That's for my COMMENTS count on the forum, lol. I have 2k+ (you can see this on the left:
MESSAGES: 2213), so the site bot names me accordingly.
On the other hand, I always use precisely TWO game difficulties and precisely TWO game speeds: MIN and MAX.
Any and all of my games that I've ever played on C2C (as far as I remember) were ALWAYS combinations of either of Eternity/Ultrafast and either of Settler/Nightmare - and NOTHING ELSE.
LOOOL!!!
And... well, it's quite possible (or WAS possible) to win a Nightmare game (even without Natural Wonders in vicinity) - though it's HARD, indeed.
Probably helps having Barbs for "hammer fodder", lol.
But this has recently (like, last year) made way too annoying due to the turn lag that... kills the FUN of the actual game, let's be honest.
This has nothing to do with difficulty - it just turns the gaming PROCESS into a long and boring WAITING CHORE... which I'm clearly way too tired of already, so I stopped even trying.
But I've HAD won (so to speak, in practice it means "clearly dominated the local map") a MAX difficulty game in the past, that's a FACT.
In fact, HERE's an old save of me doing PRECISELY THAT:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...el-personal-modmod-edit.678800/#post-16333257
I suggest checking out the entire thread, though I linked to the post that proves the concept.
Enjoy and do even better yourself, loool!