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Monoriu
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When I played civ1 and 2 I had no internet access and none of my friends played the game, so basically I had no one to talk to about the game.
After I came to this board I've seen a lot of people describe a lot of situations that I have never thought of before.
It maybe interesting to start a thread of playstyle. Not really strategies, just playing style.
I'll start.
-I like to play in the most difficult settings. However, I usually play a game at the mid-settings first to learn about game mechanics before I progress.
-I micro-manage everything. I never use automated workers, governors, and I never leave the science rate untouched for longer than 2-3 turns. I check and adjust the city production and tile workings of each and every one of my cities every few turns. It takes me a loooong time to finish one game.
-My civ games always follow the patten: rapid early expansion - full and complete economic and science development - build up huge army - destroy the world in one battle.
-I don't start a war unless I am 200% sure I'll win. I always overkill. In my last game I made 160 infantry and 40 atrillery, blocked off all my borders with a solid wall of infantry sitting on forts at all the borders before I start my first war and that's on Monarch level.
-I don't use fancy stuff, like privateers, espionage, AI allies, pillaging roads to block off someone, paradrops, etc. When I fight, its a cautious, systemmatic, step-by-step, frontal assult with huge numbers of solidly packed conventional type units and at the same time there is a wall of soldiers defending every tile of my border so no counterattacks can get through.
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Chow Yun Fat
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Hong Kong, China
Feb 2000
time: 05:16
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My playing style is nearly the same as yours before I try multi-player Civ 2. It's not bad. But it won't survive the aggressive assaults of human players. In addition, micro-manage everything takes huge amount of time. It could be enjoyable to get the max. benefit in single player game. But not in multi-player game.
Back to single-player stuff, I expand a lot in the initial phase. But I start getting cheap improvements like temple, barracks, granaries at about 10 cities. I do a lot of tech trade. I usually only spearhead on military research from middle-age onwards.
PS. I've read one other thread from you. I think you should know that Civ 3 is out in Hong Kong already.
(Edited: I've posted the thread which contains HK release info in a Private message to you, don't wanna post irrelevant message to spoil this good thread)
Last edited by Chow Yun Fat on 15-11-2001 at 13:07
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Enigma
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Midland, MI, USA
Feb 2000
time: 05:16
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I like playing on high difficulty levels, rapid early expansion, then my strategy varies according to where I am. The AI's build bonuses means that you need more land than they have to outbuild them, and the easiest way of doing that is conquering them.
I do small strategic assaults to get resources some times, but rely mainly on overkill.
I like having a huge number of units stacked in one square, and I like using a lot of armies.
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15-11-2001 12:08
and ive been saving and loading this game for 4 days now... maybe 3-4 hours of play a day
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