i think this difficulty needs some adjusting or perhaps a new difficulty needs to be implemented. The game difficulty mainly depends on the civ you choose, and it just so happens that all my favorite civs are the "easy" civs, even on emperor (france, england, vikings, russia, germany, prussia, turks, japan, and a few others)
the game is really hard if you pick some civs, but these above mentioned civs seem a piece of cake on 600 AD marathon speed (the only settings I play). The problem may be that the difficulty isnt hard enough, or it may be just that when you play the above civs its very easy to dominate and see no rival civs.
-An example would be my beloved french whom I love to play in any mod the most but whom I never play because they are OP in every freaking mod. anyways, with the french, once you build your patronage wonders, half of europe including london will flip to your side leaving no competition at all for the rest of the game. The only potential military rival may be russia, as in any game, but russia tends to collapse every game I have played since 1.9 and they never pose a long term threat because they expand and then fall.
-english. on normal speed they may pose difficulty, but on marathon speed piece of cake, no competition at all from neighbour civs. by 1500 AD: build all the catholic wonders, settle half of africa, found protestantism, be first to liberalism, and be half way into culture capturing paris. what threat could there possibly be? (only mughals?). But theres no strong France or Prussia, no spain, nothing which happened historically.
-vikings: if you wanted to, you could raze all of europe several times. nothing can stop you since you can get like 10 good cities before 900 AD
-prussia: sometimes you may have to restart due to bad luck. but most of the time you can just stomp mainland europe by 1800 AD (hire infinite mercenaries and upgrade them for free). but, rarely would you see a strong France, or russia, spain. and even if you do, they collapse sooner or later. the only problem is the english, but they too seem to collapse every now and then. which often leaves me and england as the only power in europe by 1850's because eveyrone else just collapsed for the simple reason because they conquered too much.
i hope you get my point. maybe, on emperor difficulty, AI civs like russia/france/spain shouldnt collapse as often just because they had such a success conquering their neighbours. or maybe instead of collapsing, foreign cities would declare independance. I'd really want to test VD unit graphics on a european power like france, but its no fun when its already evident what will happen
the game is really hard if you pick some civs, but these above mentioned civs seem a piece of cake on 600 AD marathon speed (the only settings I play). The problem may be that the difficulty isnt hard enough, or it may be just that when you play the above civs its very easy to dominate and see no rival civs.
-An example would be my beloved french whom I love to play in any mod the most but whom I never play because they are OP in every freaking mod. anyways, with the french, once you build your patronage wonders, half of europe including london will flip to your side leaving no competition at all for the rest of the game. The only potential military rival may be russia, as in any game, but russia tends to collapse every game I have played since 1.9 and they never pose a long term threat because they expand and then fall.
-english. on normal speed they may pose difficulty, but on marathon speed piece of cake, no competition at all from neighbour civs. by 1500 AD: build all the catholic wonders, settle half of africa, found protestantism, be first to liberalism, and be half way into culture capturing paris. what threat could there possibly be? (only mughals?). But theres no strong France or Prussia, no spain, nothing which happened historically.
-vikings: if you wanted to, you could raze all of europe several times. nothing can stop you since you can get like 10 good cities before 900 AD
-prussia: sometimes you may have to restart due to bad luck. but most of the time you can just stomp mainland europe by 1800 AD (hire infinite mercenaries and upgrade them for free). but, rarely would you see a strong France, or russia, spain. and even if you do, they collapse sooner or later. the only problem is the english, but they too seem to collapse every now and then. which often leaves me and england as the only power in europe by 1850's because eveyrone else just collapsed for the simple reason because they conquered too much.
i hope you get my point. maybe, on emperor difficulty, AI civs like russia/france/spain shouldnt collapse as often just because they had such a success conquering their neighbours. or maybe instead of collapsing, foreign cities would declare independance. I'd really want to test VD unit graphics on a european power like france, but its no fun when its already evident what will happen
