Thx to share your experience.
I have a ton of time since I don't work. Sometimes I even got twisted between nap and Civ/games.
Despite having more than 1000 hours in Civ5 in Steam (without the expansions because i got disappointed with game multiplayer - the reason I bought it, you know
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I beat Deity once and never touched it again. (plus it was with Korea, an "easy mode" civ) Was quite fun actually, I didn't wadged a single war during the game, while at the end it was the nuke apocalypse everywhere except inside my borders. That's because each time I noticed armies near my borders, I asked them to go to war with someone else, and it never failed. (AI was so eager to do wars that it was easy, even against other civ following the same ideology than them) Finally I got science victory and quitted this polluted planet. Of course, I had early to take care about making settlers as soon as possible and place cities wisely, and take the few space available. Maybe I got 5 cities I don't remember. And I was I guess lucky too, I was Korea but I maybe was a kind of Gandhi for the AIs. (or rather, was lucky that no blob civ formed, but I was taking care of that in my plots)
If I managed to win Deity only after all that time, that's mainly because I had problems with global happiness, that I criticized multiple times in those forums. Until I realised that happiness was harder to handle in Prince than in Deity, because in Prince you have the same happiness than in Deity, and in Prince you conquer a lot more and earlier, what always put me out. Plus, I never managed to understand some jumps in happiness, ideologies let aside. So I feel it's good to have "completed" it and never come back.
As to Civ6, I always check multiplayer games before going solo. If there's a game with "standard rules" that's named "Welcome All" or "FFA" or even teams, I will go for it. Unfortunately, all the other games that don't look alike I'm kicked before I can say a word. (or just after I said "hi", lovely) Never knew why. (and I'm not the only one, so I guess either it's "private" games, or the host is referring to your ping and maybe the silly buggy messages you get sometimes, like "incompatible files" or something like that, which is by all means false. And to judge by the ratio "new game/reloads", I would say that it's not some users that are bad, just the game) I would have a lot to say about multiplayer but I better start on solo.
OK, so I beat Deity once with Scythia. I could have said "completed", but since there is no Civ7, I try to beat Deity with now Rome. I must have tried 5-10 times, if not beat early, I always end up having 20 techs or more less than the leader. So basically when I'm building knights he or she builds research labs. (I can see them in their territory) Meh. Last try I managed to make the switch between warriors and Legions more meaningful : as usual I stole a settler to a neighbour, settle the city, and strangely no warriors attacked that city. They declared war just when I was about to get Legions. Upgraded one warrior without the 50% discount, and it killed 2-3 warriors/archers/charriots. Now in my cities only Legions I build. I send them to the front, the AI has no walls, I take its cities. Finally I sign a peace treaty because I'm low in gold and I don't need this last city which anyway is not on the way of my next victim. Next victim is Montezuma. He took a city state with walls (he had catapults). He manages to build walls at light speed, I declare and now have man-at-arms. I surround his city and wait for a mere... battering ram. Gave me time to kill his units. I liberate the city state, go for other walled cities, He now has trebuchets but it doesn't help him much. I think I'm gonna win this one too. God, things are so EASY to miss when you play like a player-du-dimanche ! But, I got luck too I guess. Or maybe I just took care more ? I don't know. In between I guess.
All this to say that there are special attention to dedicate to the Deity game. Like a player-du-dimanche, I can win Immortal easily. Not Deity. Oh, and I have to conquer all those campuses too ! Funnily enough my ennemies just have warriors lol. So I guess I got lucky after all.
As to Civ4, I got interested in multiplayer, some games looked like a frenetic RTS, and I was good some times ! The early game was so good. Alas, past it, It became a stack of doom stare. (stack of doom staring at each others, because no one wanted to come close and be "sieged" first) It's even more a problem with 1UPT, with you know, silmutaneous turns, it's the-one-who-clicks-first who wins. Ridiculous. There should not be silmutaneous turns, except in peace. (exactly what does the other mode, but no one likes it
) Never got too interested by Civ4 solo though. Culture mechanics were too hindering in late game. Ridiculous !
One more thing that made me interested in civilization is also seeing the prosperity of the civilization that you think you descended from done by someone whether its done by you or someone else...
Yeah... it's even better when you have your actual country in the game like I do ! Beat the crap out of England was a pleasure of fin gourmet in Civ2. That's basically why I want no uniques, and all civs possible, past and present with their city names and their real neighbours (as an option to activate or desactivate).