japanesesamurai
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... without made up rules, like no chopping?
I have been beating deity game after game.
So current game I am Nubia which start with very weak tiles. Desert tiles. I settled and had 0 production from tiles. Like literally zero. Only food and no gold, no faith, no science, no culture. My river flooded 3 times. In total I lost 5 pop during the first 30 turns in the capital. By turn 170, in my capital, I had Great Zimbabwe, Petra, Ruhr Valley, University of Sankore, the Mauseleom, Oracle (only 50 faith/turn but still buying the great great peoples), a horsehocky campus with 0 adjecency, a factory, commercial hub, harbor. I had 1 rainforrest and 1 forrest for chopping. I am popping out builders every turn. I turned a horsehocky capital into a power monster without too much effort. Of course I rushed mathematics and industrialization. But here’s the thing, on turn 120 I had 40 science. I delayed Pingala till turn 70’ish. I invested in a religion because I wanted work ethic for another city.
I declared three times to condemn heretics. I had zero battles. Took no cities. My opponents are not that weak on paper: Persia, Gran Colombia, Kongo, Aztecs. They are doing okay, but no way they’ll win.
Setup: small terra map, standard speed, no special modes, no mods, everything default, diplo victory disabled.
I don’t exploit or game the system. I don’t even research grants project that much either. I don’t trade diplo favors that much either. At least not anymore, it feels a bit cheesy.
I am the suzerain of two cs (production, science yields) out of 9. I don’t have the Kilwa wonder.
Kongo built Oxford. He already has sattelites up and I haven’t researched rocketry yet, but there’s no way he’ll win. I have the highest science per turn without even researching research labs yet. And my capital is just too damn good to not lose.
so, what can I do to make the game more difficult? Because ‘’not rerolling” doesnt appear to do all that much. I am good at this game but no way I am an expert. At all.
Also I often forget to switch policy cards. I often forget to switch civic/tech. I don’t save/load scum. Ever.
In this game I even didn’t have a golden classical age either. I hard built my settlers with provision on Magnus. I have like 7-8 cities
I have been beating deity game after game.
So current game I am Nubia which start with very weak tiles. Desert tiles. I settled and had 0 production from tiles. Like literally zero. Only food and no gold, no faith, no science, no culture. My river flooded 3 times. In total I lost 5 pop during the first 30 turns in the capital. By turn 170, in my capital, I had Great Zimbabwe, Petra, Ruhr Valley, University of Sankore, the Mauseleom, Oracle (only 50 faith/turn but still buying the great great peoples), a horsehocky campus with 0 adjecency, a factory, commercial hub, harbor. I had 1 rainforrest and 1 forrest for chopping. I am popping out builders every turn. I turned a horsehocky capital into a power monster without too much effort. Of course I rushed mathematics and industrialization. But here’s the thing, on turn 120 I had 40 science. I delayed Pingala till turn 70’ish. I invested in a religion because I wanted work ethic for another city.
I declared three times to condemn heretics. I had zero battles. Took no cities. My opponents are not that weak on paper: Persia, Gran Colombia, Kongo, Aztecs. They are doing okay, but no way they’ll win.
Setup: small terra map, standard speed, no special modes, no mods, everything default, diplo victory disabled.
I don’t exploit or game the system. I don’t even research grants project that much either. I don’t trade diplo favors that much either. At least not anymore, it feels a bit cheesy.
I am the suzerain of two cs (production, science yields) out of 9. I don’t have the Kilwa wonder.
Kongo built Oxford. He already has sattelites up and I haven’t researched rocketry yet, but there’s no way he’ll win. I have the highest science per turn without even researching research labs yet. And my capital is just too damn good to not lose.
so, what can I do to make the game more difficult? Because ‘’not rerolling” doesnt appear to do all that much. I am good at this game but no way I am an expert. At all.
Also I often forget to switch policy cards. I often forget to switch civic/tech. I don’t save/load scum. Ever.
In this game I even didn’t have a golden classical age either. I hard built my settlers with provision on Magnus. I have like 7-8 cities
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