post here if you've beaten deity

[randomturn]

Just beat deity, and handily. Won a domination victory in 630AD with score of 9757. It seemed like it took a while for the domination to kick in, I feel like I had most of the world for a while, then I took this last city and the game just ended, bam.

I used a combination of early military rushing and some of the city placement strategies I talk about in my thread in the strategy forum. I'll go into strategy detail more over there.

[TCO]

RT is that the same as a conquest win? Has anybody won by conquest or by spaceship yet?

[randomturn]

Domination is pretty much like conquest, except that the game just stops and says you've won when there are just a couple of scrawny little cities left. It saves you from having to put a bunch of units in a boat and sending them off to a few dumb little islands to finish off straglers. I built a spaceship in emperor. No satisfying end-game movie, of course. Game just ends. What's up with the victory histographs and play button on the movie? Someone forget to finish them?

[TCO]

It's a bummer that they cut the movies. Those were a nice reward for accomplishments. I think they're critical in hooking newbies...

[Saint Marcus]

anyone can beat civ3 diety using the sell-all-cities-and-take-them-back-rightaway trick.

[sunshine]

RT, mind posting a savegame? Actually a series of savegames, if possible, since I don't see how you could do a civ 2 style military rush on civ 3 deity since 1) the ai is so good at combat and 2) combat victory is so randomly assigned, and 3) the ai cheats so badly. Watching the end game videos and they usually have 12 cities by 2150 bc. By the time you find him and march the 3 warriors you've managed to build over to him he is finishing sun tzu... and defending with pikemen/longbowmen.

I'm not saying you're lying but I sure would like to learn your tricks (and your strategy guide doesn't seem to be anything new or innovatively different from what I've been doing). I've survived to the end a couple times now, watching the ai launch spaceship components in 800 AD, and am getting frustrated.

Then again I've been playing on a huge map, and I see that you beat it on a small map, so maybe that makes the difference... the ai production advantage isn't as great if they don't have as much room to expand.

[Timeline]

Actually, I think the end-game spaceship movie is the sweetist thing I have seen in a long time . . .