what level is the highest you can win most of the time?

[mala]

what level is the highest you can win most of the time?

[Dis]

okay, fess up.

who here is going to admit to chieftan

[Robert]

I have voted Demigod.
I have won Deity once. Not that I tried oftenly.

The bad start on Deity bugs me, it's pherhaps challenging, but not really enjoyable.

[Aeson]

From an average start I can beat Deity about 9/10 times. From an average start on Sid I lose about 9/10.

[kermit_the_frog]

I voted Monarch

[psumbody]

I voted Regent. I have never been able to beat CIV or SMAC on the highest level.

[Krill]

From an average start I can beat Deity about 9/10 times. From an average start on Sid I lose about 9/10.

Remind me never to play a PBEM against you or the AU mod Panel again.


I play emperor, but I don't like playing beyond the middle ages, since I no longer have a hole to climb out of. That is the fun bit of this game for me.

[Robert]

In civ2 I always easily beated deity.
I think I can beat any human, no matter what level.
The thing is just that on sid/deity the AI get such a huge start that it's not fun anymore.

The biggest part of the game I'm busy catching up, and when I catched up I walk over them easily since I became insanely big.
There's hardly a moment when the game is equal to me on deity / sid.

But I'll keep on trying deity, it must be possible to catch up with the AI early in the game. I just have to find out how

[MotownDennis]

Originally posted by CyberShy
I think I can beat any human, no matter what level.

Oh yeah? Wanna give it a try?

[eris]

I'll put it this way. I have gotten past Chieftan, but I won't say how far. (I'm glad the vote isn't connected with the post.) Considering the challenges I face now, I do not even think about playing the upper levels, let alone winning them. In fact, if I hadn't read turn by turn descriptions in various diferent threads, I wouldn't believe all you people are really winning those upper levels.

And as for playing MP with you people that do win up there in the stratosphere, no way. I may be silly, but I'm not stupid. Well, maybe the "stupid" part is up to debate if you ask my cats, but I would sure feel stupid watching you folks clobber me like a game of Whack-a-Mole.

I used to think I was a pretty darn good game player until I met Civ3 and you folk. If life keeps handing me lessons in humility, I may finally figure it out some day.

[Robert]

Originally posted by MotownDennis


Oh yeah? Wanna give it a try?

Sure, but first I need to setup my network in such a way that I can play online. I'm behind a router with 3 pc's

[TheArsenal]

I haven’t lost a Monarch game since the first few games I moved up (and didn’t so much lose those as not hang around to see them out after fatal mistakes were costing me big time). At this point I win near every game at nearly all victories at will. Yet, I still manage to run into big problems when sticking my toe in the Emperor level pool. Go figure.

[Last Conformist]

I'm too kinda stuck 'tween Monarch and Emperor. Win easily on Monarch most of the time, get squashed early on on Emperor.

[spy14]

I voted Emporer, but whatever level im playing at corruption is always set to 40%. Not sure how much difference this makes, as the default corruption level seems so high that I only ever played a couple of games with it.

[Aeson]

There is very little direct correllation to how well a player does in SP vs MP. You can (and sometimes have to to win at the higher levels) do things against the AI that just would never work against a competent human.