social policies:
Tradition - up to free monuments - then finish the tradition tree.
Next depends on how well my culture is doing, if I can I'll go aesthetics and then put the 2nd point into 1/2 time on culture buildings.
I like the commerce tree too, I'll work up the right side and grab the discount on purchasing in cities. That with Big Ben halves the gold cost of troops/buildings.
Rationalism - As soon as it's available I pump it up. I'll continue putting points into rationalism for +specialists, more scientists and plus %tech from universities even if I've adopted an ideology.
Once that's done I'll pump up the ideology until I've unlocked a third tier social policy, then I'll go back and finish up rationalism (usually grabbing atomic theory as the free tech).
Thoughts? Does this strategy seem wise/good/stupid?
Thanks
I love civ 5 and have been playing it a tonn recently. I used to play on emperor but wanted a bit more of a challenge so tried out immortal with success. I find I can win the majority of the time on immortal, so stepped it up to Deity with no luck.
I've won on deity a couple of times but find I usually lose. Can you experts answer some quick questions and I'll outline my usual tactic, maybe give some feedback?
Firstly, my typical game:
Favourite civs: The Shoshone, the Maya or Poland (I find Korea+Freedom too powerful so no challenge and Babylon overrated).
Starting Research strategy:
Pottery > Resource research (usually mining) > Library > A couple resource researches > National College research > couple military or resource researches to fill stuff out like being able to build roads > I click on education and queue up the next 6 researches in a row > I click on the tech for workshops.
Starting Builds:
Scout > Worker > Shrine > Library > Settler > Granary/Water Mill
My typical strategy is pray for a religion, build a 2nd city before the national college and buy the library for my 2nd city so I can start the national college right away, then expand if there are any good spots left.
I always go tall, I don't really understand how people can create multiple cities which I'll go into later.
Here are my questions:
1. I will still have problems with happiness with 3 cities, with 4 I'll almost always dip into the negatives sometime during the game. How the heck do people not always go tall? It doesn't make sense to me, it makes me think I'm doing something wrong.
2. I build my artists guild in my capital, writers guild in my 2nd city and music guild in my 3rd city. Is this typical or optimal?
3. I find I don't surpass the computer in tech until the modern era. Is this typical for deity? Is there a faster way to progress in tech?
4. How do people win cultural victories? I played an immortal game where I got nearly all the culture and tourism wonders and was going for a cultural win, I ended up having to delay a diplomatic and science victory just to get the cultural win.
5. I tend to go freedom or autocracy for ideology. I love being able to build troops and give them 3 upgrades right away. I usually delay getting oxford university and time it so as soon as I finish economics oxford university finishes giving me the free tech and unlocking coal/factories. I'm usually first, sometimes 2nd, to get an ideology.
Is this best though? I've found the computer usually loads up on opposing ideologies and forces down my happiness, plus there are always lots of civs attacking me from stealing their techs and differing ideologies. I was thinking it might be best to time it so I'm second to an ideology and then be the leading civ's toadie while going for a science win. It would keep the computer off my back.
6. I read somewhere that people don't like the celts because they find they don't build a lot of their civ bonus buildings, so people don't build opera houses? I don't understand. There's something I'm missing, as going tall I build nearly all the buildings I can in each city, I just prioritize some over others and ALWAYS build opera houses.
7. For social policies:
Tradition - up to free monuments - then finish the tradition tree.
Next depends on how well my culture is doing, if I can I'll go aesthetics and then put the 2nd point into 1/2 time on culture buildings.
I like the commerce tree too, I'll work up the right side and grab the discount on purchasing in cities. That with Big Ben halves the gold cost of troops/buildings.
Rationalism - As soon as it's available I pump it up. I'll continue putting points into rationalism for +specialists, more scientists and plus %tech from universities even if I've adopted an ideology.
Once that's done I'll pump up the ideology until I've unlocked a third tier social policy, then I'll go back and finish up rationalism (usually grabbing atomic theory as the free tech).
Thoughts? Does this strategy seem wise/good/stupid?
Thanks