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weimar_republic

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I hear about all you good player, on diety against 7 civs starting on a area with one grassland and 18 mountians beating AI's with 5000 years head start and already having nuclear weapons!!! I cant even do a good game at King yet!!!

ARGG!!

anyone else out there suk as bad as I do and agree with me? lets post more so that we can chat about games!

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Whats the point of living if you cant do anything stupid?
 
Deity? I've not even been there!
I play on Prince if I want a challange, King if I want my bottom whipped, or at the very least kept firmly in my place.

If that makes me a Civ remedial then so be it!
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It just takes time and experience to play well on King and above. Up to prince it's pretty much only small jumps in difficulty, but for some reason as soon as you play on king, the game gets much harder. Try to win on King, if you can, you beat the game on any level with just a little more practice.

Playing multiplayer really helps your AI games too, so if you can, go get your a** whooped in a multiplayer game then you will completely master AI opponents.

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Well, no one is good as you mentioned. But many of us are experts at the game. I can beat the game on diety fairly easily. Its all a matter of balance of science and war.

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I still play on Prince and hasn't dared to go up on King yet (I didn't once and didn't get the Pyramids, and was very angry indeed). Last time I won with six years margin with Spaceship. That's bad, right? (I only had nine cities, because I forgot to build Settlers when I started to irrigate)

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forever!!

[This message has been edited by Håkon (edited April 20, 2001).]
 
It takes time and practice. But never let anyone make you believe that "Practice makes perfect". It doesn't. Only <u>perfect</u> practice makes perfect. So absorb what you can from these forums - there's some really good stuff here - and put it into your practice.

The differences that Blue Monday was talking about kick in because the AI starts to have a production advantage over you at King and above as well as your having a greater unhappiness factor. At King it takes 20% less shields for it to build stuff as you. At higher levels this is 40% and 60%. Ouch! However unlike him, I think that the difference between Prince and King is much less than going from King upwards.

Winning with a six year SS margin is the same as winning with a 1 year or a 20 year margin. It's still a win! But with only nine cities you have very little flexibility. You need to expand, expand, expand!

Here's a challenge. Go back and download Game of the Month #2. It's a large map King game. Concentrate on spinning off settlers all the time to expand. Concentrate on getting more smaller cities rather than fewer larger cities. Don't worry - you won't get a lot of interference from other civs for a long time, trust me! If you can get 50 cities built by the year 1000 then you should have no problem on King level on any game and map. If you can't make 50 cities, that's the area you need to practice before moving up.



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well, my strat is simple:

first, I make sure all my cities have a unit defending it, then I make settlers, and settle untill I am blocked by my enemys and the sea. I usually try to africa or the americas and block off any acess to these places with a well placed city. then I improve infastructure as much as I can, and try to get my SS up ASAP. I am not much for war.

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Whats the point of living if you cant do anything stupid?
 
I've not played Deity yet, but I've made it up to Emperor in less than a year by reading the suggestions around here. A few thoughts:

Don't be afraid to fight a war. It can be helpful in many ways. Sometimes it is better to fight an early war to gain access to territory for expansion. (Wouldn't you rather have Africa and Eurasia instead of just Africa? If Total Victory seems out of reach, then taunt nearby civs into a defensive war where they attack your inpreganble defensive positions and waste their shields on suicide units while you develop elsewhere.

Also, Don't be afraid to flank another civ with a city on the far side of them to continue your growth (just be prepared to defend it quickly). It will box them in and stunt their growth, and it further divides their resources into two fronts.

Every time I have moved up a level I start to think I am going to lose in the early-middle portion of the game, but then I continue to grow faster than the AI and start to leave them behind.

(And I still haven't been able to build 50 cities by 1000!)


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I would hardly say you suck, it's just that some people are ridiculously good!
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Anyways, I don't fancy myself neither an expert nor an amateur, and my general games are on Emperor level, which is still challenging to me, but not impossible. King can work too, but it's a tad to easy, all depending on how I play. I also have this tendency to try to rebuild historically correct kingdoms, such as France, Spain, Great Britain and such. And THAT can be tough on Emperor, when you play on, say the Europe map, and try to make do with the British isles when your Russian opponent is expanding all over the place... Sheesh
 
I usually re-create historical scenarios too. the only game I ever won by brute force was my only game on a non-earth map... maybe I should try another one...
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Whats the point of living if you cant do anything stupid?
 
Personally I only played on Earth once or twice. You'll definitely improve more quickly by playing a random map, and generally by trying a slightly different strategy each time. Don't bother with Fundamentalism at first either--it makes it too easy and it'll take you longer to get the hang of maintaining happiness. which is increasingly important at higher levels.

My mantra: "Skill is just effective luck management." (i.e.: expand if you get a lucky start position; go to war without hesitation if you get placed right next to another civ; form an alliance if you're being screwed from all sides--even if you need to grovel)
 
Another key point.
Only believe a bit of what some people tell you.
Liars, cheats, thieves, and bad influences.
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I suk to at empor level
I always play oN DEITHY!
I Don't like war in my games, I love to expand and create very good ecomic civ's
like icomes above 500 a turn something like that! It Rulez!
 
I usually play on prince, because I always like to win. I should probably move up, but I don't like the prospect of losing.
 
Believe it or not, but I actually like to loose occasionally!

There, I've said it. Not all empires lasted forever, some were totally destroyed, others just shrank to totally unimportant nations in the end ( Turkey comes to mind... ) and such. And I can certainly say that I do not *always* win on Emperor, let alone Deity, but I don't grow overly agitated when I lose, it's all a part of it!
 
Always deity........

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