obsolete
Deity
SSE / EE
The Espionage Economy (Something Different)
Since no one needs to see PROOFS of the SSE/WE anymore, I decided to try something different. Time for the Espionage Economy. In my recent games Ive had an opportunity to explore this more, though its been used mostly as a hybrid.
However, I decided to try a 100% full forced EE from the start. Of course it cant technically be 100% early because you MUST research to alphabet somehow in order to get that first Spy unit before you can get going, so that will be our starting point when science spending research drops to 0 on the slider and we wont touch it ever again.
The EE has been mentioned a few times, but there hasnt been much interest so far that I can see. I suspect this is primarily due to it requiring much more understanding/intuition than a cottage spamming spree. And I suppose an extremely heavy EE will only be used by a very small portion of players still in the future.
In any case, I tested the SSE/EE quite a few times on Deity level in the recent past. Unfortunately this strategy falls apart on that level, primarily because it is a system which actually is only geared to win second place. And as we know, winning second place is no win at all. And sadly, I seem to constantly only hit second place on Deity with it too.
Now lets be honest, ALL strategies break down on Deity. There simply is no winning method for that level, because the AI bonuses are so ridiculous that even God himself could never win more than half the time. But you would think I could have got LUCKY to catch a win here or there. But no, this EE turns out to be quite terrible there, more so than any other decent strategy that I know of.
However, for this game here, I decided to drop down to Immortal, and then play out through the end. Here it actually works pretty fine. There is enough lee-way that you can pin down who ever is in first place. Though I have to admit that all the Deity playing has really helped me to fix some of my poor miromanagement leaks, which also helped a little.
I will be gone for most of next week, but for now Ill just include this preview shot for what is to come
The Espionage Economy (Something Different)
Since no one needs to see PROOFS of the SSE/WE anymore, I decided to try something different. Time for the Espionage Economy. In my recent games Ive had an opportunity to explore this more, though its been used mostly as a hybrid.
However, I decided to try a 100% full forced EE from the start. Of course it cant technically be 100% early because you MUST research to alphabet somehow in order to get that first Spy unit before you can get going, so that will be our starting point when science spending research drops to 0 on the slider and we wont touch it ever again.
The EE has been mentioned a few times, but there hasnt been much interest so far that I can see. I suspect this is primarily due to it requiring much more understanding/intuition than a cottage spamming spree. And I suppose an extremely heavy EE will only be used by a very small portion of players still in the future.
In any case, I tested the SSE/EE quite a few times on Deity level in the recent past. Unfortunately this strategy falls apart on that level, primarily because it is a system which actually is only geared to win second place. And as we know, winning second place is no win at all. And sadly, I seem to constantly only hit second place on Deity with it too.
Now lets be honest, ALL strategies break down on Deity. There simply is no winning method for that level, because the AI bonuses are so ridiculous that even God himself could never win more than half the time. But you would think I could have got LUCKY to catch a win here or there. But no, this EE turns out to be quite terrible there, more so than any other decent strategy that I know of.
However, for this game here, I decided to drop down to Immortal, and then play out through the end. Here it actually works pretty fine. There is enough lee-way that you can pin down who ever is in first place. Though I have to admit that all the Deity playing has really helped me to fix some of my poor miromanagement leaks, which also helped a little.
I will be gone for most of next week, but for now Ill just include this preview shot for what is to come
Spoiler :
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. It was my second monarch win ever, and is still #2 on my all time top score list. Yes, I got lucky.
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