on wich dificulti you play

BulMaster · October 2, 2002, 11:56

I dunno for you guys but i was wondering on wich dificulti you were plaing the game and how do you keep up woth techs. I play on monarch and the AI just goes ahead of me in ages also i dont get how in come that in 120AD he enter the industrial age and im just in the beggining of the Middle age lol can anyone help

Dalai Lama · October 2, 2002, 12:03

Deity... nothing else. The key is constant tech trading and brokering. I easily find myself sometimes an age behind, but somehow, I always manage to come back around industrial age. Check the strategy forums...

zeh · October 2, 2002, 12:05

I think its because the intensive AI tech trading. They tend do that a lot and, for your safe, it's better you do the same with them, cause is almost impossible just research alone without trade tech and stay ahead in tech race, at least on more dificult levels.
The rate of AI tech trade is exposed in editor with patch v1.29, you can lower it, but i think you should try to be more diplomatic as you can, trading techs with them.

BulMaster · October 2, 2002, 12:25

Well i play on huge maps and don't know the AI aways manages to find them selves before i can find them. Well guess i have to start a new game then AGAIN

Theseus · October 2, 2002, 12:30

Emperor.

BulMaster, check out this thread:

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=58720

Tiberius · October 2, 2002, 12:46

Monarch.

I'm usually slightly behind the AI in the tech race, but generally only until the industrial age. Until then I build on culture and try to flip cities. After entering the industrial age I focus on production and military, and then try to start some puppet wars. Sometimes, because of this, the most powerful civ is the first that gets eliminated!

BulMaster · October 2, 2002, 12:58

Great thread Theseus i will consider using some of those ideas. Still i think the game needs more realistic adjustments!!! Like i read somwhere that an AI sended a starship in 1500 AD no comment on that

Well i will hope to play one versus you guys when PTW is out !!!!

vmxa1 · October 2, 2002, 13:23

Last three games have been on Emp/Deity, but I prefer Monarch.

Ethelred · October 2, 2002, 13:58

Monarch and Emperor.

I played up to Emperor as a builder/opportunist. Since 1.29f I been going the warmonger route for a change. I just started my first game on emperor as a warmonger. Playing the Chinese as I did with my previous game on Monarch. Those Riders sure are better than knights.

You might want to try playing with accelerated production turned off. That is the most likely reason that tech is going so fast in your game. My bet is you are also not using your workers as well as you need to keep up with the AI now that you are playing with a handicap. Don't automate your workers till late in the game. The workers will go around irritating far more of the grasslands than is good. Those tiles need mines for production not irrigation which will drive your population up faster than you can manage happiness in many cases. Maybe you can get away with that with accelerated production turned on, haven't tried it because it distorts the time scale.

If you have your cities under the control of the the governors that too will hurt. After all the AI is using the governors and has a production advantage. You have to use YOUR brains not the AI's if your going to beat the AI while you have a handicap. Only you can know what your long term plans are and its long term thinking that is your biggest adavantage over the AI besides using the workers better.

Nikolai · October 2, 2002, 16:41

I feel bad...

I was always at Prince level in Civ1 and 2, but in Civ3, I have mostly played at Warlord.

It's getting a bit too easy, but I have had problems with adjusting me to Regent difficulity.

I don't know what's wrong... Any advise to give?

Oh, I feel really novice...

Nikolai · October 2, 2002, 16:44

BTW, I'm usually a peaceful builder, if I don't have to go to war for keeping my place in the world.

Bella Hella · October 2, 2002, 16:45

i play at monarch all the time now. after i actually complete a few games with really bad starting locations and feel confident in my abilities, i will move up to emperor.

N. Machiavelli · October 2, 2002, 17:02

Diety mostly, Emperor occasionally. Keep up in techs via conquest/exploitation.

alva · October 2, 2002, 17:52

Emperor with a few self imposed rules
no arty,
no razing,..

Nikolai: post a save-game and let us have a look at it
(somewere in the middleages if possible)

Kingof the Apes · October 2, 2002, 18:39

I play monarch.
Before moving up to emperor I am trying to beat monarch with all 16 civs.

