did anyone beat deity?

[Darth Sidious]

normal map, 8 players all terain stuff on average.

civ2 deity was piece of cake, seems hard in civ3 though

If you beaten it, please gime some advice.

I kinda just started (2000 BC or so now) and while i have 6 cities, the AI have about 10 eacht, they also have 4-6 more techs than i.

What is the solution to this?
-getting contact with everyone asap to trade tech?
-trying to beat one when i find iron to make him give me tech?
-something else.

Also, what do you think is the best tribe to play. I have the french now, since i think the double worker speed is extremely strong in early game and i hope commercial can do something against the horrible corruption.
(I also chose my opponents so that none is expansionist and grabs all bonus villages which for some reason always gives them tech but give me barbarians)

[GodSpawn]

Lots of people have done it. Look in the /strategy forum, there's lot's of strategy guides for deity!

[Ecthy]

I'm actually still playing on Prince, have never even tried Monarch. After finishing another few Prince games I shall try Monarch though. I just need to learn to cope with bad starting locations better