Hardest difficulty you have beaten the game on!

[Briquette]

Sorry Giaur, but IMO reloads are NEVER acceptable.

If you forget to do something, then that's a lesson learned and you won't forget next time. If someone surprised you in an attack, tough luck.

I've played Civ since version II first came out. And yes, I was suckered into reloads too, but I have long since given them up and can't say I miss them in the least. I'll never win Diety, or likely even Immortal, but I'd rather not win that way.

Random civ selections, no reloads. If I never get beyond Monarch I'll be happy anyway. I'll try a Diety game and see how many turns I can last. You can try a Prince or Monarch game without a single reload.

This may sound arguementative but that's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to let people know that there are a great many players who play to adapt to situations rather than controlling the game. Try some games as random civs without reloads and perhaps you'll find you enjoy the game even more.

 

[SpikeSpy]

Just finished Diety, Huge, 6 AI, WITHOUT ANARCHY EXPLOIT, Domination finish date 1126 using Caesar. Went up against Tokugawa, Napoleon, Mao, Huyana, Peter, Mongolians. Killed them in that order exept for Peter & Mongols, they remained pleased throughout the game and shared my religion.
Needless to say, no cheating and no reloads.

 

[Giaur]

Briquette

I agree that there are many very good players who play lower levels without reloading. I once tried this way. But I was furious that people admire those who win using tricks and bugs to help themselves. Then I adopted their way and gave them a lesson, once. Multiplayer games show who is really good ...
The second immportant thing. Sad but true. People don't like loosing, so watching enemy took your cities is very difficult to accept. I wish it won't be that. I lost few games in Civ4, one on Monarch, twice on Deity and one on Immortal. But there was no joy, only sorrow.

SpikeSpy

Impressive. I see you chose the right nation :]

All

I see that some of you don't like reloads so I try to adopt this place. Deity again. Wish me luck. But no Romans this time

 

[generalpatton]

monarch won twice. tried immortal, got eaten alive. Diety, lets not go there...

 

[Koelle]

Monarch, Roosevelt, Huge, 18 Civs, Epic, but only Space Race Victory My first Monarch attemp

 

[ungy]

I win some and lose some at emperor.

I have won a few deity duels--one cultural and one rush which I found trivial.
So the settings make a BIG difference.

 

[Rast]

I've beaten Noble a few times now, got my ass handed to me on Prince a couple of times, but I finally seem to have gotten the hang of chop-rushing and cottage spamming and am doing pretty good in my current game, though it has quite a ways to go still (go go Marathon setting!)

 

[Giaur]

Deity, 262k VP, 6 AIs, Huge map size, using Romans, 1152 AD, No Barbs and no cheating. And what is most important: No reloads. Will leave savegame soon, but now there is no possibility (server crash).

Next step: Tokugawa, 10 AIs

Still learning and hope game won't make me bored too soon ...

 

[mutax2003]

Spikespy, care to share with us how you won your huge map deity game? How would you alter your approach for standard sized map for non-Rome Civs?

 

[Giaur]

As promised: my Rome game is over here ...

http://free.of.pl/k/kwalo/Rome.Civ4SavedGame

... runs over patch 1.52

 

[Kalleyao]

Deity, but that was duel inca.

 

[Shadowsong]

Hardest difficulty I've won is Deity. You can see my games in HoF.

 

[Giaur]

Hardest difficulty I've won is Deity. You can see my games in HoF.

Your games are encrypted ...
2006.04.19: ok, no fine. Opened by 1.61v. That's what I call an agressive game. 2,5 hours ... unbeliveble time. However I won't take part in this competition. Requires to much time in reallife and second: destroys the beauty of the game.

P.S. There should be a topic for each difficulty level. There would be less jealousy and sick competition and one could proudly step into higher difficulty cantine (for while or for long) ...

 

[Giaur]

Don't be scared. No new results ;p

Now should be banned for offtopic and writing two posts one after other.

... perhaps for swearing (almost) in another topic ... :]

 

[The-Hawk]

I have been playing the settler level at least once a week, but I haven’t yet finished a game on that level.

You trying settler in between all of those deity games?

I've won on deity (standard map size) without reloads or anarchy exploit, playing Caesar and with a good start position. I certainly don't claim to be able to win at this level with random civs and start positions...

@SpikeSpy: Deity, Huge map?

 

[Archbob]

Whats the hardest difficulty you've won on huge?

 

[Kalleyao]

That's what I call an agressive game. 2,5 hours ... unbeliveble time. However I won't take part in this competition. Requires to much time in reallife and second: destroys the beauty of the game.

Shadowsong is a very fast real time player! 2 minutes 6 seconds for a Deity win!!!

 

[Giaur]

Spikespy seems to be the hero here. When was setting my own game, I looked over his results and knew that it would be difficult to beat him. At least my results aren't worse. Maybe should wait till he appears and try similar game. A pity he hasn't writen any post for a month.

 

[Shadowsong]

Whats the hardest difficulty you've won on huge?

Deity domination, patch 1.52 . But it wasn't a HoF valid game , I had less number of AIs than required.

Shadowsong is a very fast real time player! 2 minutes 6 seconds for a Deity win!!!

Yeah, that was my fastest game ever , I can show you how it's done if you're interested but you've probably already figured it...

 

[Kalleyao]

Yeah, that was my fastest game ever , I can show you how it's done if you're interested but you've probably already figured it...

Yes, I figured the strategy you used, very clever! First I wondered how you won with one battle when AI had two archers ...