Nikolai · October 3, 2002, 07:53

Alva: A screenshot of a game of Regent difficulity or Warlord? Sorry if I'm a bit slow, I haven't had much sleep tonight...

alva · October 3, 2002, 09:47

no, a save game

(open your civ3 folder go to the save games folder, open and copy your most recent save(usualy named something like Caesar blabla 950 AD.sav).

then make a new post in this thread and attach the file
(make sure it isn't bigger then 500KB)
iF possible your most recent game, around 1000ad should be ok

Jawa Jocky · October 3, 2002, 09:59

Emperor/Deity

I'm still trying to get that 1st Deity win. It would be nice if I could play more than 2-3 hours a week.

I'm behind from the start until I build TOE then I become a tech leader.

Ren · October 3, 2002, 10:24

Chieftain, I'm a Civ 3 newbie (vet Civ 2 player though, Emperor on that)

Nikolai · October 3, 2002, 10:46

That's OK!

I really meant save, but that just proves that I'm tired...

My most recent game is a Warlord one, and I won, with a lead for most of the game. I guess you would want a Regent game also, but I have just cleared the save directory, so I have just my most recent one.

Anyway, I'll attach it!

BulMaster · October 3, 2002, 10:50

Lol well here is my save if anyone is interested in to check it.
I'm not giving any explainations on it cause you will see it !!!!

Just this i had a desatrous change to republic so i had to reduce my science to 30% but it's going up

Knightblade pDM · October 3, 2002, 21:22

I was on Regent, but after reading some articles I went back to Warlord to try a few things out. I have many games going on at once, and have half on Regent, half on warlord. Just finished a game via Diplo on Warlord with France, so I'll go back to Regent now

MosesPresley · October 3, 2002, 22:04

I play on monarch now and I am moving steadily towards my first victory on that level.

I uninstalled Civ3 and then reloaded. I started a new game. I built the pyramids and I thought, hey that's unusual, but not too much so. Then I built the colossus. I was thinking, now that is strange, I have built two wonders and the AI hasn't built anything, I must be doing pretty well. Then I built the lighthouse, that is when I realized that I was playing on chieftan. By uninstalling the game, I had reset the levels without noticing.

wervdon · October 4, 2002, 01:51

Heh complicated question

Actually, Ive been playing on a modified difficulty: Same settings as regent except 100% ai trade rate and diety level happiness. Ive found after following the democracy game that the lower happiness is actually more fun since it makes happiness improvements and luxuries (especially luxuries) much more valuable

Without mods though I was playing on Regent for fun and Monarch for score. Highest, Ive won at is Monarch. Highest I've tried is emperor.

vondrack · October 4, 2002, 03:38

I started my first Civ3 game on Regent, because that was the difficulty I used to play Civ2 on... and I was too stubborn to let myself step down to Warlord. What a fool I was... I kept being beaten in a game after game... Well, I did get the grasp of the game eventually and - with the invaluable help of 'Poly - mastered it to the degree that Regent games were no longer a challenge for me (so I play on Monarch now).

If there are any newbies reading this: Regent is a bit too much to start on. Play your first game on Chieftain (just to get accustomed to the interface and such) and then immediately move up to Warlord... or start on Warlord right away... you will save yourself a LOT of disappointment. Also, you will be much more likely to eventually love the game.

Raion · October 4, 2002, 17:21

Micromanagement helps, but it is more work to adjust the tax rate and science rate all the time, when getting near end of tech finding, (get more money, so science can be lowered if only a few turns left in finding the tech working on.

Playing on Regent, but have not had the time to really play.
Played Civ II on King, I think, or was that the scenarios.
Well, keep playing and trying different things out, and if nothing else, try something else that may not help.

Start a war, or something.

See the small left map. Bam, Bam, Bam on the cities with the mouse, seeing if they center on the large map for a direct hit or a near hit. Bam, bam, bam, well, its something else to do with the mouse.

Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam, Xerxes, on your cities. Bam, bam, bam. Just don't get a score for that first person shooter scenario.