Just won my first Prince game

[JustinianIV]

Any victory is impressive if it is one you learnt from, so congrats!

 

[LikeMike]

Thanks for the congrats again.

How difficult is the step up from King to, what is it, Emperor? Is it like the step up from Prince or way harder? I would like to see how far up I can go, but I don`t really want to get crushed...

 

[ToodleElNoodos]

If ya wanna give domination a roll, do it on Settler for a Tiny Pangaea map. I hate warmonger plays, but I did want to get it out of my system.

 

[Vidszhite]

On my first Emperor win, I was never higher than 4th place throughout most of the game. Brazil was almost 1000 points ahead of me in first place when I won. I focused on a science victory while building up my culture as a defense against her monstrous tourism levels. It was a close call, but very satisfying.

On the other hand, I'm going to abandon my current game as the Zulu since Indonesia will not stop invading me with ridiculous numbers of troops. My defense has been OK, but I can't deploy any caravans....

My latest Immortal win, I was also probably 4th place, and was also 15 turns away from losing a Cultural Victory to runaway Austria. I actually was already under her influence, and it was up to France and Siam to hold out against her while I built my spaceship. First SV of the new expansion.

Ironically, nobody was even close to winning Diplo, as everyone pretty much had the same level of influence.

Never give up. Even when all looks lost, you can still come back.

 

[Vidszhite]

Thanks for the congrats again.

How difficult is the step up from King to, what is it, Emperor? Is it like the step up from Prince or way harder? I would like to see how far up I can go, but I don`t really want to get crushed...

My advice, definitely try King first, and if that feels too easy, move up to Emperor. IME, once you start doing so well at a difficulty that it starts to feel too easy, the next one up is usually just as challenging as the one before used to be. Simply beating one game on Price probably doesn't mean it's time to go up to Emperor. That might just mean it's time to try Prince again to see if you didn't just stumble into victory by accident (obviously it wasn't *totally* luck, but you need to make sure you know what it is you learned from the win, so you can apply the knowledge).

 

[superliminal]

Play a couple more games on prince and move up to king! I was hesitant to move up to emperor for the longest time. Like you, I was intimidated by the perpetual war-lust of the neighboring civilization, when you're barely getting started. But I decided to give it a shot for BNW. It was the most fun I can remember having with Civ 5! From the beginning to the end it was a tense game. I held off invasions, juggled alliances, mounted invasions of my own... For me, so far, BNW manages to keep the game interesting for far longer than the previous versions. I never feel so horribly behind that I couldn't come back, but I've rarely felt so far ahead that I'm bored either, even in the late game.

 

[LikeMike]

Thanks for the advice - but I think you didn't read my post before the last one . I already play and win on King without much of a problem - I might have gotten a little lucky, because nobody attacked me, but nobody else was really close to victory, while I think I could've easily won another victory type as well...

 

[JustinianIV]

I found the move from prince to king almost unnoticeable. The move to Emperor, however, was jarring. So many more barbs, which really affected my exploration and settling. I'm a new immortal player and it is noticeably more difficult, but still fun.

Out of my 700 hours of Civ V, I've played about 90% in Emp.

 

[Rhaegar7]

I'd suggest trying multiplayer after you've beaten king. Emperor and above are all about exploting the stupid AI and a lot of your strategic options are taken away because of the A.I.'s ridiculous buffs. I guess it's still ok at emperor, but at immortal it's just not the game it was meant to be.


At any rate - multi is where it's at with all Civ games.

 

[njmfff]

So, I´ve been playing Civ since the first one (skipped part 3) - not as much as most of you I guess, but I still spent lots of hours with this game so far. And just now I´ve won my first game on Prince difficulty.
I know that`s not impressive to you guys - actually it`s rather impressive that it took me so long. But to my defense, I it was also the first time I´ve played at Prince difficulty, usually I had the setting even lower for two reasons:

I guess most started on Prince, but people don't like to talk about it.

1. I am not very patient. I don`t spend much time to think about minor things or basically most things in this game. I look at what seems to be reasonable and go with it without giving it a second thought.

If you ever though of playing on higher difficulty, maybe you should start. Altho, till King, you're kinda fine even not thinking too much.

