Post the settings that have given you the most fun!

[Boris Godunov]

We all have different preferences for the game, but I've found that my preconceived idea of what would make the "most fun" Civ game haven't held up in Civ4. I thought a huge map, max civs, Epic length would be it, but I actually found that more tedious than a smaller game.

So here's the most fun I've had so far:

Map Size: Large
Type: Terra
# of Civs: 12 (crowded! )
Difficulty: Noble
Victory Conditions: All but diplomatic
Aggressive AI: No
Speed: Standard
All other conditions default
Civ played: Germans/Bismarck

So what settings have given you the best time?

[Aro]

Huge map
12 civs
Chieftain
All victory conditions on
No aggressive AI (not more than usual )
Speed: standart
All the rest default
Arabs/Saladin

[alva]

Map Size: Standard
Type: Highlands
# of Civs: 7
Difficulty: Monarch
Victory Conditions: All
Aggressive AI: No
Speed: Standard
All other conditions default
Civ played: Random

[Footie Mad]

Map Size: Large
Type: Pangea, Random shoreline
# of Civs: 11
Difficulty: Monarch
Victory Conditions: All except space race
Aggressive AI: No
Speed: Standard
All other conditions default
Civ played: Random, the particular I became the Arabs.

[Boris Godunov]

Alva, what civ did you end up playing?

[alva]

I meant random as "several" and normal random, I rarely actually chose a leader anyway. I can't remember which I have played so far on that map to be honest.

One of my favourite leaders is Bismarck though.

Highland games can be very tough btw.

[Disk Killer]

Map Size: Large
Type: Continents
# of Civs: 16 (awesome rivalries)
Difficulty: Noble
Victory Conditions: All but space race
Aggressive AI: No
Speed: Standard
All other conditions default
Civ played: Canadians/Gandhi

[Blake]

Map size: Large.
Type: Great Plains. (Love them!!!)
# of Civs: Default.
Difficulty: Prince.
Victory Conditions: All but space.
Agressive AI: No.
Raging Barbarians: Yes!!!
Speed: Epic.
Civ Played: Anyone with one or more of Industrial/Agressive/Creative.

Btw I find Highlands to be extremely easy (same with Great Plains). They seem to favor my expansion boom / resource grab / Axemen strategy. I find islands maps much harder since I'm much more limited in my resource whoring.

Terra is also great fun, but the AI is a bit dysfunctional when it comes to new world expansion.

[ajbera]

Here's one I just started. I wanted a quick, nasty fight, so it's:
Map size: duel size
Type: custom continents (4)
# of civs: 4 (one on each continent)
Starting era: industrial
Victory: Conquest, Domination, Culture.
Speed: standard
Difficulty: normal

I chose Alexander, plus Aggressive civs for the AI (Napoleon, Genghis Khan, & Tokugawa). I did not choose the "Agressive AI" option (figured I didn't need to). But nobody has attacked anyone else! I think Genghis and Napoleon are having tea parties. So I've started amassing my armies to see if Tokugawa is a pushover, and hopefully precipitate the global firestorm I crave. Next time I'll choose the agressive AI or permanent war options.

My favorite maps, though, are medium-large with lots and lots of civs, everything else pretty much default. Random personalities can be fun. Terra maps are friggin' awesome - one of the best additions to the game.

[Henrik]

Map Size: Huge
Type: Terra
Climate: Tropical
Sea Level: High
# of Civs: 14-16 (tried both, both work)
Difficulty: Noble
Victory Conditions: All but space race
Aggressive AI: No
Speed: Epic
All other conditions default
Civ played: Arabs/Saladin

Loads of wars and fighting over limited resources

[soztabak]

Map Size: Standard
Type: Pangea
# of Civs: 18
Difficulty: Monarch
Victory Conditions: All
Permenant Allies : Yes
Civ played: Indians/Gandhi or French/Napoleon

[TehSroc]

Map Size: Ginormous! (custom modded size.. even larger than huge.. i love my comp)
Type: Continents
Climate: Gaia
Sea Level: Custom
# of Civs: 12 (2 hotseat players)
Difficulty: Noble
Victory Conditions: All but space race
Aggressive AI: No
Speed: Epic
Roaming Barbarians
Civs played: Me as Russia and my friend as China

By far the most epic game of civ i've ever played.. we've played to around 1700AD and theres still TONS of unexplored land.. and we havent met 4 of the AI's yet.
So far its been a heck of a struggle against hordes of barbarians.. at one point i lost three of my cities to them and the barbarians rivalled me culturally, but i took them back with a horde of horse archers.. meanwhile my friend met some nasty neighbours (yay for monty) and immediately got into conflict with him..
as of our last play session my friends army of ho-cho-ni and knights were duking it out with montys well fortified cities.. and my army of horse archers were keeping my borders as safe as possible from the encroaching barbarians (and germans... damn those germans) as i mass produced settlers to spread my glorious russian culture to the resource heavy east!

[Datajack Franit]

Map Size: Normal
Type: Greater Plains (rocky-temperate)
# of civs: 5
Victory conditions: military, domination, cultural
Aggressive AI: no
Barbarians: on
Permanent Alliances: on
Difficulty: Monarch



Started on the far west side of the map (GP map isn't a round-globe map so it makes the border completely safe) and started to send settlers building cities in pure strategically way. Founded 15 cities surrounded by mountains, protected by rivers, hills and walls. Managed to convert to Christianity Spain, my closest enemy, which becomes my best friend right after converting, protecting me from England. Declare war to France and destroy them, but lose more than 30 years in modern ages, England and Russia take huge leaps forward in tech advances.

Ally with Spain and declare war to England.

13 years later, England razes Barcelona and wipes off Spain.

Russia declares war as well. They conquer all of France and seize Dusseldorf, the biggest fort on the north frontier, home of the SDI.

Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg receive an ICBM shower

England mech seize Berlin

End!

[Rogerdude]

Originally posted by TehSroc
Map Size: Ginormous! (custom modded size.. even larger than huge.. i love my comp)

What did you modifiy in CIV4WorldInfo.xml?
GridWidth and GridHeight?

[TehSroc]

Humm im not sure but it was something like 40x26, and i tried playing with some of the other strings even tho i have no idea what they did >_>