Monarch jump

[hbdragon88]

I am currently playing gotm16-Rome, Emperor, and am getting pounded pretty bad. I won't reveal any sensitive information here because this is not a spoiler. Last month I played the gotm15-Russia, monarch.

There seems to be a HUGE jump between monarch and emperor, but isn't it not that big? I have noticed real AI aggression, like early wars that wiped out two neighbors, continous warring, and more tribute demands. While at monarch I could trade ancient/middle techs at around 400 gold, it takes upwards fo 600 gold to buy techs like Meurtallgy.

There's also a lot more unhappiness; surprised that a one content citizen only would totally dismantle my cities into starvation (because entertainers, which starve them out)

If I get an answer this gotm may be more bearable with the answer in mind.

 

[jack merchant]

Avoid entertainers. Most of the time, it's much better to use the luxury slider instead. Also, the best approach to science seems to be that you should either go into it at maximum speed or not at all (use a token scientist or set the slider to 10 %) and just buy everything.

 

[Michael York]

You'll get a real kick out of the jump from Emporer to Deity. That is demoralizing the first time you run across an enemy that out builds you that much. (8 cities by the time you build #3 sometimes)

 

[Park Ranger]

Originally posted by hbdragon88
There seems to be a HUGE jump between monarch and emperor, but isn't it not that big?

The AI's advantage over human player is twice on emperor what it is on monarch. Add the extra units they start with, and yeah, its a HUGE jump.

Note that the advantage doubles again when playing on deity.

 

[Jurimax]

I'm sorry Pi, but to me the jump didn't appear to be that big. On the GOTM15 I did ok, but eventually lost the Space Race. I finished GOTM16 today, and I had a diplomatic victory. I owned the AI (to some extent )

Note: couple of months ago I could barely survive on Regent.
GOTM and especially QSC have helped me improve my skills a lot. Specifically the keeping of a timeline makes you think a lot of your opening moves, the most important moves of the game.

Greets Jurimax

 

[hbdragon88]

I bought most of my techs, let the AI run with scissors, and decided that if they wanted gold, they would get the gold. Was the gotm15 and 16 your first monarch/emperor game?

It was to me.

 

[Jurimax]

GOTM 15 and 16 were my first completed games at monarch and emperor. I had previously started some random games, but that was before reading some of the great strategies here at cfc, as you can see, I've been a member of this board for a long time, but only recently have I begun activley browsing the forums. This has improved my playing skills a great deal.
The random games at monarch and emperor I previously mentioned, weren't even completed, I'd play for some turns, get discouraged by the AI advance rate and build rate, and quit back to chieftan and warlord.

One of my biggest helps however, was trying to keep an as accurate as possible timeline for the qsc part of the gotm. In gotm 15 I never got around to submitting it, in gotm 16 I remebered to keep my timeline and submitted it. I'm not going to tell you that I had an impressive start, but I did OK, and now I've won.

It's ok to buy techs, but one thing you really should try, is discovering techs the ai has no interest in. If you can get these first, it can be the lever you need to turn the game around.

Greets
Jurimax