creamcheese
Spreading since 1990
I've been playing C3C for a while now, and I seem to have reached a point where I cannot move up in difficulty level without becoming extremely bored.
I used to play almost exclusively Regent level games because I considered them fair [you and the AI start the same and have the same production rates], but I soon realized I was winning every game and it was time to move up a level or two. Now I can confidently win every monarch level game I play and [barring a horrible start] about 80-90% of my Emperor games. I tried moving up to demi-god and deity, but I found that increasingly in order to win I had to do that parts of the game that I hate the most [MMing and worker management]. On the lower levels I vastly prefer to set the city governors on emphasize production and manage happiness. I usually can compensate for the slight inefficiencies and idiotic governors by superior play in other aspects of the game.
Is it possible to not MM your cities a lot on the higher difficulties and win handily? This is what bores me to death about the game, and I'd rather not have to check every city every turn to make sure it won't fall into disorder or to finish something without wasting shields. Workers I can, and kind of have to, live with; I discovered very quickly how worthless automation is.
Tips? Am I at the limits of my ability without becoming bored?
I used to play almost exclusively Regent level games because I considered them fair [you and the AI start the same and have the same production rates], but I soon realized I was winning every game and it was time to move up a level or two. Now I can confidently win every monarch level game I play and [barring a horrible start] about 80-90% of my Emperor games. I tried moving up to demi-god and deity, but I found that increasingly in order to win I had to do that parts of the game that I hate the most [MMing and worker management]. On the lower levels I vastly prefer to set the city governors on emphasize production and manage happiness. I usually can compensate for the slight inefficiencies and idiotic governors by superior play in other aspects of the game.
Is it possible to not MM your cities a lot on the higher difficulties and win handily? This is what bores me to death about the game, and I'd rather not have to check every city every turn to make sure it won't fall into disorder or to finish something without wasting shields. Workers I can, and kind of have to, live with; I discovered very quickly how worthless automation is.
Tips? Am I at the limits of my ability without becoming bored?