I do not get it. I can be beat the computer on Emperor pretty consistently and yet, I cannot beat Deity. What really bothers me is that AI can do everything so much faster and yet I cannot keep up no matter how hard I try despite having watched hours and hours of videos on Youtube. I do not mind the AI starting out with more cities and units but is there anyway to slow it down on research, putting up walls and cranking out units cavalry while I barely have Knights and a few cities out?
It is super frustrating. I am not dumb. I have a PhD and consider myself reasonably smart. But I am starting to get the suspicion that people beating Deity fake it. They say they beat Deity but in reality, they make it look as if they did. I tell you why I think this: because the game play on Youtube looks nothing like what I experience with units flying around.
One time I lost in 50 turns by way of religion with a handful of cities to my name. And what is the deal with barbarians being able to produce better units in less time? Like the WTF? There is no chance that people are winning on deity when barbs have horsemen and you are still stuck with warriors and archers. If you cannot beat barbs, how can you beat 'regular' civs? By the time, I get anywhere near reasonable units to defend myself, it is all over, and yet I see people rushing the AI with warriors and archers and winning -- WTF? How is this possible when city states and regular civs have walls by like turn 10?
Yes, it is all about production, getting science boosts, cranking out settlers and promoting / upgrading units, but it is like everything from research to production slows down to the point where it feels like that the game is not just deliberately favouring the AI but also undermining everything I do.
Screw this game and the town from where it came!!!!
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