30-11-2000 00:40									#1
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Yesterday I started a game on Impossible level, 8 civs, raging hordes of barbarians, as the australians on the earth map.

Before year 0 I had eliminated one competitor (Israel), beaten two others into submission (One of them has one city in England, the other two cities in africa left). I'm currently wiping out the greeks, and the only other poswer in the mainland is russia, who is sitting meekly while I amass my 12 cannons.

I just entered the Age of Reason, and am cranking out ships of the line, cannons and cavalry. My closest competitor, the americans, tried to fight my ships of the line with longboats... I have all wonders but one (Appian highway), I have more than twice the population of any competior, and my powergraph is about twice as high as any other...

I don't really feel the need to continue this game, I have it won...

So, do you conceede that the AI is way to easy?

	30-11-2000 01:50									#2
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are you sure it was on impossible? cause the world map as it comes in the game defaults to medium whatever your do

	30-11-2000 02:42									#4
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I don't know whether I actually have it on highest... After I choose the map it gave me a choice of level and barbarian activity. Do you mean that even though I choose 'impossible' it gave me medium? Is there a way I can check what setting I'm on?

As far as I know, the key to the game is to immediately go on the offensive. The computer is a horrible defender, and an even worse attacker. Actually, I've never seen a counterattack... So as long as you keep it off balance, you have no problems.



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	30-11-2000 08:14									#6
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Now this is rather comical. It appears that CHOOSING the difficulty you want to play is more difficult than the actual play.

	30-11-2000 21:29									#7
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Mark, thanks, I'll try that!

Funny though... I couldn't feel any difference in game play, except perhaps that my neighbours research was surprisingly slow...

Chronos,



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	01-12-2000 02:35									#9
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Now how can you set the maps to impossible??? There's a button in the scenario editor, but I'm hearing that it doesn't work. Please correct me if I am wrong.

	01-12-2000 12:29									#10
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what i did was this
- start a game with the world map
- go to the editor
- save the map
- exit the game
- in the new game screen, select "gigantic" and "impossible" and click the "launch editor" button
- load the map you saved
- place starting locations for each civ
- save as scenario

	01-12-2000 19:03									#11
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It's a lot easier to enter the level in civ2 (1996 game)! Markos some of us are not gearheads.

BTW, using the world map is a kinda cheat. It's harder if you use a random map.

	01-12-2000 19:29									#12
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GP, the above is a way to overcome a bug, not a standard feature....