Hi! When it comes to CivIV, I am basically a noob. See, I bought the game when it came out, but I took a really long break from it until after BtS came out, so I picked up a copy of BtS, and now I'm really into Civ again. But unfortunately I'm really out of the loop when it comes to how to be good at the game and recognizing when to use certain stragies and tricks because I quit visiting and reading the forums for a long time also. So, for the past two weeks or so, I've been working on Deity games on standard sized pangaeas. I'm almost to the point where I can keep up with the AI in tech, but it requires using a limited strategy that I read in Unconquered Sun's game, and I don't think it is very well suited for a game like the one's I've been playing where there is not alot of time or room to expand like he did in the beginning. I've also found that it is completely ineffective to run a CE in the beginning, but I have been unable to figure out how to use a FE to be able to produce enough units to possibly attack a neighbor, and produce enough Great Scientists to keep up in tech. Basically it seems that once you start using a food economy to produce GSs, you can't stop or else that's it, you may as well quit.
So that is where I'm stuck. What I want to do is play a game and post about it in this thread (posting a new update maybe every 10-20 turns or so), and get your feedback on what I've done wrong, or about what to do next. Maybe we can all learn something!
I'm going to start a game with a random Civ (I don't like picking the Civ because I basically think it makes it too easy to determine the strategy you are going to use), a standard sized Pangaea with all random rivals, and of course Deity difficulty. I'm going to take the first start I get, and that will be my (our) game.
So here we go, here is our start (we drew the Mayans):
Expansive and financial, starting with mysticism and mining. Well, my noob analysis of this start is telling me to move the warrior 1E, settle in place if nothing really good comes up (I don't think there is anything that could be better than two fish anyway), go directly to bronzeworking for slavery. But there is a problem with this because there are two workable fish tiles if we settle in place, and going for bronzeworking first will delay being able to build work boats. Since there's no point in having slavery before having alot of workable food, I would want to research fishing first. So many things to think about, I swear this is the deepest computer game I have ever played.
I'm going to play twenty turns right now and then update, and let the negative feedback roll in
(who knows, maybe I'm just being hard on myself).
So that is where I'm stuck. What I want to do is play a game and post about it in this thread (posting a new update maybe every 10-20 turns or so), and get your feedback on what I've done wrong, or about what to do next. Maybe we can all learn something!
I'm going to start a game with a random Civ (I don't like picking the Civ because I basically think it makes it too easy to determine the strategy you are going to use), a standard sized Pangaea with all random rivals, and of course Deity difficulty. I'm going to take the first start I get, and that will be my (our) game.
So here we go, here is our start (we drew the Mayans):
Expansive and financial, starting with mysticism and mining. Well, my noob analysis of this start is telling me to move the warrior 1E, settle in place if nothing really good comes up (I don't think there is anything that could be better than two fish anyway), go directly to bronzeworking for slavery. But there is a problem with this because there are two workable fish tiles if we settle in place, and going for bronzeworking first will delay being able to build work boats. Since there's no point in having slavery before having alot of workable food, I would want to research fishing first. So many things to think about, I swear this is the deepest computer game I have ever played.
I'm going to play twenty turns right now and then update, and let the negative feedback roll in
(who knows, maybe I'm just being hard on myself).
