Finally won on deity after struggling with it for a week. Heres how I did it. Sorry its long.
1. Build warriors until you get to about three, explore and get money from barbarians
2. Once you get three warriors then switch to all science and research alphabet first.
3. Once you get alphabet then switch your city to balanced and build a library. Research writing next then code of laws
4. Hopefully by this time you have 100 gold to get a settler, find a spot with at least a 2food and 2production and make sure its as close to your capital as you can get it
5. Once you have two cities then rush the libraries in both cities with gold or production whatever you need to do.
6. Keep exploring with the warriors until you get to dead ends either map wise or other civ wise pull back the warriors to defend your two cities once they have reached dead ends.
7. Once you reach code of laws switch to republic govt. and switch the cities to high production and build settlers. go for democracy next then university.
8. settlers now only cost one so its easier to expand, this part is up to you as to how many cities you want. Personally I like to keep it small with maybe 3 to 5 cities.
9. Once you have your cities choose the one that is in the most crucial area such as very near another civ or maybe its your bottleneck city. With that city switch to balanced and all the rest keep on production.
10. This is the priority for building on your main city
a.libraries, universities
b.courthouse, city walls, tile upgrading buildings
c. temple, cathedrals(cultural vic) market, bank(economic)
11. All the other cities will only produce settlers and be at high production. Try to rush settlers as well with whatever gold you have, Send the settlers to the main city and join it to population pump that city.
12. Once you have university tech then go straight for industrialization then mass production, it will be a while.
13. Once you have the main city at 25 population which will happen pretty quickly depending on how many cities you have population pumping it, move on to pop pump another city and repeat steps for building in that city.
14. Once you have industrialization, make building factories a priority in your main city or cities. Once you have factories you should also have mass production finished so build infantry armies to protect all your cities. Next I would go for automobile to build artillery for attack first defense, but if you are going for domination victory build alot of these artillery and a few battleships.
15. At this point you have probably one huge city that can produce pretty much anything very quickly, one medium size city, and one tiny city. I believe you have to tools to win any victory from this point.
Other civs will try to get things from you and you should react differently depending on what victory you want to achieve. ie.. if you want economic victory try to give them tech instead or great persons. The way I negotiate is that if they want something I usually will refuse unless they have high movement troops right next to my city which means that they will attack pretty much right after you refuse. After I refuse I go back to talk to them and most of the time different options are available so try to get the option that least hurts your type of planned victory. Some times they actually back off if you refuse the first time, you would be surprised. Once you have your defesnes set up with infantry and artillery I would refuse anything that got in the way of the victory I wanted.
These are tips for every victory that you should follow after you got your defenses up.
Domination: Use caravans to find capitals that you didnt find in the beginning or research flight to get fighters to find capitals not on your island. Once you find all the capitals you can pretty much stack up on artillery and infantry together to take down the capitals. I use a 1 to 5 ratio of 1 infantry to 5 artillery, I would send two of these groups to each capital. go after the capitals that are closest to winning first. Make sure your big and med city have factories at this point so that you can rush armies.
Technology: After you have infantry in all your cities and a few artillery for defense just switch to science and democracy govt. Go for space flight and build a space ship
Economic: After your defense is set switch to democracy and rush to networking tech and build internet. make sure that your cities have market and bank, by this time you might already have them. Once you get internet done then switch to all gold and then build world bank. give civs anything else but gold to stop them from going to war with you. If war is inevitable you can withstand it.
Culture: For this one I would build magna carta once I got democracy. once your defense is set up I would build spy rings to steal other great people from other civs. Build temples, cathedrals, and wonders. Protect your great people because you can withstand any war thrown at you at this point.
For any victory, attack any civ that looks like its going to win before you do. go after their largest city if they are winning tech or economic. Use spy rings if they are going to win cultural, remember to defend the spy rings with infantry every step. Thats pretty much it, sorry for the length.
1. Build warriors until you get to about three, explore and get money from barbarians
2. Once you get three warriors then switch to all science and research alphabet first.
3. Once you get alphabet then switch your city to balanced and build a library. Research writing next then code of laws
4. Hopefully by this time you have 100 gold to get a settler, find a spot with at least a 2food and 2production and make sure its as close to your capital as you can get it
5. Once you have two cities then rush the libraries in both cities with gold or production whatever you need to do.
6. Keep exploring with the warriors until you get to dead ends either map wise or other civ wise pull back the warriors to defend your two cities once they have reached dead ends.
7. Once you reach code of laws switch to republic govt. and switch the cities to high production and build settlers. go for democracy next then university.
8. settlers now only cost one so its easier to expand, this part is up to you as to how many cities you want. Personally I like to keep it small with maybe 3 to 5 cities.
9. Once you have your cities choose the one that is in the most crucial area such as very near another civ or maybe its your bottleneck city. With that city switch to balanced and all the rest keep on production.
10. This is the priority for building on your main city
a.libraries, universities
b.courthouse, city walls, tile upgrading buildings
c. temple, cathedrals(cultural vic) market, bank(economic)
11. All the other cities will only produce settlers and be at high production. Try to rush settlers as well with whatever gold you have, Send the settlers to the main city and join it to population pump that city.
12. Once you have university tech then go straight for industrialization then mass production, it will be a while.
13. Once you have the main city at 25 population which will happen pretty quickly depending on how many cities you have population pumping it, move on to pop pump another city and repeat steps for building in that city.
14. Once you have industrialization, make building factories a priority in your main city or cities. Once you have factories you should also have mass production finished so build infantry armies to protect all your cities. Next I would go for automobile to build artillery for attack first defense, but if you are going for domination victory build alot of these artillery and a few battleships.
15. At this point you have probably one huge city that can produce pretty much anything very quickly, one medium size city, and one tiny city. I believe you have to tools to win any victory from this point.
Other civs will try to get things from you and you should react differently depending on what victory you want to achieve. ie.. if you want economic victory try to give them tech instead or great persons. The way I negotiate is that if they want something I usually will refuse unless they have high movement troops right next to my city which means that they will attack pretty much right after you refuse. After I refuse I go back to talk to them and most of the time different options are available so try to get the option that least hurts your type of planned victory. Some times they actually back off if you refuse the first time, you would be surprised. Once you have your defesnes set up with infantry and artillery I would refuse anything that got in the way of the victory I wanted.
These are tips for every victory that you should follow after you got your defenses up.
Domination: Use caravans to find capitals that you didnt find in the beginning or research flight to get fighters to find capitals not on your island. Once you find all the capitals you can pretty much stack up on artillery and infantry together to take down the capitals. I use a 1 to 5 ratio of 1 infantry to 5 artillery, I would send two of these groups to each capital. go after the capitals that are closest to winning first. Make sure your big and med city have factories at this point so that you can rush armies.
Technology: After you have infantry in all your cities and a few artillery for defense just switch to science and democracy govt. Go for space flight and build a space ship
Economic: After your defense is set switch to democracy and rush to networking tech and build internet. make sure that your cities have market and bank, by this time you might already have them. Once you get internet done then switch to all gold and then build world bank. give civs anything else but gold to stop them from going to war with you. If war is inevitable you can withstand it.
Culture: For this one I would build magna carta once I got democracy. once your defense is set up I would build spy rings to steal other great people from other civs. Build temples, cathedrals, and wonders. Protect your great people because you can withstand any war thrown at you at this point.
For any victory, attack any civ that looks like its going to win before you do. go after their largest city if they are winning tech or economic. Use spy rings if they are going to win cultural, remember to defend the spy rings with infantry every step. Thats pretty much it, sorry for the length.