Monthar
Deity
The only "cheating" they really bugs the hell out of me is the way the AI can out produce me all the time. Especially how badly the barbarians swarm in epic length games.
The barbarian swarms should have been toned done a bit in epic and marathon games such that they appear at a rate equal to how much longer it takes to build anything.
I can manage to hold off the barbarians without having to rebuild much of my improvemnts on normal speed and raging barbarians. However, normal barbarians on epic and marathon come at me so fast that I can't keep enough forces around to slow them down. Thus I quickly fall behind on the techs from all the improvement pillaging the barbaians do.
Oh, I've read about posting units out in the wilds to eliminate the fog of war. However, when I try to build enough units to do this I also end up falling far behind on research, because I'm not able to build the city and landscape improvemnts needed to keep up.
This GotM I had my best ever score, over 8K, and first win at this high a difficulty. I thought, "wow, I did pretty good". Then I saw how high others have been scoring and think, "man I suck" and "how the hell can they score 4 to 5 times higher than I did" Of course, most of those were domination or conquest wins, while mine was a diplomatic win. I guess diplomancy sucks.
The barbarian swarms should have been toned done a bit in epic and marathon games such that they appear at a rate equal to how much longer it takes to build anything.
I can manage to hold off the barbarians without having to rebuild much of my improvemnts on normal speed and raging barbarians. However, normal barbarians on epic and marathon come at me so fast that I can't keep enough forces around to slow them down. Thus I quickly fall behind on the techs from all the improvement pillaging the barbaians do.
Oh, I've read about posting units out in the wilds to eliminate the fog of war. However, when I try to build enough units to do this I also end up falling far behind on research, because I'm not able to build the city and landscape improvemnts needed to keep up.
This GotM I had my best ever score, over 8K, and first win at this high a difficulty. I thought, "wow, I did pretty good". Then I saw how high others have been scoring and think, "man I suck" and "how the hell can they score 4 to 5 times higher than I did" Of course, most of those were domination or conquest wins, while mine was a diplomatic win. I guess diplomancy sucks.