Do you choose or put random

[Richard Cribb]

I randomize everything, and yes indeed; it sometimes add to the challenge.
Like my present emperor game, where I am Egypt on an archipelago map with seemingly 80% water and two of the rival civs are Vikings and Dutch...

 

[ComradeDavo]

I normally go for random civs, though sometimes I get fed up of certain civs ('oh great the Aztecs have declared war on me yet again....' kinda thing) thus choose my oppenants.

Maps I always specify.

 

[the_corvos]

I go with random, too, except, like luceafarul said, when I want an extra challenge.

 

[citizen001]

Random civs, custom everything else

 

[sorky]

I choose and try to mix opponent (no scientific trait..) so I have 1 or 2 techs that any other have. It could be 1 or 2 trades early (usually to have potery if I don't ^^)

Anyway, at emperor level or less, I used to let random everywhere: my civ, opponents, world, barb..etc

 

[Herrs]

I thinks theres a bug when you play random: you always get civs from the american continent (Americans, Mayan, Iraquious etc). I think this is in a thread somewere to.

Its to bad because I like the Idea of not nowing wich opponents your going to face.

 

[mikezang]

You can uncheck Culturally Linked Start Loc, so this bug will be modified.

 

[mikehunt]

normally random for enemies, but I select the planet type and my civ
although I did sort of cheat in my current game. earth map for RAR and I made myself america and selected my opponents choosing civs that would not be in north or south america

 

[genghis_khev]

I choose the world settings and my own civ but randomise my targets, er, AI civs.

I figure tailoring the world to my civ (lots of desert for agri civs, lots of water for sea civs, etc.) counters the AI's "unfortified obsolete unit on grassland +1000% defence bonus!

 

[Fanatica]

I almost never choose random. I prefer to play against the stronger civs and keep the wimps from bogging down game play.

 

[Knowltok]

I tend to pick a few, and random the rest. If I'm playing as Germany, I want a France and Russia in the game. If I'm the US, I want Russians in the game. Romans need Cartaginians. That kind of thing.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I usually play random, unless I want to see one civ I haven't seen in a long while.

 

[rainmaker]

Just started playing random civ opponents. Next game will also use random for myself. I find it's just to frustrating trying to select who I want to be and who I want to play against. In the end I don't think I matters much and I will get experience playing civs I have so far avoided.

rainmaker

 

[fe3333au]

Random Civs ... Huge Maps ... Barbs on max agression

 

[Drakan]

all random

 

[moondoggi]

I normaly use all random including my civ. But after reading this thread it occured to me that it might be fun to pick the civ I just played as an opponent. Think I will do that from now on.
Know your enemys.

 

[fe3333au]

I randomize the terrain, climate, age ... but usually pick landmass ... as I like to play an island hopping campaign ... but other times pangea when i go crazy wonder building ...

OT ... Like the avitar moondoggi

 

[CTM]

Hmm...funny. I've always picked my opponents. I like to know who I'm up against, usually. You can say it's more of a challenge otherwise, but that's really how I've always played the game, ever since I first played the original Civilization back in 1993.

For me, I tend to choose first, randomize later. When I became a hardcore Civilization 2 veteran to the point where I could play on Deity and win every time I played, I started randomizing, just because it had become too easy (though it really didn't make much of a difference anyway by that point). The only real difference between civilizations were their aggressiveness and tech preferences, and for an expert like me it didn't make a difference.

Heh, then I play CivIII for the first time on Regent and I get my butt kicked. It wasn't until PTW came out that I advanced to Monarch and then to Emperor. Just recently I've advanced to Demigod (and I'll have to admit this site was sort of the catalyst that brought that about).

 

[Eetu Pellonpää]

In normal game I use random opponents, but sometimes I may have fun with some selections to make a kind of theme to the game.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Almost always random, except for world size and barbarians.