And what can I say, it was the best game I´ve played so far. I played as the Shoshones and had a rough start being in the middle of 4 other civs. And I got attacked a lot - seems like the Civs have no problem to befriend you and then attack you a couple of rounds later. I am not sure, why I was denounced so often. But thanks to the videos, I had a pretty good defense and even took some of their cities before allowing peace.

Did you do something in World Congress to piss them off? I found that AIs are more then willing to gang up and attack you on the next turn (or next few turns) if you propose something they really hate, like different world ideology then their own, world religion, ban their luxury and so on.

At the end it wasn`t close. I had the lead in votes and tourism when my spacecraft launched - any of these victories would have been possible. Who knows, maybe I even try King next.

I suggest you should try, maybe play few more games on Prince, then move to King. It really becomes fun to play once you get hang of higher diff play, since AI can actually beat you there if you don't pay attention.

 

[LikeMike]

So, my second King game didn`t go as well. I was on a continent with Alexander and I think the Iroquese. I was playing as Brazil going for a culture win. I missed the Chitzen Itza, which sucked (someone really beelined for it) and didn`t have much room to settle. But I got a nice economy going with several brazilian wooden camps.

I was usually at the second spot points wise, but had trouble to get lots of tourism going (only way is great works, artifacts, Eiffel Tower, Hotels and Airports, right?). That and Greece attacked me regularly (it hurt that we picked different ideologies and religions) - I guess Alex was also pissed, that I stole his city states regularly. I had to, since he had almost all of them.

Well after being able to fight him of for the first 3 wars (I lost one city that was kinda far away), he finally took the finishing blow when he hit atomic age. He attacked me with a huge army (mine wasn`t too small, about middle of the pack) - and all of a sudden, 6 other civs declared war on me as well. This and about 8 city states that Alex was aligned with. I killed lots of his units, but had no chance in the end.

It was may mistake not building a bigger military or even taking some of his cities earlier. The thing that was bothering me is, that I was nowhere near a culutral victory (had 3 cives ad under 20% influence and only one over 50% by 1940) - I acually was closer to a diplomatic victory I think without going into the "Commerce" policy tree. I need to figure out, what I did wrong and how to get more tourism going...

 

[Jimdigriz]

Everything is great in my current Prince game as Shoshone. Trouble is, its a bit too great. I did have a very good start but I almost feel like Im going to have to start fighting someone soon because no one wants to fight me!

Indonesia looked like they were going to start something and sent some of those Kris swordsmen etc over. Soon as I put a few troops on my border they soon backed off.

Going to finish this game though just for the experience - and then go King level.

 

[BluegrassGeek]

I still find Prince a bit difficult, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. Got lucky on my latest game, as Byzantium, in that I managed to start on a peninsula that was completely isolated from the rest of the continent by a pair of mountains. Had three city-states all to myself, and plenty of time to focus on building religion & culture before I finally started to embark units for expanding. On the other half of the continent, Assyria wiped out America and became my primary trading partner for a good chunk of the game.

Once I picked up the ability to traverse deep water, I found the other continent and became best friends with Sweden. We both went on to conquer the planet: he wiped out everyone but Ghandi on his continent, and I kept Assyria so isolated they weren't even a threat. The World Congress is a fun thing when you're in control.

By the end, I actually saved a game right before winning a Diplomatic victory. After winning, I reloaded and won a culture victory... by taking out Ghandi with some nukes and XCOM Squads. I was Influential with both Sweden and Assyria, the only two civs left, so I got the culture win by default.

I'm going to give Prince a couple more tries, as my early game is the weakest part. Need to figure out a better strategy for that before moving up to King.

 

[ToothedBomb]

Emperor and above are all about exploting the stupid AI and a lot of your strategic options are taken away because of the A.I.'s ridiculous buffs

I got that feeling too. I always play on King difficulty. The AI is stupid sometimes, so give 'em their bonusses, but things get out of hand on the higher difficulties.

 

[steveg700]

Question, folks. At what diff does the AI start with two cities? Immortal or Emp?

 

[Browd]

Deity is the only level where the AI starts with 2 settlers.