GamerDad
Chieftain
Well, it was bound to happen. 30+ hours of playtime under my belt and up until this point I haven't experienced anything that I would consider a major glitch or problem. That was until tonight, when I attempted the One City Challenge with the Aztecs on Deity.
Now to be fair, I made a couple of crucial mistakes that could have cost me the game. I waited WAY too long to switch to Democracy after I got it (the reason being I thought it would be cool to get the one religion achievement too; bad idea) and I failed to build a powerful naval defense to protect my gold-producing sea regions. Had I done those two things differently I believe I would have had a great shot at the win, seeing as how I only lost out by a handful of turns, left 500 gold shy of building the World Bank.
What gets my goat, though, is that the ENTIRE game I was pounded on by the Americans from afar (who were in the race and building the United Nations as the game ended) and my neighbors the Arabs (who never were in the race to win at all). Next door to myself and the Arabs was the Spanish, who led from start to finish in tech and eventually won with a successful space trip.
Now I ask, why on God's earth would these two civilizations continue to sit here and pound on me the entire game, never once attacking the Spanish, not even when their spaceship was in flight? I wasn't close to a win until the very end. It was utter ******ation. And it was frustrating... and irritating... and all things that make you angry & liable to throw a controller through the television.
Seriously, though, does anyone know why this happens? I'm really turned off right now and am going to have to take a break. I feel like I sort of got robbed. It's not fair if the AI doesn't fight itself. No one can beat 3/4/5-1 odds.
/rant
Now to be fair, I made a couple of crucial mistakes that could have cost me the game. I waited WAY too long to switch to Democracy after I got it (the reason being I thought it would be cool to get the one religion achievement too; bad idea) and I failed to build a powerful naval defense to protect my gold-producing sea regions. Had I done those two things differently I believe I would have had a great shot at the win, seeing as how I only lost out by a handful of turns, left 500 gold shy of building the World Bank.
What gets my goat, though, is that the ENTIRE game I was pounded on by the Americans from afar (who were in the race and building the United Nations as the game ended) and my neighbors the Arabs (who never were in the race to win at all). Next door to myself and the Arabs was the Spanish, who led from start to finish in tech and eventually won with a successful space trip.
Now I ask, why on God's earth would these two civilizations continue to sit here and pound on me the entire game, never once attacking the Spanish, not even when their spaceship was in flight? I wasn't close to a win until the very end. It was utter ******ation. And it was frustrating... and irritating... and all things that make you angry & liable to throw a controller through the television.
Seriously, though, does anyone know why this happens? I'm really turned off right now and am going to have to take a break. I feel like I sort of got robbed. It's not fair if the AI doesn't fight itself. No one can beat 3/4/5-1 odds.
/rant