Newbie with questions.

[Lanzelot]

Thats what makes me think it was a respawn rather than a settlement. I'm not sure if I have a save of around that time to look at but the terrain wasnt special, BG but no wheat or cows so growth couldnt have been phenomenal. Its sort of possible it was just lost in FoW until I killed the other city which was definitely showing a capital flag.

Hmm, I don't think the AI can rush several units and a settler in one turn, on any level. I'd rather say it was one of the following:

• The town and the units were already there, but were hidden in the FoW, so you didn't see it yet. If you have an embassy with a civ, and you destroy their capital, and the capital jumps into a FoW area, then it becomes visible to you immediately, because of the embassy.
• The area was already discovered by you (so no FoW) and the settlers / stack of units were already there, but not visible to you. Then in the turn you destroyed their last town, they did not die (because still had a settler), and in the interturn the settled a new capital, which became visible to you.
• It was indeed a "real respawn" and the rules of respawn are such that they start with more than just a settler/worker pair?! I've never played with respawn on, but it would make sense to give them more units, otherwise they would die again right away...! I wouldn't be surprised, if the respawn worked in such a way that it depends on how far everybody else is advanced. For example the game could look at the currently weakest civ and then give the respawned civ the same amount of units, techs and settlers as that weakest civ. (Might be an interesting research project to discover the rules of respawning...! Well, never mind: AI respawn rules)

 

[Lanzelot]

I have nothing left to build in the game at the moment except for wonders and troops of all kinds.

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So any tips?

Well, suribure, I think I have the solution to your problem: increase the difficulty by at least 2 levels...!

Lanzelot

 

[suribure]

First of all thank you for all your advice in this thread. I enjoy it greatly and it was helpful. I know have two chieftain victories under my belt.

The first one was the game that I asked advice on, which was a victory by popular vote. I promise it had nothing to do with me bribing everyone with 1000 gold. I promise it did not affect them at all *whistles innocently*

The second game was a cultural victory, I was a little bit more aggressive in my expansion so because of that I got 4 cities on the main land. (random gave me standard, continent.But again on an Island this time alone.) Those 4 cities flipped 5 other cities to my cause, but still I should have expanded when I got the galley right away instead of waiting. As there was plenty of land left when I first arrived. No wars were reported as I made some deals with all the other civilizations that kept them quiet. ( 1gpt who knew it was so powerful on chieftain.) I was going for a space race victory this time but what happen is that in 1894 ( of by maybe +- 2 years) I got a cultural victory. I was like What! I did not knew a culture victory would come so fast.

the rating that I got from the game was both "foolish" O well next time I will strive to do better and also be more aggressive in expanding. So my next victory goal will be domination.

Any more tips in advance, before I start on that? Should I go up in difficulty yet? or do I need to do something else first?

 

[Aabraxan]

First of all, congratulations on your victories!

Two victories at Chieftain, of any sort, is one more than you needed to be ready to move up a level. Time to move up to Warlord. Oh, and from what I understand, bribery is SOP for diplo victories.

 

[GamezRule]

congratz on the victories,
btw, i skipped warlord and went right to regent when i won my first 2 victories on chieftain, i think with the help of the war academy and all us here at civ fanatics you can too
(i had no such help, lucky devil)

 

[Nergal]

Aah it was a respawn .. thanks for the link