Single Civ Continents

[Dr. Trespasser]

Does anyone enjoy playing single civ continents? What I mean is something like "6" custom continents with 6 civs, each on their own continent. I like playing these alot and was wondering if anyone had some tips or strategies for this type of play. Playing on a huge globe, I've noticed that trade and modern resource hunting are important.

[Solver]

You can just use the Islands map for that .

[Dr. Trespasser]

how different will that be from custom continents? I want to have my own starting continent with no chance of anyone else being near me.

[Dis]

I like that too. Even though it's probably a human advanage (probably why I like it). It's nice not having to worry about large stacks of AI units showing up at your doorstep. The most I've seen is 6 cossacks.

[vee4473]

I like this idea too. I recently started a custom continents game with 5 civs on 6 continents, thereby guaranteeing (sp) at least 1 continent that was totally up for grabs! fun fun!!

I wonder, though, if having 6 cont. and 6 civs guarantees a cont. per civ.

Not knowing how the game places civs, isn't it possible to have 2 civs on the same cont. even with 6 and 6? (which is why i did 6 and 5)

[Cordelayne]

Check out all the many options for the Islands maps, as mentioned before (under Custom from the main menu). You can fine tune it in all kinds of ways. I like to set it up with 1 big island per civ, plus a few more big islands, plus lots of little islands too.

[Dr. Trespasser]

ok, the islands seem cool, wonder why I havent seen it yet, off to start a new game

[Bluefusion]

playing on separate continents? You might as well play by yourself without any AIs.

What's best is playing pangea on small, Monarch with 15 AIs. Now that's some serious Civ4

[Dr. Trespasser]

its not long at all until you meet up with the AI on separate continents, instead of them stealing all of your good city spots you actually have a good base before dealing with the world, and they do to.

[MoonWolf]

I often like this style too It's nice to slowly build up your kingdom and then, suddenly, out of the morning fog comes your ships loaded with an army made for conquering ready to build your empire

(Didn't know you could tune that much with islands, thanks!)

[Enigma_Nova]

Originally posted by Cordelayne
Check out all the many options for the Islands maps, as mentioned before (under Custom from the main menu). You can fine tune it in all kinds of ways. I like to set it up with 1 big island per civ, plus a few more big islands, plus lots of little islands too.

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Ah, a Gen 2-er.

What's best is playing pangea on small, Monarch with 15 AIs. Now that's some serious Civ4

Nono, Terra, Duel, Noble & 18 AIs.

[djpsychonaut]

Call me crazy, but I'm usually upset and end the game if I realize that I'm the only person on the continent. I think there are issues in terms of trade here. Also, you'll be a religious leper, because by the time you make contact with other civs they'll likely already have another religion and it'll take a while for you to convert them all. I'm not saying that I'm a Pangaea player, but I am really partial to Continents. You usually don't have to worry about a stack of enemy units showing up at your door if you can convert them to your religion. Also, I usually like to take a George W Bush-style pre-emptive approach with my heathen neighbors!

Let's just say, once I've discovered Iron... it's game over for some poor civ!

[Axxaer]

I agree, while it's fun to be able to build up an empire before facing the world, it does severely impede trade, religion and certain other aspects of the game. I prefer just playing a slightly larger map so you still have time to build somewhat of an empire whilst still being able to easily contact other players.

[HavenDuuk]

I hate being alone on an island.

The AI gets so far ahead in tech that I feel like the Iroquois greeting the British when they finally reach me.

[Dr. Trespasser]

My experience has been that when I'm on an island with other civs they attack me 50% of the time for some not very good reasons. Then I have to switch production from wonders and other cool useful stuff to disposable military units that are a waste of time in the long run. The game just makes me feel like, if you make war, "unless for a strategic resource" you are most often wasting your time and resources.