What level are people playing???

[AdonisFigure]

Lucky,

Without either Industrial or Religious civ strengths, have you competed well in Deity? For instance with Rome or Greece or England?

Industrial gives the obvious worker bonus which allows your cities to grow and produce at higher rates, and religion allows for cheaper culture and also to avoid lengthy (and highly costly) government switches.

India, France, Egypt, Japan, China, Persia... there are certainly enough civs with one of these two traits or neither, but I've struggled heavily without these two.

Am I simply limiting myself in playing style? What do you think?

 

[Superevie]

It's really cool because when I came here in August I played exclusively Chieftain. Now, all of two months later, I can play well at regent. Too bad I couldn't vote again.

 

[Sarevok]

Diety, cant wait to try out sid in c3:C

 

[Lucky.Me]

Reading Bamspeedy's article on the 4 turn settler factory helped my game immensely. Basically, it explains with a granary and 5 surplus food you can do just that, produce a settler every 4 turns, more than rivaling the expansion pace of the AI on deity. I'm pretty sure you can find it in his sig.

I've been playing on huge pangaeas with the maximum number of opponents, and have recently modded a slightly larger map to play all 24 civs. I've little experience with archipelagos, which i imagine would make the game quite a bit more difficult. I'm currently playing my first game on continents in quite awhile as the mongols. I decided i had become spoiled with Egypt, Persia, Iroquois and the like and have played my last two games with the Romans and Mongols. Didn't have much difficulty with either one of them.

I haven't had much trouble keeping up in tech. I find that buying map making early and trading it to the smaller civs for missed techs and world maps brings me to parity relatively cheaply, and gives me a completed map to boot. Once i'm caught up to this point, its just the same old boring tech brokering from there.

I find scientific to be the best trait at deity level. Free techs equate to gold, which buys just about everything. Techs, maps, shields (and consequently units and improvements), alliances, etc. Imo Religious takes a back seat by minimizing periods of anarchy. The only government i ever switch to is republic. The difference between democracy and republic is so miniscule that you'll never make up the lost production from the extra period of anarchy. Also, with a modest amount of luxuries i've been able to fight wars spanning several centuries with minimal war weariness. I'd have been crippled in democracy.


Been rambling awhile, hope this makes sense.
But really, i guess it all just depends on a solid start and being able to maintain equal footing with the AI in the early game. It will take awhile for your score to recover due to the extra units the AI recieves, but you'll find yourself at unit and tech parity, and of similar current power to even the largest civs on the histrograph.

 

[greekmaniac]

i play cheiftain or warlord. i tried regent once, but that game got boring!

 

[King Alexander]

Hi there, all CivFanatics! I played Chieftain for a long time(since I want to own everything), but it is time to move on, I guess. It's still fun when I've captured a city with a Great Wonder. But the real reason I couldn't perform well on Regent and above, is that I've never payed attention on the strategic value of every one tile and the sequence which I would work with my worker, although I discovered by experimenting (cruelly, sometimes) almost all of the war tactics that are at the War Academy. This site has GREAT info to provide, so I became a member.

 

[Bouddica]

I want to smash peoples faces, so I play chieftain. Why let them bully me if I can bully them?

 

[IglooDame]

I played Chieftain for maybe the past 6 months or so, beating the AIs earlier and earlier. Bumped up to Regent a month or so ago, and (thanks in large part to the War Academy and other helpful info on CFC) am finding it not so much of a challenge any more. I'll probably start with a Monarch game when my copy of C3C shows up - now that naval and air combat is interesting I want to get into Modern Era wars all the more on big archipelago maps.

 

[Zorbop]

I always win with emperor. I never win at diety.

 

[Lynx]

Diety now, soon.... Sid.

 

[rnada]

Originally posted by Zorbop
I always win with emperor. I never win at diety.

Me too. I've got the same problem. Emperor is challenging but in the end I win (after scientific methods I'm always the first).
In Diety I was never able to win. Not even 1 time

I'll try Semigod on C3C

 

[pgabion]

I am just a newbie... that's why I'm playing at the Chieftain first.

 

[hawai_74]

four months ago i was a ridiculous chieftain, today i'm still ridiculous but regent... great

 

[kokoras]

I was playing the Emperor level,but now with the new levels things have changed.Maybe it is my idea but i tried the Monarch in C3C and it i found it more dificult than before!There has been a thread for this matter so no point on saying more.
Maybe we must vote again in a few months(including of course the 2 new levels).

 

[kane77077]

I play regent ('cos I'm a WUSS and want a laid back, easy game.)

 

[Eastern Knight]

Man, after half a year I am still on chieftain! I did try a number of times on warlord but Joan d'Arc is just plain evil. (Don't be deceived by her looks). Oh yes, I havn't played it since October, really, no time.

 

[Strengefuhrer]

I'm a monarch person.
Tough enough that I don't squash the AI, easy enough so the game isn't unrealistic and so I don't have to use cheezy tactics.

 

[Tassadar]

Originally posted by DaDrunkenFish
I play on regent, its the fairest and most fun

Yes same here, i know i can win on emperor level, it happen, but most of the fun is on regent level. We can even use privateer for some time without beeig out-dated within 5 turn.

But i have to admit, when i reach industrial era, there is no competition and i have already technicaly win.

 

[Omni Mage]

I'm a Regent player. Everytime I go on Monarch I always fall way behind in the technology race. I can bairly keep up in Regent. I suppose I better practice.

 

[Nexushyper]

Regent, and as said before, that level has no human advantage, nor AI advantage, (Besides some hardcode ones like see the whole map, etc, which I think is fine since the A.I. can't think)