Play now or Customized Game

[Soundwαvє ▼]

I'll do more than 10000 clicks in the game, more 7 to start in play now doesn't matter, but I'll start using the custom.

 

[EustaceMonk]

I don't know if others have this issue, but some maps don't appear in my Play Now map choice options. Custom Game for me has more map choices (not just one's that I've loaded on either!).

 

[Bandobras Took]

Play Now.

With Custom Games, you can end up making the game easier for yourself in ways you don't realize.

 

[Sisiutil]

Play Now.

With Custom Games, you can end up making the game easier for yourself in ways you don't realize.

True, but it doesn't take much--a discussion like this, for example--to understand that.

And it isn't always such a bad thing to be able to make the game a little easier, since the goal is to enjoy it. Many players complain about how moving up a level makes the game frustratingly hard for them (while remaining on the previous level makes it frustratingly easy). It can be nice to know that fiddling with a few options (like, say, enabling No Tech Brokering, or No Barbarians, or No Random Events, or even, if approached properly, Aggressive AI) can nerf the next level a little bit. The extra settings can be like training wheels for a new level. Eventually, you should be able to take them off and still win.