United Nations

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Hunter007_PL
My opinion about monarch: when powerfull civ declares war to you-you have no chances... What is your opinion about difficoulty of levels?

I doubt many experienced players would agree that you have no chance against a powerful civ on Monarch. OTOH, less experienced players might find it a challenge - of course it depends on the relative power.

If I only build one warrior per city and wait for Alex to come knocking then I'm in trouble on just about any level. At Monarch, you need a stronger army, which in turn requires more time to build and more cash to support it.

Monarch is a fairly big leap from Prince, and not very forgiving of unfocused play. It does narrow your strategic options compared to Prince, but not as much as Emp+.

For a strong player, Monarch is probably too easy, but some players like to play relaxed and within their comfort zone, others like a tough competition.

I do wish people would master or at least dominate one level before expecting to be able to beat the next though. I don't think one win at Monarch makes an Emperor-level player. It's amazing how many people seek advice for playing at the highest levels before mastering the basics.

[Hunter007_PL]

So what level do you usually play?

How do they do this to win on higher lvs than monarch? I played monarch 2 times-1st time on archipelago, huge, temperature. And I won . I have started on a big island, nobody else started there... PCu fighted themselvs, so I were the first to built spaceship...
The second time I played monarch was: continents (If I remember well), huge, temperature... No chanches, because I usually built huge army when I can construct tanks, marrines, and altilery... So, when Cyrus attaks with 5 times more powerfull forces-no chanses :P...
And I don't play for relaxing :P, prince is not so easy (recently I won 3400 pts against 2000 (70% difference) ), because sometimes AI is stronger, bigger, and there are realy byg problems :P... OK, I start play monarch today, I'll say, if I won.

By the way... Are there any saves of people, who won on high levels??? Is there any subject about highest levels won? (If there is, please put a link to them here).

[Nugog]

Originally posted by Hunter007_PL
So what level do you usually play?

I play all sorts of levels - I have no set kind of routine. Although at higher levels I just hope to survive

Honestly I am not a great palyer, but that does not change the fact that the UN is one dimensional, and does this game no justice.

It is (IMHO) ****e

[Hunter007_PL]

I am not a great player too, I think... Playing monarch I have 50% to win... Not so good... Prince-99%... But higher? ... I don't want to try, this could be massacre...
Now I am playing monarch, and I am going to have from 2 to 4 place of 10 players... Not so good :/...

[Tokyo Sexwale]

Yeah, UN is rubbish.... I like the idea but I just don't understand how you can be everyone's fav civ for thousands of years and then lose the game in one turn when a rich AI buys off everyone else to vote against you. But if you're the baddie and try to buy the others off.... it never works.

I think this is one area they could really expand for Civ5 and make it interesting.... there's been good suggestions in this thread already.

I like cultural as I'm more of a builder.... but the AI is very weak at cultural victories. I'm thinking of firing up a Deity game (I usually play Prince/Monarch) with only Cultural enabled and seeing if the AI does well with it. The closest I've ever seen the AI come to a cultural victory was a Monarch marathon game (need 150 000 pts per city) and Fred had like 120k, 60k and 40k. Not very good at all.

I think the AI is poor at making long-term decisions.... if I run my culture at 30% for 150 turns I wll be close to a cultural victory, that kinda thing. They just build a huge amount of troops which they don't always use. Then again, there's been a number of times I've been too far behind in military and lost because of it. But I often go for a cultural vic on Monarch as I find it more satisfying than shifting hundreds of tanks around the map in the late game to get the win.