What is the highest difficulty level you have won? (With Poll)

[CliftonBazaar]

I know this thread has been done before but it didn't have a poll (which I thought it really needed).

later I will also make another poll on what level you usually play.

I have got the game out on Diety level; I did a lot of research before I got it though

 

[Clovis]

I've beaten Warlord, but that was in Civ2.

 

[feldmarshall]

i play at warlord. I usually win a space race by myself, or when i dont have a good start, I'll be nice to a strong AI and form a permanent alliance later

 

[King Flevance]

I have only beaten Monarch. I have attempted Emporer quite a few times but I honestly do not know if I have beaten one on it yet. I know I have beaten Monarch. I have a deity game I am working on but I haven't played it recently. I am convinced I can get a cultural victory on it. But anyways, I only play on huge maps and wont turn off the barbs (Mostly I keep them on raging) so that makes every step up a lot more challenging. But I like my settings more than the ability to say what level I have beat the game on.

 

[Blaarg]

So who picked Settler? Fess up!

 

[Love]

Chieftain thats me

 

[Galileo44]

I have won several times on Emperor, in vanilla and Warlords. I think that a way for people to get to a higher difficulty is choose a long game speed and a civ with a rushing UU (Rome, Persia). Then again, I don't understand the people who obsess about beating a certain diffuculty level. I think that the point of playing is to have fun, not to win against a certain level.

 

[Mehmed100]

I've beaten Prince using Immortals! It was too easy!

 

[LuckyAC]

For me, being able to beat a diffiiculty means being able to win at least two difference victory types (conquest and domination are interchangeable) on random settings, which means I have beaten Emperor. i have beaten Deity on gimmick settings with conquest, but that doesn't count. I can only beat Immortal with Cultural atm, although I actually haven't tried any others, since my current computer can't play the game.

 

[CliftonBazaar]

So who picked Settler? Fess up!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=3632162&postcount=210

Dont' beleive it though; I would consider them one of the best 5 players of civ4

 

[Galileo44]

What Moonsinger is saying is that they have never finished a game on Settler. They have obviously won on levels higher than that.

 

[The-Hawk]

Deity for me.

It would also be interesting to know if everyone would answer the same for Warlords as Vanilla. I've only played Warlords a handful of times, finding it harder to consistently beat it at higher level. I think only one deity win on warlords, and that was a future era space race.

BTW, I can guarantee Moonsinger has won above Settler. She owns the warmonger rows of the Deity HOF table. I agree with CliftonBazaar, she is obviously one of the elite CIV players in the world.

 

[warezfan]

I won at prince level before. Hard to finish games, always get bored and start a new game.

 

[jeff744]

especially settler games, i don't think i've ever actually finished a game on settler before, too boring

 

[CliftonBazaar]

Settler level is for trying new experiments without the fear of an overpowered AI invading; finishing games in BC is the real challenge

 

[stealingjoy]

I bought Civ4 about a week ago. I had played Civ3 a decent amount so I started on Warlord and was so handily winning that I stopped playing. So I decided to jump up to Prince and am slightly shocked that I'm going to win this one as well. I am playing on an island map which might distort things some, but Russia and I were the other civs to share an island so I had to deal with her (thankfully I founded cities that helped cut off her settle choices) and because of her cultural ocean blockade and my tech choices, I didn't start trading with other civs until significantly later than usual. So, despite those problems, after I overcame Russia, I'm definitely the real power. I only wish naval warfare was more pronounced. Next game I'm going to be German or England on a land map and I might just bump it up to Monarch... haven't decided yet.

Overall, I'm surprised I've done so well because I remember the "even" difficulty on Civ3 (Monarch, I think it was) could give me fits at times. I really liked most of the changes to this version of the game (I thought I'd hate not having seperate strength/defense numbers but it's actually worked out well).

 

[tycoonist]

stealingjoy... try beating prince with random settings ie. no map type, leader, civ, climate or sea level... thats what im trying to do but im stuck on aztecs.

 

[CliftonBazaar]

I have played Civ4 a lot (well over 300 hours) and I could never go back to Civ3 even though it was a great game.

Random settings can make the game more interesting, rarely have I had a start that was unplayable.