I'm going to be the Zulus first, on Cheiftain, you?

[jdd2007]

THAT LAST POST JUST MADE ME A CHIEFTAN

[joseph1944]

MAP: WORLD MAP, LARGES
LEVEL: CHIEFTAIN
CIV: AMERICANS
AI CIVS: ZULU, ENGLISH, CHINESE, EGYPT, INDIA, RUSSIAN, and NOT SURE
EVERY THING ON
ALL VICTORY PATHS ON
BARBARIAN LEVEL: HARDEST
HEY TECH; A VERY GOOD FORMAT

[Brad]

Greeks on Prince level with largest map and medium barbarians

[Skanky Burns]

Germany on warlord level, maximum barbarians, max AIs - random, all options on and all victory paths, no restarting of civs.

[krzysiek]

Japanese.
First play is a warm up: chieftain level, weakest barbarians, small map, all victory paths.

[Buck Birdseed]

Map: Large (not huge) random map
Difficulty level: Prince or King
Barbarians: Restless Tribes
All victory conditions and Civ-specifics on.

My Civ: Egyptians
Other Civs: Zulus, Babs, Russians, Aztecs, Random, Random, Random.

[Rasbelin]

Probably one of those completly new civs or perhaps the Russians.
But if the Celts would be in the game, then anything else would
be out of question.

[Earthling7]

Map: Large Earth
Difficulty: Chieftain to get the feel
Barbarians: Restless Tribes
Victories: All on
Me: Germans - Nicely challenging to be crammed in Europe on a world map
Other Civs: Random

[JellyDonut]

I think (and hope) that the transition to Civ3 will not be one where you can just start at Emperor or Deity without expecting to have your ass creamed into a fine mush. I am going to start on Chieftain and climb the ladder.

Newly updated specs on my first game, given the new info (like you care anyway ):

Map: Largest world map
My Civ: Russians
Leader Name: Dzhelij Donat'
Other Civs: 7 random civs
Barbs: Villages Only
Victory Paths: All
CSAs: On
Random Starting Locations: No
Random Distribution of Resources: No (if this option is included)
National Motto: "Moj adres' ne dom i ne ulica, moj adres' Soveckij Sojuz!"

[Stromprophet]

I'm going with France, Prince, Hardest Barbs, World Map(I heard the maps are much larger, and can be also designed very large), victory path, Bloodlust elimination.

[aaglo]

I want to start with Iroquois (because almost everybody seems to hate them in these forums). And like Ribannah says -
Love Hiawatha - or something like that...
Difficulty: Chieftain, the rest is still undecided...

[Ubik]

Greeks (yeah, big surprise )
Largest map possible, earth
8 civs (American, Aztec, Iroqui English Zulu Indian Chinese - hey, I don't want a too hard one in my first attempt, right?)
All victory conditions on
all specials on
Prince or King level (to find out how hard it will be this time - Civ2 was a real challenge only in Deity, when the AI-cheat-the-heck-outta-you occured)

[Steve Clark]

King level (at any lower levels, you probably wouldn't see some of the things you need to learn)
Large world map (for familiarity and comparison)
Random civs/placements (otherwise it would be too predictable)
Just bloodlust/spaceship at first (other victory conditions will require new strategies and learning curve)

NO civ attributes, NO unique units, NO golden ages or other stuff like that. I just want to play a Civ2 with all of the new major gameplay elements (diplomacy, trade, resources, culture, etc.). That would be enough to handle and learn without having it become complicated with AI civ foolishness.

[Jer8m8]

Anyone think of doing a random civ?

[Christantine The Great]

Civ: Greeks
Difficulty: Chieftan (Don't want to be bothered with war until the second game at least.
Barb level: Highest (if there's going to be barbs, there's going to be BARBS! )
No. of Civs: All 8.
Map: After I look at all of them through the map editor and move the Greek starting place to Constantinople I'll pick.