Who plays earth?

[Boleslav]

I also used to play on Earth as China. Matrix is right about the advantage all that fertile land gives you, I would also add a couple of other points in China's favour:

(1) Surrounding the fertile land is a swathe of terrain that gives units strong defense possibilities - mountain ranges, the Gobi desert, etc.

(2) Because we already know the map, we know the islands off Asia. So the whole of Australasia is inevitably Chinese under a human player.

(3) The Mongols are placed in Central Asia instead of Mongolia (!) and are thus not the pressing threat they could otherwise have been.

I learned to play Civ1 as a builder first, so another favourite option of mine was to be the Aztecs alone in the Americas...

I've NEVER played as England on a Civ1 world map though, what's a game like as them?

 

[Andy6474b]

Chinas quite a good spot. Used to be my favourite to play, though one faces a lot of anoyances from all those tiresome westeners (esp the darn Zulus!).

Recently Ive taken to starting as the Indians, building one coastal city and shipping my second settler off to Java or Australia. Soon as I can move the palace I do so , and then let the barbs eliminate the mainland city. Its good fun playing from those small islands there. Its ages before anyone comes to bother you.

 

[Marx]

I've played most of my games on 'earth'. Nice map Very Huge Landmass,.

 

[Marx]

Originally posted by Boleslav
I also used to play on Earth as China. Matrix is right about the advantage all that fertile land gives you, I would also add a couple of other points in China's favour:

(1) Surrounding the fertile land is a swathe of terrain that gives units strong defense possibilities - mountain ranges, the Gobi desert, etc.

(2) Because we already know the map, we know the islands off Asia. So the whole of Australasia is inevitably Chinese under a human player.

(3) The Mongols are placed in Central Asia instead of Mongolia (!) and are thus not the pressing threat they could otherwise have been.

I learned to play Civ1 as a builder first, so another favourite option of mine was to be the Aztecs alone in the Americas...

I've NEVER played as England on a Civ1 world map though, what's a game like as them?

I like to play with the English Civilization. Try to play on Warlord or Prince and start conquering the world at 2000 AD. You always can try it harder.

 

[kalafat]

The best place to begin with is Europe. You may easily contact many tribes to exchance knowledge and then conquer them with a single chivalry.

 

[filmic10]

There is just something about Earth mode that I always liked. I more often play Civ 3 now, but when i go back to 1, it's Earth mode [dance]

 

[Chemist]

It's been so long since I played Civ I. Started back in 1991 I think. Liked to play Earth but remember the brutal England starts and Europe struggle.

My most memorable game EVER was my first Emperor win in CIV I playing in the Americas on an Earth map. I remember coming over to Eurasia with TANKS and smashing the Greeks. The computer would pop up with little messages saying my army was too large and it wouldn't allow new tanks after a certain point.

I currently play C3C and am having trouble on Monarch. Bad habits, maybe, but I have little excuse after all these years to struggle so much.

 

[Fox Mccloud]

Earth Map is fun, because I conquer the world!! Ha Ha Ha!!!

 

[billyjeanray]

I play earth because i usually get stuck on a crappy island when I play terraforming. Also, I can't search for places with as good of resources around a city.

 

[Ramius75]

I played Earth so that i can conquer America, kick Mr Lincoln's ass

Ramius

 

[Brainly]

Otherwise I like terraforming especially when it has loads and loads of small islands. The thing I don't like is that the civilizations are not supposed to be in the places (or even a planet like that) like they are in terraformed maps. I'm a perfectionist, as you can see

I like earth, because then I can dominate the whole world... And I can even have some historical likeness.

 

[Licentia]

I've NEVER played as England on a Civ1 world map though, what's a game like as them?[/QUOTE]

I love playing as England! I just stay on that land mass and build the 2 cities there, and then get Colosuss and just concentrate on science. I only build 1 phalanx in each city and just put all my cash into science. I just like to see how far advanced I get before the computer comes by and starts attacking. I think I won the space race that way, only 1 time though, and it was as small a ship as I could build (without cheating).

I like playing on Earth because that way I know where to take my Caravans. Otherwise you are hunting all over. It helps to know where to take your caravans since the computer automatically gets their caravans taken to the best cities. Take your caravans to Boston and New York and the aztec cities. That's good trade! Never take your caravans to Washington or Tenochtitlan because the computer puts out too many units from it's capitals and they starve because of rebellion.

Also, yes it is historical. I know too where i'm going to start so I know what kind of game it's going to be.

Sometimes I just play as rome and not talk to my neighbours. If I develop the land around rome then the computer can't walk on it and therefore can't talk to me to pick a fight. Then I sail my Caravans to China who can't walk through to Rome because of other nations being in the way, so if they want to fight (which they always do) then they can't do anything to me. Those games go fast, and then if I want I conquer the whole world after I've got all my advances I can do it pretty easily. No one accused the AI in Civilization 1 to be very good.

 

[Godwynn]

I always play on Earth. I like having my Greek Empire stretch from modern-day Great Britain, to India, and it is easier to describe in size.

 

[eq1]

My first win on emperor was on earth and playing as china - I popped something like 6 cities from nearby huts - after that, though, there wasn't much of a challenge.

On a seperate occasion, also on earth with the chinese, I landed a few chariots on the america's to find that the aztecs had NO units in any of their cities. That also wasn't much of a challenge. Has any one else had that happen ?

 

[stormbind]

With an Earth map you automatically wipe out the exploration issues which play a big part in history.

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Yep. There's lots of fertile land around you and enemies are very far away. The first you will encounter are the Indians or the Mongols. So you'll have a great opportunity to expand real fast before you have to start thinking about warfare.

As China you always have to move your settler, either south or south to have a good start. Notice, the start position for China means that the Chinese A.I so very often never grew beyond one city!!!

For easy, try Rome or Germany as so very often there is Romans or Germanys (vice versa) and the get two settlers so a city of two is built by the A.I. If you are Rome or Germany and have got two settlers then you can take either Rome or Berlin and so have two cities AND a settler in the early years

Though if this sounds hard be the Zulus and have little or no bother from enemy civs for ages

 

[penvzila]

I'm getting to the point where I;ve got virtually all of my city locations planned out even before the first turn, so nowaday's I've started playing random maps. I just got back into CivI after playing civ2 and 3 for a long time, but I like having something simpler and less time consuming, and it brings back memories of the first time I ever played a computer game...

 

[penvzila]

...I was the English and just obliged myself not to expand in areas where the English didn't go in real history...

Where are those areas?

 

[Tenochtitlan]

I hate EARTH mode

 

[NP300]

I liked to play Earth maps on Civ I and II because the random maps were just so unrealistic. The continents were unrealistic. The geography was unrealistic with deserts, mountains and jungles all within a city's radius.

Seems like they have improved this with Civ III so I may start playing the random map more often.