Diety Level is Freaking Hard

[Lrd Dread]

Never seriously tried a game at diety. My god this is hard.
Turn 152 everyone is in medieval era but me

 

[Gilgamesch]

Never seriously tried a game at diety. My god this is hard.
Turn 152 everyone is in medieval era but me

The biggest problem on deity is the **** ai bonus.
Really the ai doesnt fight or act better, all what deity do is give the ai boni in all areas.
In my own Mod, i changed deity in a few ways. The ai will start with 3 settlers a lot of units and even more boni, but i removed the free techs, instead each player start with a free tech. The result is the ai is still better in the most cases of the game but you still can get your way. ok i play this only with marathon (altered).
In my current games the ai is normally on the same tech level as iam.

 

[Gilgamesch]

The next version will include a overworked ai level system.
This means deaty will be renamed to decimatus and the ai will start with 3 settlers and units.
Also a overworked flavor system, so deity means it.
But the a.i will no longer get any free technologies at the start. Instead the building of the palace will grand a free technology for each civ.
Also the barbarians wil get a +25 bonus against fighting civs, on each level above prince.

 

[Canabrava]

For me the problem is not the bonus. I always play agains 7 AI and all games one AI is so better than others AI and always wins by culture or science.

 

[Gilgamesch]

For me the problem is not the bonus. I always play agains 7 AI and all games one AI is so better than others AI and always wins by culture or science.

Yeah bonus is a big bug in civ, thanks firaxis...