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Monoriu
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What difficulty do you play on?
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chiren
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Germany
Nov 2001
time: 06:16
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the one and only
-deity-
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Kolyana
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Currently playing Warlord. I'm giving the comp a run for it's money at the mo, so stepping up a notch in the next game or two is probably in order.
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MattHiggs
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I used to play Deity on Civ 2... but I am still learning Civ 3 so I am on Cheiftan until I start racking up some good scores. Then I'll progressivley move up as I learn moer and more about the game.
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Buckethead
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I played regent once and had such an easy win (was it luck, don't know... i guess not) that I won't play easier than monarch from now on.
So I've played a dozen games at monarch, but only trough the Middle Ages, since in my opinion, the rest of the game is no problem usually. I would say someone's better to work on improving his early game than his games' end. So I have to win yet at monarch, but I never ended a game either. But I swear to God I'll win a monarch game, oh yes I will or my name's Buckethead no more ! 
But I'd like to know something from all of you : for the same difficulty level, whatever it is you're playing, what map size do you use when you're thinking : "ok, i must win this one" ? I played small, standard and large. And maybe experience will prove me wrong again here, but so far I had better success with the large maps. Note that I always play the "continent" map ; this might be a factor too.
And for those of you who are playing deity : damn ! What planet do you come from ? I could sometime get a deity win playing Civ2, but the game's mechanics have changed so much in Civ3, I'll need a couple of months to even try deity.
Nice poll subject btw, 
Buckethead
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Kolyana
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quote:
I would say someone's better to work on improving his early game |
Couldn't agree more ... a fast and good start are essential. Start slow, end no where. The computer is constantly and aggressively growing, so if you don't carve out an empire *now* you never will.
I never play on small maps ... I always play on large. The best game I've had thus far was on Satya's World map ... gigantic?
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TrailerParkJawa
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Well, I've been playing at Chieftan. I've been having fun too.
I think once I can win a space victory I will go up to Warlord.
After 4-5 games where I lost, one of them by a SINGLE POINT!,
I won a histographic victory.
Normally, on Civ2 I would play Prince or King.
Ive found Civ3 to be much harder, which can be a good thing.
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Buckethead
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Just my thoughts on your last post Alex.
If you have fun at Regent difficulty level, I think you should try Monarch soon. You still get the 2 content citizens per city, so no adaptation needed here. The only thing is a small increase of AI productivity, but hey!, i don't think 11 swordmen instead of 10 makes a big difference for the AI, since most of the time they'll get killed by a lone spearman on a mountain, or something similar.
I believe the big league starts with Emperor difficulty level. Note that i haven't played it yet, so it's a real theorical thought.
And for the having-fun thing.... Definition of fun tends to evolve. Playing civ2, i thought for a long time that King level was fun. But i got to beat the AI whatever my starting position was ; and i did beat it really bad btw. Next thing i know, i'm still having fun, but playing Emperor level instead ! At the very end of my Civ2 addiction, i would pull a win at deity level now and then. Then fun starts to fade, because you know you won't get much better even through a thousand more hours of playing. 
Hoping i wont get a deity win too soon at Civ3 to make my investment worth it ! 
have fun,
Buckethead
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fikrii
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US, GA
Nov 2001
time: 05:16
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I started at Monarch, and am now steadily playing on Emperor.
There's no point and no fun playing on deity when the computer is no smarter, yet cheats a WHOLE LOT more (I know, I know, Emperor cheats too, but I can still tolerate it at Emperor).
My save file of my last emperor game is attached, about to win a space victory (always space here, conquest is not feasible w/ the corruption etc. , etc., hope they'll fix it)
- Emperor -
 Attachment: 1atest.zip
This has been downloaded 4 time(s).
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Whammy
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Started on Regent, won my third game about. Now just started Monarch, and am winning that so far. Although, this game has now become hindered at the discovering of a worker bug I made a thread on, and it's damn tempting considering my whole area is jungle.
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29-11-2001 12:50
...on warlord. shhhhh!
Just moved up to emperor as monarch was getting too easy. 
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