Hello all,
I've seen a lot of games being played on monarch, emperor and deity difficulty levels, but to be honest I find it difficult sometimes to learn how to play the game well while on these difficulties mainly because I haven't learned how to play the game successfully even on Noble. I read strategy guides from other players but they are always too advanced for me and never detailed enough to give me a strong insight into what the players are doing.
I am thinking about starting a new series called Civ For Dummies, to help me and anyone else too embarrassed to ask for help beating low difficulties. I've played enough times that I feel pretty comfortable beating any Chieftain game, and probably any Warlord game. I might even get lucky with Noble games but I'm god awful at Civ apparently, and I have trouble with those sometimes.
Before making massive posts, I wanted to ask the people here on the forum if this kind of thing would be beneficial or even wanted. My agenda is as follows:
- Try for all the different victory types at one time or another
- Start with the easiest difficulties and ramp up
- Explain everything I'm doing in great detail, possibly even a turn by turn analysis for the parts where people can learn a lot
- Help other newbies like myself who may be lurking and too embarrassed to talk about these lowest difficulty levels
- Assume ZERO knowledge ahead of time, other than a basic gaming instinct (heh)
Also, I plan to use these settings:
Map Type: Pangaea
Climate: Temperate
Sea Level: Medium
World Size: Small
Shoreline: Random
Civilization: Random
Difficulty: Chieftain
Game Speed: Normal
So with that, I open myself to the wolves of Teh Interwebz. Web wolves, be merciful with your cyber-teeth to this lowly n00b of n00bs.
EDIT: Here is the thread link, posted in this since it's the first post. That way you don't have to scroll down to find it. The thread was recently moved to the strategies section. Link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=314428
I've seen a lot of games being played on monarch, emperor and deity difficulty levels, but to be honest I find it difficult sometimes to learn how to play the game well while on these difficulties mainly because I haven't learned how to play the game successfully even on Noble. I read strategy guides from other players but they are always too advanced for me and never detailed enough to give me a strong insight into what the players are doing.
I am thinking about starting a new series called Civ For Dummies, to help me and anyone else too embarrassed to ask for help beating low difficulties. I've played enough times that I feel pretty comfortable beating any Chieftain game, and probably any Warlord game. I might even get lucky with Noble games but I'm god awful at Civ apparently, and I have trouble with those sometimes.
Before making massive posts, I wanted to ask the people here on the forum if this kind of thing would be beneficial or even wanted. My agenda is as follows:
- Try for all the different victory types at one time or another
- Start with the easiest difficulties and ramp up
- Explain everything I'm doing in great detail, possibly even a turn by turn analysis for the parts where people can learn a lot
- Help other newbies like myself who may be lurking and too embarrassed to talk about these lowest difficulty levels
- Assume ZERO knowledge ahead of time, other than a basic gaming instinct (heh)
Also, I plan to use these settings:
Map Type: Pangaea
Climate: Temperate
Sea Level: Medium
World Size: Small
Shoreline: Random
Civilization: Random
Difficulty: Chieftain
Game Speed: Normal
So with that, I open myself to the wolves of Teh Interwebz. Web wolves, be merciful with your cyber-teeth to this lowly n00b of n00bs.
EDIT: Here is the thread link, posted in this since it's the first post. That way you don't have to scroll down to find it. The thread was recently moved to the strategies section. Link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=314428
) of the higher level players, whilst excellent can confuse and discourage the lower level players.
