Beginning on Deity

[Tiber4321]

I've just started experimenting on my first games at Deity. I need a bit of advice. I've been missing on Hagia Sofia about 2 out of every three games. I know one shouild beeline Theo ASAP, but I find I need a few basic techs to get my cities up and producing. Animal Husbandry, Trapping, Pottery, Mining and Masonry are some of these. You need to develop at least one lux and probably two to avoid following into unhappiness once you build a second city. Other AIs are consistantly finishing HS in the low 80s (turn wise).

Any advice on how to deal with this? Should I sign expensive RAs that early in the game? If you don't have some of these early techs, you can run out of things your workers can do, which is obviously not good..

 

[DaveMcW]

Other AIs are consistantly finishing HS in the low 80s (turn wise).

Play different map settings. Or just reroll until your bad luck ends.

 

[Tiber4321]

Is it just bad luck?? Or am I doing something wrong?

 

[The Pilgrim]

Still playing on quick? On standard it's not happening if your pace is reasonable. You can have bad luck once or twice, not all the time.

 

[Tiber4321]

No, I'm playing standard, and I've given up all hope of building HG at Deity. Maybe I need to pare down a few of those early techs? AIs may not be building HS in the 80s everytime, but in my last game it was built on 83-standard.

 

[Light Cleric]

That's just awful luck, the AI never pops it that early for me...the earliest I've seen it come recently was on turn 89 in an OOC game today

 

[Thresian]

HS by turn 100 is usually early enough IME. I would always take all the relevant lux techs before Theo, not so much to avoid unhappiness as to sell the luxes. If you miss HS, it's not the end of the world.