So today I won Cultural victory with Frederick on Monarch (Huge, Pangea, 12 players), while trying not to let Kublai Khan get Diplomatic OR space victory (ended up beating his space race prolly by a few turns) and trying not to get annihilated by Alex's modern armors.
I managed to pull it off, but to do it, I had to go to 100% culture (0% science) and so I was doing Rocketry (or whatever its called) in late 1970s. Kinda pathetic, considering everybody else was doing future techs. The only reason I did not get destroyed was my diplomacy (78% approval rating, as I found out), my cultural dominance (+80% defense bonus in almost all cities), and my mass production of riflemen towards the end of the game.
So now comes the issue: I want to try my hand at Emperor difficulty, but I know for a fact that my a$$ will get served in the tech race and this time, the AI will not be as stupid and will destroy me in a matter of 2-3 turns. So how do you get ahead in tech on these diffuclties?
I don't expand too much, I had about 9-10 cities in the end, but I definitely owned the classical era with technology by bee-lining for the Oracle and getting alphabet for free. However, towards the end, the others completely shut me out ("You are getting too advanced") and would only trade among each other. The result? I'd be one tech behind Kublai Khan, and then contact him again next turn and find out he's now 5 techs ahead of me.
Any clues on how to be ahead the entire game?
I managed to pull it off, but to do it, I had to go to 100% culture (0% science) and so I was doing Rocketry (or whatever its called) in late 1970s. Kinda pathetic, considering everybody else was doing future techs. The only reason I did not get destroyed was my diplomacy (78% approval rating, as I found out), my cultural dominance (+80% defense bonus in almost all cities), and my mass production of riflemen towards the end of the game.
So now comes the issue: I want to try my hand at Emperor difficulty, but I know for a fact that my a$$ will get served in the tech race and this time, the AI will not be as stupid and will destroy me in a matter of 2-3 turns. So how do you get ahead in tech on these diffuclties?
I don't expand too much, I had about 9-10 cities in the end, but I definitely owned the classical era with technology by bee-lining for the Oracle and getting alphabet for free. However, towards the end, the others completely shut me out ("You are getting too advanced") and would only trade among each other. The result? I'd be one tech behind Kublai Khan, and then contact him again next turn and find out he's now 5 techs ahead of me.
Any clues on how to be ahead the entire game?
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