Level, harder than Deity is available.

It is possible to play on the level harder, than Deity.

Open Game.txt

Find that:

@DIFFICULTY
@width=320
@title=Select Difficulty Level
@options
Chieftain (easiest)
Warlord
Prince
King
Emperor
Deity (toughest)

Add 6 strings(doesn't matter what the name of each). For example:

@DIFFICULTY
@width=320
@title=Select Difficulty Level
@options
Chieftain (easiest)
Warlord
Prince
King
Emperor
Deity (toughest)
Deity 2
Deity 3
Deity 4
Deity 5
Deity 6

Close file, save it.

In the game choose Deity 6 level. And play

You will see the difference.

The difference:

- on Deity level you can save your city from unhappy people by building warriors
- On Deity 6 level City with LEVEL 1 (ONE) after some turns get unhappy person! The only person in the city is unhappy And it happens after FIVE turns! And freshely built warrior doesn't save. Another one - also. And third you can't usually build, because lack of production(you have to make entertainer)
And if you make your city level 2 - you will get one red unhappy person and one black unhappy person

- On Deity level the first Wonder AI Civ builds in 800 BC
- On Deity 6 level the first Wonder AI Civ builds in 1900 BC (sometimes it was 2800 BC)

On the next message I will upload 2 files, where you can compare, how does world and the best civilizations in it look like up to 1 AD.

The only bad thing here - you can't save and load that games... But may be this will be fixed.

The first file - 1 AD on Deity Level(the best civ by that time)

The second file - 1 AD on Deity 6 Level(the best civ by that time)

I can say, that playing that level you have no choice, but become a genius in micromanagement

The first citizen in next founded city becomes black

Sioux came:

- Give us Code of Laws
(I gave)
- Lets make peace!
(I agree)
(I propose - "Lets make an alliance")
- Lets make!
(I propose - "Share Maps")
- No
(I say - "Request a gift from you, our gracious allies")
- We give you our Pottery.


Next turn I contact them:
- We will have no more of this tiresome alliance! Begone from our territory at once!

Next turn I contact them:
- We are tired of your vile provocations! Prepare for WAR!

Every next turn I contact them:
- We have decided to rid the world of your worthless civilization. Prepare for WAR!

Lesson - make alliances, but don't contact them

They have Economics(start Adam Smith Trading Co.) in AD 20!

And that's how it's ended (1 Phalanx in each city)

Each level above King the AI civs get production and research "cheats" - their production and beaker boxes get narrower. Take your Deity(+0) game, go into Cheat Mode, and send check out the City Screen for one of the AI civs. Compare that to one from your Deity+6 game. I don't remember exactly, but I think the rows of production get one shield narrower for each level above King? (Emperor=9, Deity=8, D+1=7...?)

i've started games on deity +1 before. they seem to be playable enough and they are savable. i've heard high level deity + games are prone to crashing.

Great. I will test that with my ToT version.

In fact this level(Deity +6) is very interesting. And for those who thought before that Civ2 is very easy, it will make change their minds

You can save and load with Civ2 FW (and probably Civ2 calssic but I don't play it.)

It was told that Deity+6 (maybe you mean Deity 6 = Deity + 5) doesn't work or there are some problems. BTW under Deity+5 the shield box is only 2 columns wide so this is a narrower box that may cause problems.

Similarly you can add Barbs (I don't know how many levels).
@BARBARITY
@width=320
@title=Select Level Of Barbarian Activity
@button=Random
@default=2
@options
Villages Only
Roving Bands
Restless Tribes
Raging Hordes
Barbarian Wrath


And you can change the happiness in rules.txt, for example to play Deity+5 with a Deity happiness:
12 ; City size for first unhappiness at Chieftain level
24 ; Riot factor based on # cities (higher factor lessens the effect)

In fact, Deity+6 level is not the hardest. There are WAY more difficult ones

To learn about how to play at the Deity+n levels, you might consider reading some of the many Succession games that we played at those levels.
I think we learned a lot about those higher levels over the couse of playing those games, particularly regarding the early going. Of course, because it's a succession game you have to deal with different people occasionally changing strategy mid-stream and bad attempts (at least from me) at creative writing to go along with the games.

The first (I think) D+1 Succession game (Americans July-Aug '02)
Second D+1 game (Vikings Mar-May '03) This is where I joined the fun.
Moving up to D+2 (China May-Oct '03)
D+3 (Japan Nov '03-Feb '04)
D+3 (France Feb-Oct '04) This was on a map that was picked because it looked like more of a challenge.

Most, if not all, were played with "Barbarian Wrath" as well.

And what about the highest possible? Has anybody played succession games on it(it is Deity+256 or Deity+16 millions - I don't know exactly)?

There is one bad thing about those succession stories - they are for Classic Civ2. They absolutely don't work with MGE, 'cause AIs there don't give you technology every turn and want to cancel alliance each contact.