28-04-2002 23:49									#1
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Not that I'm ready for it, but I was idly thinking about how to set up the most difficult possible game (without going into the editor).

Here's my shot at it; please feel free to suggest otherwise:

World Size: Large
Barbarians: Raging
Land Mass: Pangaea, far left
Climate: Wet
Temparature: Warm
Age: 3 billion
Civilization: England
Rivals: All random
Victory: Diplomatic and Cultural only
Civ-specific abilities: Yes
Culturally linked start: No
Restarting players: Yes
Preserve random seed: Yes
Difficulty: Deity

Actually, this is so hard that all victory conditions should probably be allowed.

I figure Aeson and a few others could deal with it... not me (yet).

	29-04-2002 00:51									#2
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why would being England make it harder than any of the others?

	29-04-2002 01:00									#3
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Because the English UU sucks, especially on a Pangaea map.

	29-04-2002 01:06									#4
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Remind me, what is Englands UU?

	29-04-2002 01:08									#5
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The Man-O-War - a Frigate with +1 attack and +1 bombard.

	29-04-2002 02:14									#6
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quote: The hardest game possible

why would these settings make things any harder than other settings?

quote: Dommel Leeft!

wtf? dommel? lol

	29-04-2002 02:19									#7
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Cold, dry would likely be harder than warm, wet. War, wet just means you need a lot of workers and the AI makes poor use of workers.

Other than that it looks pretty darn nasty without using the editor.

	29-04-2002 03:25									#8
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Good start. Now commit yourself to only 1 city and no wars of aggression. I recently finished a game like this (played as Americans though...1 city with an expansionist nation). Won by spacerace in 1840 or there abouts.

	29-04-2002 04:29									#9
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The hardest game is a deity start on a smallish island. With no-one to extort techs from you don't have much chance.

Last edited by DrSpike on 29-04-2002 at 06:22

	29-04-2002 06:17									#10
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Ah, but with warm and wet, tundra and deserts are rare, and thus so is oil... although coal will probably go for a dime a dozen. At least you'll have railroads...

	29-04-2002 06:56									#11
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quote: Originally posted by N. Machiavelli Good start. Now commit yourself to only 1 city and no wars of aggression. I recently finished a game like this (played as Americans though...1 city with an expansionist nation). Won by spacerace in 1840 or there abouts.

How is that even possible?

	29-04-2002 08:37									#12
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I have been working my way up to a one city launch on deity. With the new patch I have launched on monarch and emperor. I won both pretty easily. I played standard map random rivals raging barb. Disabled cultural and diplomatic victory. NExt I'll try deity.

btw, what are the established standard rules for OCC attempts?

	29-04-2002 09:06									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Saint Marcus quote: Dommel Leeft! wtf? dommel? lol

The Cartoon charater in my avatar.

To stay on topic. The Man-o-war is the most useless UU there is IMHO.

	29-04-2002 15:03									#14
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quote: Originally posted by kimmygibler btw, what are the established standard rules for OCC attempts?

Find Solo's (The OCC master) thread, that'll help you out.

	29-04-2002 15:29									#15
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Wouldn't a smaller world necessitate early, multi-civ conflict that would likely disadvantage you?