adcarrymaokai
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So after playing on Immortal and comfortably winning under 300 turns, I decided to turn to deity. I thought, I would pick an easy civ like Korea and turtle my way to science victory -- after all, I did not have much time or enough skill to pursue anything else on this level, and I wanted my first deity game to be not too difficult.
I picked a large map with 2 fewer AI's because I did not want to get into territorial disputes and wars with AI's -- I simply did not have time for that. I got a nice start, explored a lot, got 3 pop ruins, 2 faith CS's right off the bat and founded a pantheon around t-12. I could not steal workers because my every neighbor asked for a DoF quickly, but other than that things were going my way. Aggressively chopped NC before t-80 and quickly chopped Oracle right after. Science caravans rush-bought asap, cargo ships for internal food routes. Education around t-100, first university around t-110. My capital is size 24 at turn 150.
I thought I had this game. And then.... France decided to attack the Dutch, became the enemy of the entire world, and a world war against France began. The Ottomans AI, as I noticed, has a tendency to settle every bit of land, and being France's neighbor, not only did they have their settled territories, but city by city, they conquered the entire France and occupied a third of the continent. On t-140, Suleiman entered Industrial Era, and on t-154, he adopted an Ideology. On t-200, I was the first civ to buy his blue jeans -- which had never ever happened to me in games. On turn 210, Arabia casually sent their Great Prophet and converted my Holy City which removed my pantheon.
I thought to myself: ok, I can do this. Around t-230, I entered a second natural golden age and burnt 3 GA's to get a 30+ turns golden age. Then I saw that even with a factory, it would take me 29 turns to produce the Stasis Chamber in my most productive expo -- you know, those plains cities do not exactly have the highest production -- and by t-230, Suleiman had already added 3 parts to his spaceship. My culture was pitiful with only monuments from Tradition, occasional amphitheaters, and some guilds. My production sucked (most of the game I was pretty much building and chopping science buildings). Meanwhile Suleiman was 10 techs and 35 cities ahead. It was time to retire.
Still not sure if that's how a typical deity game is or I just happened to witness a great AI runaway. Also, that rude conversion of my holy city. What a douche.
I picked a large map with 2 fewer AI's because I did not want to get into territorial disputes and wars with AI's -- I simply did not have time for that. I got a nice start, explored a lot, got 3 pop ruins, 2 faith CS's right off the bat and founded a pantheon around t-12. I could not steal workers because my every neighbor asked for a DoF quickly, but other than that things were going my way. Aggressively chopped NC before t-80 and quickly chopped Oracle right after. Science caravans rush-bought asap, cargo ships for internal food routes. Education around t-100, first university around t-110. My capital is size 24 at turn 150.
I thought I had this game. And then.... France decided to attack the Dutch, became the enemy of the entire world, and a world war against France began. The Ottomans AI, as I noticed, has a tendency to settle every bit of land, and being France's neighbor, not only did they have their settled territories, but city by city, they conquered the entire France and occupied a third of the continent. On t-140, Suleiman entered Industrial Era, and on t-154, he adopted an Ideology. On t-200, I was the first civ to buy his blue jeans -- which had never ever happened to me in games. On turn 210, Arabia casually sent their Great Prophet and converted my Holy City which removed my pantheon.
I thought to myself: ok, I can do this. Around t-230, I entered a second natural golden age and burnt 3 GA's to get a 30+ turns golden age. Then I saw that even with a factory, it would take me 29 turns to produce the Stasis Chamber in my most productive expo -- you know, those plains cities do not exactly have the highest production -- and by t-230, Suleiman had already added 3 parts to his spaceship. My culture was pitiful with only monuments from Tradition, occasional amphitheaters, and some guilds. My production sucked (most of the game I was pretty much building and chopping science buildings). Meanwhile Suleiman was 10 techs and 35 cities ahead. It was time to retire.
Still not sure if that's how a typical deity game is or I just happened to witness a great AI runaway. Also, that rude conversion of my holy city. What a douche.
Easy Deity win?
