Post by zzZhenon on Nov 9, 2005 13:43:35 GMT -5
This thread is for you to post your favorite aspects/ settings. I'll start:
In SP --
World Type: Inland Sea
World Size: Tiny
Sea Level: Low
Age Start: Classical
#Players: 6
Difficulty: Monarch
SpaceRace Victoy: OFF
Diplomatic Victory: OFF
No Tech Trading
With these settings you'll have no more than two close neighbors. On these smaller maps with less water and more land, you'll experience less lag and memory problems. Monarch level is amazingly difficult, I usually seem to fall behind in techs even with the Oracle.... and if I go to liberalism and education right off the bat, I'll get slaughtered by AI cavalry.
Btw, Classical starts are MUCH more fun, imo, than ancient starts. In C IV, researching those basic techs is very tedious. Persia and 'gyp start out with the ability to build their UU (if they have horsies) and Rome is only 1 tech from building the almighty Praetorians. You also get 1 worker, 1 scout, and 1 archer -- Hooray!
The easiest way that I've found to beat the AI, or to at least get an early lead, is to start with an early UU civ. Take a couple of cities from both your neighbors... but not at the same time, unless you're extremely lucky/skilled. Make peace with the guy you took a city from, then go take a city from the other neighbor. I wouldn't recommend expanding much more than that until you get several cottages built. You're likely to go broke, even if you got a couple hundred from conquering cities. From my experience, they didn't just fix ICS, they went to the extreme other end of it. The more you expand, the more broke you become. I need to learn the right balance of cottage per city ratio
Anywho... I'll post my MP favorite settings after I get my new computer and am able to play more. Atm, I've only played a handful of MP games.
In SP --
World Type: Inland Sea
World Size: Tiny
Sea Level: Low
Age Start: Classical
#Players: 6
Difficulty: Monarch
SpaceRace Victoy: OFF
Diplomatic Victory: OFF
No Tech Trading
With these settings you'll have no more than two close neighbors. On these smaller maps with less water and more land, you'll experience less lag and memory problems. Monarch level is amazingly difficult, I usually seem to fall behind in techs even with the Oracle.... and if I go to liberalism and education right off the bat, I'll get slaughtered by AI cavalry.
Btw, Classical starts are MUCH more fun, imo, than ancient starts. In C IV, researching those basic techs is very tedious. Persia and 'gyp start out with the ability to build their UU (if they have horsies) and Rome is only 1 tech from building the almighty Praetorians. You also get 1 worker, 1 scout, and 1 archer -- Hooray!
The easiest way that I've found to beat the AI, or to at least get an early lead, is to start with an early UU civ. Take a couple of cities from both your neighbors... but not at the same time, unless you're extremely lucky/skilled. Make peace with the guy you took a city from, then go take a city from the other neighbor. I wouldn't recommend expanding much more than that until you get several cottages built. You're likely to go broke, even if you got a couple hundred from conquering cities. From my experience, they didn't just fix ICS, they went to the extreme other end of it. The more you expand, the more broke you become. I need to learn the right balance of cottage per city ratio
Anywho... I'll post my MP favorite settings after I get my new computer and am able to play more. Atm, I've only played a handful of MP games.