shadowdale
CFC Drunkard
I posting this new topic, because I read under the GotM thread that a guy had been so unlucky and lost the game - and not because I feel better then everybody els.
I don't know how many of you guy have lost Civ game - Well I think that most of us have tried to get whacked in the first few turns by a passing barbarian or another Civ. But how many have actually lost a real game??
I remember when I first got Civ1 on my Amiga 500, the first game I played was naturally on Chieftain, and I remember winning by launching my space ship. But I also remember that because I couldn't really see what the SS structural was good for I launched a ship that only had 35% chance of succeeding and took more than 50 year to get there.
But enough about my first game. For my second game I wanted to go up a level, to warlord, but I also wanted to know more about the game, so I loaded the save game that came with my copy, and looked real good at it. It was a warlord level game and there were five cities on a medium island and the year was 1000 AD. So I thought why not continues this game and I did - I never expanded outside my small island and therefore the Chinese overtook my in the tech race and eventually nukes me. I reloaded the game and try a new approach (expand) and I finally won the game after a very long and exhausting nuclear war.
That was my first and only time I ever played the Zulu's and that was also my first and last real nuclear war.
But the thing is, that since that game where I actually lost for real I have never ever lost a game of Civ!!! I have played both Civ1 and Civ2 on all levels and never ever been beaten since. And that makes it a bit weird for me to read about others how get beaten by the AI.
I must admit that I have only played some 10-15 multi player games so when I start on the ladder I'm probably going to get my *** kicked - but never the AI.
Could somebody please tell me if it is very common to get beaten by the AI?????
!sniper!
I don't know how many of you guy have lost Civ game - Well I think that most of us have tried to get whacked in the first few turns by a passing barbarian or another Civ. But how many have actually lost a real game??
I remember when I first got Civ1 on my Amiga 500, the first game I played was naturally on Chieftain, and I remember winning by launching my space ship. But I also remember that because I couldn't really see what the SS structural was good for I launched a ship that only had 35% chance of succeeding and took more than 50 year to get there.
But enough about my first game. For my second game I wanted to go up a level, to warlord, but I also wanted to know more about the game, so I loaded the save game that came with my copy, and looked real good at it. It was a warlord level game and there were five cities on a medium island and the year was 1000 AD. So I thought why not continues this game and I did - I never expanded outside my small island and therefore the Chinese overtook my in the tech race and eventually nukes me. I reloaded the game and try a new approach (expand) and I finally won the game after a very long and exhausting nuclear war.
That was my first and only time I ever played the Zulu's and that was also my first and last real nuclear war.
But the thing is, that since that game where I actually lost for real I have never ever lost a game of Civ!!! I have played both Civ1 and Civ2 on all levels and never ever been beaten since. And that makes it a bit weird for me to read about others how get beaten by the AI.
I must admit that I have only played some 10-15 multi player games so when I start on the ladder I'm probably going to get my *** kicked - but never the AI.
Could somebody please tell me if it is very common to get beaten by the AI?????
!sniper!
