Civ to play, and how to select opponents

[DaveShack]

Evidently not...

Two polls opened.
Civ to play
Opponents

 

[dutchfire]

I think we should think closer about using a short list. Do we have an idea of how we want to play this game, what victory type we want to shoot for?

That depends on a lot of things. You can plan to be peaceful and shoot for diplo, but when you meet Alexander and Monty on your continent, that plan fails.

 

[ice2k4]

That depends on a lot of things. You can plan to be peaceful and shoot for diplo, but when you meet Alexander and Monty on your continent, that plan fails.

Not necessarily, as long as you have the will for it, you can play any game diplomatically. I played a game with Caesar, Catherine and Alex on my continent, and Mansa, Ghandi (and someone else pretty unimportant) and won a diplo victory. It just takes a lot of bribing and gifting, but in the end it's quite easy coming out on top.

 

[Tullius]

Let's go with random everything because otherwise we're all going to argue until we croak.

 

[Furius]

Random everything definitly seems to be the trend for opponents.... For our own civ random is also the leading option, but the short list option is not really very far behind...

So I think the opponent decision is pretty clear