Zolika Toth
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2018
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- 79
20 techs behind is no reason to assume the worst. But if you are unable to keep up in power, then yes I would say you are in trouble.
The best difficulty is the one where neither you nor the AI walks all over the other. The AI needs a tech lead to achieve this, because, tbh, it is so dumb.
Can you gauge what the relative power situation is?
The other thing to mention is, we (limited data admittedly) have noticed that the tech lead starts to be whittled back at some stage. From nearly 2 eras behind, you can get back to half an era behind by the end of Modern. If you never get this far behind, you may catch up in Industrial or maybe much earlier.
Well, i am on a middle-sized island, and i had there the Tupis only, who were exterminated by the Neandertal barbarians, who were later exterminated by me

So i dont have any contacts with other civilizations yet, and my ships can sail only at the coast. So probably they will get to me first, when they will be able to build caravels.