It could be. Since there are more turns, the AI may decide to allocate its resources differently. It's hard to say really, but Epic and Marathon generally play out quite differently than Normal, so it's not just more turns.
Do you play on a language other than English? DoC is not completely translated, and for some reason that means that it doesn't run at all unless your language is set to English.
Yes, I play the German Version, so thats probably why. Do I have to reinstall or can I change the language somewhere?
And (if it's okay to ask here, I don't really want to open a thread for it, but if you deem it better I will):
I have a few questions regarding Russia in RFC Marathon (yeah, since Japan can't get the wonders I didn't really want to play them^^)
- City Place: Which Cities to found/keep?
I founded Moscow on the spot (1south is probably better), got Riga (on the cows) from the Germans and founded Kiev, Budapest and Vologda (next to the fur) and then as soon as seemed useful Samara (2 West of the Iron, East of Moscow, to get the stone for Sakore & Spinal).
Then I later founded Ekaterinburg in order to settle Siberia and "Chicago" & "L.A." (north of the deer). (I was the first to discover the new world)
In order to get my first UHV I founded several cities on the same turn and then gifted them to Mongolia (3 "liberated", 3 gifted, kept Ekaterinburg) so as to not go above the 10 city-limit.
What would you do differently?
And: I don't know if its me or RFC Marathon but my stability seems to be varying quite a lot. In the time of a few (maybe 3-5) turns it went from +21 to 0 even if nothing happened (nobody discovered democracy, no wars, no closed borders, no new cities....) and it is constantly low (around +4 to -15).
I know I shouldn't be running slavery in 17xx but I want to get Christo before changing as I'm afraid the anarchy will more than offset any gains from changing the civics (HR, none, Slavery, none, org. Rel., none).
Especially since I'm sort of beelining in this direction because of the UB.
Do you have any suggestions on how to improve my play? (I'm winning on Emperor as Russia is pretty easy if you get a good start, but still I want to learn)