What difficulty level are you stuck at?

[The Lardossen]

I was wondering what level is the challenge for most players out here. I'm still stuck at Emperor, winning some games, but losing / abandoning more. Seems that being on a continent with other civilizations an early rush makes or breaks the game every time.

 

[W1ld Weasel]

I play very large pangea maps with at least 11 civs only and still try to win a game at Prince level

 

[BrutalusMaximus]

Larger makes the game harder as does having more Civs.

 

[greentea]

Depends on the map. Under standard conditions, Prince is ok. But if I play all random it can be very challenging.

 

[Jorunkun]

Made the (pretty steep, imho) transition from Monarch to Emperor around Christmas and expect to stay there for some time. While I have played a few games on Immortal and Deity, I didn´t find them very enjoyable as you can wind up with unwinnable games through no fault of your own.

 

[suspendinlight]

I play standard maps with 18 civs and some custom rules. I almost always win at Prince, but I'm always just in the top-middle of the pack on Monarch. It's tough to break out with so many civs. The fact that the AIs start with two settlers and archers makes a axeman/chariot early war very difficult...

 

[Drofd]

I just can't get past noble

 

[automator]

I can't say I'm "stuck" yet. I've won the last two Noble games (space and diplo), and before that had finally nailed Warlord. I think I'm playing one more Noble game before giving a shot at Prince.

 

[Mad2rix]

The Monarch difficulty seems moderately challenging to me. No matter how I crush other neighbors, there's always other civ who research a lot of technologies and possibly bring doom to my civ if outnumbered and have stronger military.

 

[jaythewise]

Beyond emp, the unhappyness and disease mods tend to get stupid...

 

[Zombie69]

Beyond emperor, they're the same as they are at emperor...

Personally, the first level where i lost the game was emperor. It was also the only level where i've played more than 2 games. I found it pretty challenging the first 4 or 5 games i played. I think i'll move to Immortal next game i play.

 

[Archbob]

I'm stuck on huge epic game on prince. The games are so much easier on a smaller map.

 

[Moonsinger]

I'm currently stuck on the Settler level. For some reasons, I was unable to avoid the domination win. Building an ermpire that can withstand the test of time is much more difficult than I thought.

 

[itkovian]

I'm not 'stcuk', but I don't feel as if I have mastered Monarch yet...

I still lose some and occasionally I'm at a loss how to start most efficiently...I guess I'm still just learning at Monarch. Once I feel I have it under control(better than 75% win rate) then I'll move on to Emperor.

 

[jaythewise]

Try a tiny with 2 AI on immortal its doable. Just attack, attack.

 

[Archbob]

Try a tiny with 2 AI on immortal its doable. Just attack, attack.

Thats not a real game. Thats just "oh lets see if the random number generator favors me".

Larger maps are always much, much harder to win on.

I can beat Deity on tiny or duel-sized maps because all you do is chop rush units.

 

[jaythewise]

Thats not a real game. Thats just "oh lets see if the random number generator favors me".

Larger maps are always much, much harder to win on.

I can beat Deity on tiny or duel-sized maps because all you do is chop rush units.

well gee wheez he was wondering how to beat a high level game, might be a good way to start

 

[Archbob]

Yep, and then you find out that strategy doesn't work for anything except duel or tiny pangea maps.

 

[jaythewise]

Pure Attack seems to work pretty damm well on epic prince VS 9 AI, imo

monarch, I have had less success on the big maps and beyond that it gets stupid.

But if you want the huge score do the tiny deity

 

[ainwood]

I'm currently stuck on the Settler level. For some reasons, I was unable to avoid the domination win. Building an ermpire that can withstand the test of time is much more difficult than I thought.

Yeah - but that's probably because you got bored with deity

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