what's the highest difficulty you finished?

[siz]

Curious if anyone beat deity, demi god or Sid. I'm wondering if the highest beatable level is deity, coz Sid level is too much.

I only beat it on emporer, almost won space race on demi-god until the AI won the game culturally, I had it won otherwise if I had space race down soon.

[vmxa1]

Beaten deity. No real attempt yet to beat Sid, just a foray or two.

[Alex]

Monarch. The levels above it are not appealing to me because of the huge benefits the AI gets.

[Fatwreck]

emperor, and that´s the only level I play for the moment, it feels like the right challenge for me...

[MattPilot]

"whats the highest difficulty you finished?"

funny - i got 'finished' within a few minutes on sid

[Flip McWho]

Well the only game I finished was on warlord, actually I think I lost that one, the Chinese beat me to the spaceship. Real good game that one. Well besides that one I've never finished a game in Civ3, I usually get bored before the end.

[geniemalin]

Emperor - (1) a bizarre domination victory where I was way behind in tech but managed to take down the Zulu's riflemen-defended cities with trebuchets and knight armies. Of course, having the Pentagon and Military Academy made them b@d-@ss knight armies, but still.... [and let me add at this point that having no access to saltpeter truly sucks in the late Mediaeval tree] and (2) another victory from behind, Diplomatic with Theadora (I was nice to everyone but was going to lose the space race and was also vulnerable to a concerted attack, so used my SGL which I'd been holding for ages, to complete the UN and won the vote...)

Based on the fact my Emperor victories have been 'iron out of the fire' I don't think I'm ready to step up to Deity.

[mr Rura]

i completed emperor and don't even want to play on deity - why should i stress myself . oh, maybe in far future...

[Master Marcus]

I can win on Emperor - tiny maps, but like Alex I prefer playing Monarch - above that the AI has too many bonuses, especially the tech bonus I just can't stand when the AI is more than 6-8 techs ahead of me, the challenge becomes not only unpleasant but unplayable ( on larger maps when you have to reach Modern Times, it's quite harder ).

The map size and initial settings can influence a lot the difficulty of a game. Choosing tiny map+Elimination 1 city ( only very occasionally did I play that kind of game between two behemoth ones ) can be playable for me on Emperor/Demi-God; otherwise on larger maps with only vanilla victory conditions enabled, Monarch remains the prefect challenge.

[asleepathewheel]

deity

prefer playing on emperor

[Cookie Monster]

Monarch, but I can't beat it consistantly yet. When I can I plan on trying emperor.

[Jon Miller]

I have never been a real big fan of SP

but recently (as in earlier this month), I decided that it would be interesting to see what levels I could win with just one city (with the additional stipulation that I could not leave my radius)

playing with just one city I beat emperor

haven't managed demigod yet

Jon Miller

[siz]

Could you explain what tactics you used to win on emporer with just 1 city? I can't see how it's possible even on small map, where the AI have 15 cities each. Unless they are fighting each other, still will have 1 dominant AI. and with 1 city how is it possible to get pass the ancient age before someone overuns you?

[Harovan]

I won a couple of deity games, but that's not what I call fun. I play to relax, not to have a second job. My usual level is emperor, and although it's not overly challenging, it suits well as source of fun. After Conquests is fixed (I mean an official patch), I may look a bit closer at demigod.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by siz
Could you explain what tactics you used to win on emporer with just 1 city? I can't see how it's possible even on small map, where the AI have 15 cities each. Unless they are fighting each other, still will have 1 dominant AI. and with 1 city how is it possible to get pass the ancient age before someone overuns you?

Toe Truck as some OCC threads on the strag forum. Look back a few months, mmaybe 90 days.