What difficulty level do you play?

[MrLeN]

I played my first game on medium to get the feel for it. I turned it off at around 500AD having felt that I knew what was going on. I am currently playing a net game with a personal friend of mine and a very good civ player. I have always played the hardest level and always will because I know that when I have won, I have "won" ) I am playing a single player game on the hardest level as well. Also I have full barbarians because they give me a reason to build some defences early in the game, otherwise 1 warrior would do the trick and that sux bigtime.

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It's better to close your mouth and let everyone 'think' you're stupid, than open it and let everyone 'know' you are.

[MrLeN]

I played my first game on medium to get the feel for it. I turned it off at around 500AD having felt that I knew what was going on. I am currently playing a net game with a personal friend of mine and a very good civ player. I have always played the hardest level and always will because I know that when I have won, I have "won" ) I am playing a single player game on the hardest level as well. Also I have full barbarians because they give me a reason to build some defences early in the game, otherwise 1 warrior would do the trick and that sux bigtime.

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It's better to close your mouth and let everyone 'think' you're stupid, than open it and let everyone 'know' you are.

[Quivering]

Just bought the game. Went home, played on hard. Built Hoplites and Archers and took a neighbouring civ. Noticed how much cheaper it is to take a computers city than making my onw so I started making Samurais, Slavers and Mounted Archers for fast whopping. Finally, my continent was empty and I discovered the ranking/score window. I see the secondbest is around 20% of my height so I quit.
Gonna play on a harder level now, dunno yet. I hate when the comp gets to cheat and i still beat them. Always thought the comp should be on equal terms but still be challenging

[Narmer]

Always play on impossible. That way you don't get used to playing against incompetent opponents, and you will fare better when you make the transition to multiplayer

[micrif]

The first two games I played were kinda boring, so all games after that I did on impossible. Still not that hard to beat the AI. The only chalange is multiplayer.