How often do you win at the difficulty level(s) you choose to play at?

[jango76]

In the "what difficulty level do you play on" poll, it seems like there's a mix of some people who like to play on a difficulty level that challenges them, and others on a difficulty level they can comfortably beat. It would be interesting to know the statistics.

(This probably wants to be in the G&K forum - oops)
Moderator Action: -> moved.

 

[RaiddinnRZ]

Prince - 100%

 

[bayes]

Settler 10% win

 

[Dogmouth]

Always, lol. I play emperor and don't remember ever losing or giving up because I was losing. I suppose I should level up, but kicking butt is good for stress relief.

 

[Light Cleric]

Eh...I said about 50/50 on Deity. Some of the losses are due to experimenting with new strategies in G&K, some are due to luck, but many are due to me just playing badly and making poor/rash decisions; we're all human and I have plenty of improvements to make. I really think my biggest problem is not taking breaks; I have a huge dropoff if I play for too long and I play MUCH better and think much more clearly when I play short 30-40 turn sessions. I'll look back the next day after a long play session and think "WTH did I do that for?". Like in my game yesterday as Monty, it was CLEAR I should have taken Missionary Zeal with Interfaith Dialogue because two civs had already spread a bunch of places and were easily out-pressuring me, but instead I took Religious Texts because I was not thinking well.

But the game is so addicting it's hard to limit yourself for a few dozen turns

 

[Smokeybear]

I play MUCH better and think much more clearly when I play short 30-40 turn sessions...but it's so addicting

30-40 turn sessions.... MWUHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

In my frickin' dreams.

 

[Tachii]

Probably somewhere between the first and second option on Immortal. Sometime I reroll because the start is just awful and I don't want to play another turtle game, and I consider that a loss than a win. And sometimes I just lose motivation entirely to finish a game, even though I've pretty much won the game already as early as Renaissance. And I won't call that a win either.

 

[TallNSturdy]

Win a fair bit of the time unless I decide to try something new or start a war that I thought I had the tech advantage in only to find the AI had a bunch of higher tech units in the fog of war. Last game I scouted out the guy to the right of me and saw like 3 units and very few cities. Figured he was going builder and I wanted what he built. Moved in, declared war and then all the guys off killing barb camps surrounded me. They picked off my guys from the rear and 2 other civs jumped on the band wagon. Usually stupid stuff like that gets me killed.

 

[Dogmouth]

30-40 turn sessions.... MWUHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

In my frickin' dreams.

Yeah, same here. I have a job that never leaves me alone, a toddler who is absolutely wonderful but would never let me play a game while she's awake, and a pregnant wife (also wonderful, but also not someone I could ever ignore for any period of time). I'm lucky to squeeze in 10 turns while I'm cooking dinner and answering emails.

 

[Buccaneer]

50% on Immortal. There are still a number of civs I haven't played so I have more testing/learning to do.

 

[MantaRevan]

4/4 on King. I wouldn't really call that 100 percent just yet, because it's not enough to say. 100 percent on Prince and below though.

 

[ArchyDarky]

About 85% on king and 40 % on emperor.

 

[Hammer Rabbi]

100% on King and under, 90% on emperor, 30% on Immortal, 0% on Deity.

40% of my games are on Emperor, 30% on Immortal, 10% on Deity, and the rest on King and under.

(didnt vote)

 

[nefloyd]

More often than not, since I occasionally reload 10 or 20 turns back and I consider that to be dropping me from 'almost always' down. Plus been pushing the envelope a bit moving to higher difficulties.

 

[Yzman]

I play on King and win 95-100% of the time. I don't like playing too much higher because I feel the AI advantages lose the immersion for me.

 

[Gori the Grey]

When I first bought the game, I started on settler and worked my way up. I won at each level (except my first try at king, largely because I failed to pay attention to the changes in a big patch). Now I play at deity, and I've only won once in over a dozen tries.

I play on standard size map with everything else random and I don't reroll. I try to play my way out of whatever situation I find myself in. And I play until the bitter end, even if it's clear to me that I have no chance of winning.

 

[Peng Qi]

Immortal - 10%

Maybe closer to 30% if you don't count games I abandoned early-on.

 

[JetStream]

First of all i play on Marathon speeds so the game becomes easier compared to other speeds as far as my experience is concerned.

At prince and King difficulty, i win always.

Playing OCC at king, its a toss up. specially if i delay to warmonger.

The higher difficulty ones, i rarely win. unless i reroll starting positions which will give me a great advantage to counter the increase in difficulty and still it fails most of the time as well.

 

[n00bxqb]

Sometimes I'm not playing to win, so not all the time. A lot of the time, I'm just trying out different ideas and different scenarios to see what works and what doesn't.

My friends and I play Shuffle on multiplayer w/ randomized leaders, start bias disabled, etc., so having experience in different outlooks and adaptations really helps.

I usually play Prince. I've won at the higher difficulties, but I don't find them particularly fun. I basically just did it to get the Steam achievements.

 

[danieladler]

Deity, over 9000%! Yay, i won!