immortal is too easy when playing my fave civs/strats -- the jump to deity is steeper than any other difficulty though, we could really use some kind of intermediate option. Maybe immortal yields with deity unit spam or sumthin
Yes this behavior changed in a recent version -- i'd need to dig to find which -- and it does seem a bit weird. There was a discussion on the discord about it ~last week.
Interesting. I generally play with a random civ so don't have the favorite civ/strat. It feels like Emperor and half or immortal and half when I roll a civ I've never really played before on terrain that does not synergise.
deity is impossible all around tbh, if winning a 'normal' game is the objective. I know a few here play it regularly, and as much as I enjoy the challenge, there are some aspects of it that maybe need to be revisited as VP matures. VP used to have more exploits available to counter the crazy yields and units the AI got at this difficulty, making it a little more 'viable', but most are long gone. TBH the unit spam, while challenging, kinda flattens the military play into mostly tower defense with a sprinkling of opportunistic offensive adventures to prune back the yield-leaders, which can snowball very quickly. On immortal i feel free to plan much more creative and interesting military campaigns, which are more enjoyable, but usually its only a question of when, not if, I can develop a lead there, unless i intentionally avoid optimal plays
Would love to hear about those fav civs/strats. I used to play emperor/immortal when I first started really understanding VP. Not sure if i got worse or the game got harder, but I've only been able to win on King these days. Even Prince for harder civs.
The game definitely got harder after an AI bonus rebalance this year. I got kicked from immortal back to emperor
theres a whole sub here for this
For me its been harder from a tech lag standpoint, but easier from a war stand point.
True. I checked it out a bit, lots of older threads and other very specific queries. Was just curious about your favs, since you mentioned it here. No worries though.
depends on map and some other parameters, but this is a current go-to on the typical maps i play https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/unusual-strategies-you-enjoy.689357/post-16595676
That's a cool and novel strategy. I'll definitely try that next. After I finally win a game as Venice. Some other good ones in that thread as well. Thanks!
Due to change in AI's tactics?
Yep. Something has changed where they dont push as hard. Might be due to them having less units so they are trying to preserve them.
Ofc, AI are not much of a naval commander, and I doubt it will be easy to make them much better. But on land they have improved no doubt, although still far from perfect. So, if you want to enjoy a little bit of combat, you'll have to do it on land. I often disable all victory options but domination, hoping they will concentrate on the essential thing.
The AI does only attempt to go for victory conditions that are active I'm pretty sure. Domination is always considered possible iirc.
