Am I the only person who finds barbarians too much of a problem on higher difficulties? (Monarch up)
I always seem to end up stuck inside my first city with a constant stream of barbarians throwing themselves on my walls as I slowly try to build enough of a force up to get a settler to a second city location. Building improvements is impossible; on any gven turn there will be 4 to 8 enemy units within my borders. The AI also gets hit hard, with it being common to see their civilizations fall early in the game despite their huge anti-barbarian bonuses.
My current fix has been to edit CIV4HandicapInfo.xml to put barbarians back to regular civ4 BTS levels, since playing with no barbarians makes for a rather dull early game. I'm curious how other people find this problem; do you just live with it, or play on a lower difficulty where things are more manageable?
[edit] Just found http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=274825 , where this is already being discussed
I always seem to end up stuck inside my first city with a constant stream of barbarians throwing themselves on my walls as I slowly try to build enough of a force up to get a settler to a second city location. Building improvements is impossible; on any gven turn there will be 4 to 8 enemy units within my borders. The AI also gets hit hard, with it being common to see their civilizations fall early in the game despite their huge anti-barbarian bonuses.
My current fix has been to edit CIV4HandicapInfo.xml to put barbarians back to regular civ4 BTS levels, since playing with no barbarians makes for a rather dull early game. I'm curious how other people find this problem; do you just live with it, or play on a lower difficulty where things are more manageable?
[edit] Just found http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=274825 , where this is already being discussed