survey: What level are you playing?

Playing noble, have won 4 games already... but I still haven't get diplomacy victory.
Yesterday I got my 1st culture win... with Malinese. I was alone in my island(9 civs in large map, 3 continents)... actually I shared island with russians, but there was a point where was a mountain what separated us. 2 victories were spaceships and one was score(Actually that's not so much win than others).
 
Deity - I've never won a game before.

Immortal is the best I've done, although I generally lose about 1/5th of my games.

I struggle fairly hard on Emperor, although I do win a majority of my games.

Monarch I can win with little difficulty, usually with a good lead in technology around the end. Most of the time I lead the score by about a thousand.
 
I'm playing Emperor with standard settings, very hard to me, at the moment I've lost e v e r y game :rolleyes:

I've never lost on monarch and lower levels so I'm sure to loose some important basic strategy...

My goal is always conquest/domination with Romans or English-Elizabeth, always on small Pangea
 
Noble, until I meet 1 of 2 requirements. Either I win 3 in a row (short games), or I regularly win more than half my games. I started with Noble, and I've only played 3 full games. I've lost 2.
 
I like to mix it up a lot. The best I've beaten is emperor but then I haven't tried immortal. I tend to enjoy playing on lower difficulties (noble to monarch) and just try to get early finish dates. I don't really care how hard the AI is. I can still challenge myself by trying to beat my best finish dates.
 
I'm currently playing on Prince, trying to get my wins more consistent before I move up to Monarch.

I also find that size does matter. It's much easier for me to get wins on smaller maps than larger ones (especially Domination/Diplomatic). I almost find it easier to get wins on Small or less Prince maps than on Noble with Large or Huge.
 
Dairuka: Do you even feel you have a chance on Deity? I've tried a few games (a ton actually, but they don't last that long) and I've never, ever been remotely close to even surviving. I've tried every trick I know, Quechua rush, Immortal rush, Praetorian rush. Not rushing isn't an option because the AI has my entire continent colonized before I can build my fourth city. I feel that I soon will be where I was in the early Civ 3, being able to beat all difficulties fairly easily but not standing a chance on Deity. Well, I could beat Deity in Civ 3, but that was only by using the merchant strategy.

If you have any pointers on how to survive the first few thousand years on Deity, I'm all ears.
 
I'm playing on prince difficulty with 18 civs on epic speed. Usually continents or terra for a map. No space race or diplomatic victories enabled. Its all about controlled expansion of your empire. Take a city per era.
 
The question I have, and maybe it is better in a new thread (stuff it, I'll still ask), is for the people that can beat Civ4 say on Emperor or higher, is what do you do differently on these higher levels to beat the game as compared to playing the game on say Noble or Prince?

Even though it is too soon for Civ4, with Civ3 there were plenty of helpful War Academy guides that would give you the basic skills to be competitive on these higher levels. Nothing as yet with Civ4 so I thought I'd pick all of your collective brains about this.
 
Immortal, standard map sizes.
I normally played civ3 on emperor or diety and beat it on sid, but I find that diety in civ4 is slightly more difficult then sid in civ3, because of the lack of armies in civ4
 
I play at noble and enjoy it!
 
siff said:
The latest level I was playing is prince, I won one game there. Tried the next one but it was to hard for me.

Siff
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Im on prince. Once you have noble down, the ai just cannot compete with my late game. Im on prince and hopefully will work up to monarch. Past monarch I could care less, the feeling of wow I did it is < frustration in doing it. If I can compete on monarch and have epic naval battles in th eend game with awesone fighter activy :D then Ill be happy. My favorite victory is point. But I take the late game military approach to that point victory :D To me point victory is = Best civ in the world. Thast why I like it so much :D
 
I'm trying my first Emperor game going for cultural victory with Ghandi and things seem to be going pretty well. Except that it seems the AI is much more reluctant to trade with you on these difficulty levels. They don't want to start trading away fishing just yet? That's a little ridiculous. Maybe its just the neighbours I happen to have are jerks on tech trading, but it seems its harder to get ahead by tech trading on emperor. Before that I played on monarch a bunch and usually won, but it can still get me to lose. Usually from space race, as the AI seems to magically acquire all the modern techs at once and I didn't feel like going for the space race.
 
Emperor.

I actually managed to win my only foray into Immortal, but it felt too random, plus Monty could have crushed me at anytime, had he chosen to do so, and there was little I could do about it without losing the tech race. Win felt cheap.

Emperor is a good challenge, but sound play should almost always result in victory. I've been enjoying the pre-packaged scenarios, and those seem like about one difficulty level harder, so sometimes play one level below emperor (monarch?).
 
Playing on Emperor now. Monarch is simple, but now I am having to learn how to chop-rush effectively to keep up with the AI's advantage. What helped me when moving to Emperor was to find out what advantages the AI was getting. I started a map and opened the world builder just to see what the AI had at the very beginning, then try to plan my strategy to match that. If I can get on close to even footing, then I win :)
 
Gufnork said:
Dairuka: Do you even feel you have a chance on Deity? I've tried a few games (a ton actually, but they don't last that long) and I've never, ever been remotely close to even surviving. I've tried every trick I know, Quechua rush, Immortal rush, Praetorian rush. Not rushing isn't an option because the AI has my entire continent colonized before I can build my fourth city. I feel that I soon will be where I was in the early Civ 3, being able to beat all difficulties fairly easily but not standing a chance on Deity. Well, I could beat Deity in Civ 3, but that was only by using the merchant strategy.

If you have any pointers on how to survive the first few thousand years on Deity, I'm all ears.
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I usually feel like my chances of winning on Deity are futile... I tend to, "Know" by the time I reach the Renessaince era... By then I'm usually in last place, with a meager army in comparison to the AI's... Then they declare war.

Then I fight them with Knights, while they got Cavalry. =(

The best way to survive all of the years is to get an open border treaty with your neighbour, and cram a religion down their throat.

I usually beeline for key wonders as well to survive:

The Great Lighthouse - Alleviates the woes of having no real economy in comparison to the booming research of my enemies who all have 7+ cities comparing to my 3 undeveloped ones. The lighthouse also makes up for the lack of improvements as the AI pillages and rampages across my countryside.

Chichen Itza - Oddly enough, this wonder is crucial. The huge defensive bonuses offset most AI's, and to the AI's that it doesn't offset, they'll lament it greatly. The extra bonus helps to kill off two or three extra knights with your obselete spearmen... or a couple praetorians with your barely surviving axemen.

I've never lasted past the moment the AI gets Military Tradition. Thats usually when they cram Cavalry down my throat.
 
Mastered Monarch level.

Lost one game on Emeror.
I'm in process of winning another, but that's MP hotseat so it's easer then SP Emperor.

My next goal is to finally beat Emperor level.
 
Yeah OCC is good practice at making super cities, which is useful even when not playing OCC. When you play an OCC and realize how well you're keeping up with the AI's even though you only have one city it makes you realize how much better you could do if you had multiple cities. Sure you can't build all the national epics in one city but you can make 2 or 3 super cities instead. I definitely learned a lot with my OCC noble win. I didn't even have a good city location (had a ton of coastal tiles and only 1 hill).

OCC's are fun also because the game goes by so quickly since you only have the one city to manage.
 
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