Question about AI difficulty levels in DS version

ianpwilliams

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I read somewhere about the Nintendo DS version that depending on the AI difficulty level the game is always much too easy or much too hard. Is this true? I'm a fairly casual gamer so I'm not looking for a really high difficulty level, but at the same time I don't want it to be too easy.
 
I would say play on warlord or king diffilculty. Cheiftain is way too easy and Deity is too difficult. So play on king or warlord, for a happy medium.
 
Start on Chieftan, enjoy the 100% attack / defense bonus. Pay attention to the tutorial. Play another game as a different Civ. Try for a different victory.

Play your next few games on Warlord. See how the lower attack / defense bonus changes things. Play as some different Civs. Learn the tech tree, the first bonuses, and the Civ bonuses.

Then move up to King. Get thumped 'cause you don't have that attack / defense bonus anymore. Improve your explore, expand & build techniques. Go back and re-read the online manual. Play the Civs you haven't tried yet. Go for victories you haven't.

Once you're winning most of your games on King, move up to Emperor and get thumped again. Improve your game more through experience. Find the level which is "fun" to play for you.
 
Sounds good, looks like an excellent port.

Civ Rev ain't a port. It's a unique version of Civ, streamlined for console play. The DS version is exactly the same as the PS3 & 360 versions, adapted to the DS's screen size & controls. But the AI that you play on the DS is exactly the same as the one I play on my PS3.
 
Then move up to King. Get thumped 'cause you don't have that attack / defense bonus anymore.

That explains why the difficulty level seemed to jump up quite sharply when I was playing the PS3 version. Civ Rev on the DS is one of the reasons I bought a DS.
 
Nah, King is just harder than Chieftain and warlord because you have no bonus attackig and defending, just try new strategies :D

you don't HAVE to win before 1000AD for example, you can win as well by being in a tech-lead in 2100AD (game forces end there)

Start placing your capital where you start, and put both working tiles on forests.
-3 turns later you have your first warrior to explore and get huts and barbs with, and 2 turns after that, your second warrior's ready to to the same in other directions.
Now make a choice :-Seen a lot of barbarians and huts you can get to? : make another warrior
-Haven't/already done the above? : put the 2 tiles on grass (2 food each)

I think you may have a problem teching fast and keeping the tech lead?
-Try using Japan, with them you get 1 food per sea-tile, so you don't have to worry about science and growth :D
And research these techs first: Alphabet, Writing, Code of Laws.
Accept the Republic government (Some people don't do this, I don't know why....) and make a settler from every city you have (I know that the first time you force yourselves to go settle can be hard, because your population decreases, and thus your science).

I think you will have 2 cities : your Capital and the free 100-gold settler.
So you'll make 2 extra settlers.

Put them at spots where you think is good for a settler, but don't forget to give them escorts; have a warrior in the same tile as your settler at all times for example (settler has 2 movement, but you can take 1 step and stop as well).

Then once you have your 4 cities, grow them to at least 3 population each, and make 1 settler in each of your cities, and you'll have a harder time finding good spots to settle, and that's the crucial part for beginners : Island settling!

you may have gained a galley from a barbarian village, so load in your settlers, and go to the islands around.


You'll have 8 cities once this is done, and quite a tech-lead.
But most important : you'll have tried making more cities and have found out the advantages of island cities.

of course you'll be able to work from this starting 'strategy' and perfect it for yourself.
In no-time King will have become to easy for you.


before I forget it; the defenses!
-Most starters forget making units untill they get attacked (and it is to late), so while you may want to get more science by settling near water, use at least one settler to make a city with lots of production (forests, hills, ...).

Make at least one archer army in each city (your certain of 2 forests near your capital, so thats 4 production ; 3 turns for the 1st archer, 2 more for the second and a final 3 for the last one)


That's all I'm going to post here for now, you'll be able to win knowing this.
 
Then move up to King. Get thumped 'cause you don't have that attack / defense bonus anymore. Improve your explore, expand & build techniques. Go back and re-read the online manual. Play the Civs you haven't tried yet. Go for victories you haven't.

I just got Civ Rev and I've played a few games, but the game seems stupidly easy even on King. As bad as I may have been as a newbie managing culture, expansion, military, teching, growth, the AI is even worse.
 
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