How long did it take you to beat emporer?

[GrandMatt]

I finally beat emporer, it was a huge step up from monarch i reckon

I won a diplo on a large map, easily could have been a conquest as i only had 1 rival left, i was the romans, so with powerful UU i had an early advantage but not for long

this also was first diplo win

Anyway my q to you guys is how long did it take you to be able to beat emporer hardness?

Took me 6 ish months

 

[The Lardossen]

I stepped up quickly to Monarch, starting to regularly win within two weeks. After that, I started to play Emperor and got my butt handed over. Then I started to read these forums again (stepped away from it to develop my own playing style first).

After that I quickly won my first Emperor game.

Though I still lose most of my Emperor games after all this time, it's a long way before I'll be comfortable to up the difficulty once more.

Too much luck is involved to win, like AND having copper AND having a really good position AND having the right civs around me AND box in some AI's.

 

[Older than Dirt]

If Emperor is any worse than Monarch, I'd rather have a colonoscopy, thank you very much.

 

[Armorydave]

I haven't even tried yet. Monarch is just right for me. Anything more would suck the fun out of the experience.

 

[jar2574]

I have beaten emperor, but I prefer monarch. With monarch I can relax and have fun.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I haven't gotten past Noble yet...

 

[Oggums]

Technically, I beat Emperor after just a few tries. But that was a diplomatic win from an island start, which is boring and not really a "proper" game of Civ.

I usually play Emperor, but I don't follow through on most games. Monarch is the last "fun" level.

Immortal and Diety means luck and a lot of map regenerating to get the "right" start.

 

[Xanikk999]

Ive just mastered prince. So i may be moving up to monarch soon. But im probably in no shape for emperor yet.

 

[Howitzah]

I'm mastering Prince as we speak.

 

[sirford]

prince is like making pancakes to me. I'm playing monarch alot to beat it very consistantly. I've tried emporer and got my rear-end handed to me, but i'll be on that level soon.


congrats on beating emporer.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

There is beating Emperor and there is beating Emperor consistently.

I can beat Emperor playing a certain way and if I get abit of luck in terms of landmass and if my enemies want my guts. But consistently, oh no, no way, not a chance.

 

[oligod]

for me the fun is at prince level. why? Its the level who everybody his equal.
I read somewhere that under this level you have advantage in combat, thec. and production. Its the same this above prince level for your neighbors.

 

[Willowmound]

Actually, you are level with the AI on Noble. On Prince the AI has some advantages over you.

 

[Mahatmajon]

Yah, emperor = much harder than Monarch. Whenever I play monarch it's either a fun game or most of the time gets too easy quickly. When I play emperor it's 80%+ of the time HARD and >20% of the time fun/beatable.

Those hard/fun emperor games are the best, though. Had a good one the other day on a tiny map (all settings were random) with many islands. Didn't fight a war for quite some time and managed to hold my own technologically through pyramids/specialist economy. Quick war with City Raider Infantry got me 2 more islands & 2 great cities. Problem now is Monty just declared war (of course) and has 8billion ships (Destroyers) keeping me from doing anything to slow Hatty down who's in the lead.

Lots of fun, though.

EDIT - One thing that bothers me tremendously about Emperor is the frequency that I lose scouts/warriors early on when they have a 90% advantage. I started keeping an Excel log because I was so frustrated with losing a 3% battle every game before 2000BC. It makes it hard to catch up.

 

[seezachswim]

I've become comfortable winning on monarch. Not sure if I will move up to emperor, it sounds a lot more challenging and maybe not as much fun. I'm probably in the minority, but I don't really enjoy coming from behind to win. I like to jump out to the lead in the beginning and just build on it as the game go's on.

 

[Kalleyao]

4 minutes with Incan rush.

 

[GrandMatt]

4 minutes with Incan rush.

hahaha nice work!

Well so far, noone has said that they consistently beat emporer, are there many ppl out there? or does it start to involve luck at higher levels

i also noticed alot of people said they were comfortable on monarch, but found emporer too hard

what do you guys find as the major killers ( game losers ) in the jump to the next difficulty
(not in any order)
*. happiness, only being able to get to 5 pop without luxurys ect
*. starting location
*. resources surrounding
*. neihbouring civs
*. any others?

 

[jar2574]

I think that only a few people in the world could beat anything above emperor consistently. henrikzoon, DaveMcW, Grey Cardinal, and maybe a few others. Other than that, I see those levels as levels where you start over until you get a perfect start.

If anyone doubts this theory, look at the GOTM for India on emperor. Not a whole lot of winning submissions.

 

[ComradeDavo]

I haven't gotten past Noble yet...

I only just have, I'm on Prince now.

 

[The Great Apple]

Hmm. I don't know. I think it was around my 10th game. I was stuck there for a while after beating Monarch. The game after I beat it first I beat it again, so I think I've probabyl got Emperor sorted now.

This is without restarts/reloads or anything dodgy like that BTW. Standard size maps with default Civs.

I haven't played in ages, but I'm trying Immortal next. Either that or I'll do Emperor again with a tweaked AI.