What level do you play?

[Jaguar]

I started out chieftan, moved to Warlord next game, moved up to monarch. (I played civ2 at diety so I figured I could skip a level) but now I'm gonna move down to regent, and have that be my playing level. On Monarch, the AI was being ridiculous.

[Jaybe]

Regent. I don't want to have an advantage over the AI, and visa versa ...
(not yet, anyway).

With civ2, I never played beyond King (Monarch) level.

[Harovan]

Most of my games I play at Monarch level. Started with Regent (after 1/2 game on Chieftain as "Tutorial") moved up to Deity, and found my ideal balance between fun and challenge somewhere at Monarch.

[Method]

currently i play warlord. if i follow the pattern i took with SMAC i'll stall at warlord (specialist) for a while then gradually make my way up to emperor (thinker) over the course of about a year at which point i'll purchase the next best game that comes out (SMAC->Civ III)

[Jack_www]

Right now I am playing on the Monarch level. My goal is to work my way up to Deity level. The First few times I played on Monarch I had lots of problems, but now I am doing pretty good. In current game I am the nation with the highest histograph score. I only played Deity once, and did not play that long. When I played at that level I quickly got surronded by the other AI civs and was really small, I started to get over runned by the Computer players, and so I quit since it was too hard for me at that time, that was a long time ago. I might try deity once more soon though.

[Skanky Burns]

I play Monarch. The AI gets a little bonus to be a challenge, but not enough to make the entire game a struggle for me to stay alive. It is IMO the most fun level.

[ixnay]

After having won easily on regent, I moved up to monarch, where I got my ass whooped several times. My current game is actually going pretty well, though. After this I plan to move to emperor, get beaten a few times, and eventually make it to Deity (something I never got around to doing on civ2).

[Worthingtons]

I'm planning to play my next game at Monarch. I make changes in the Editor which usually benefit the AI but I'm absolutly kicking ass on Regent So I'm going to Move up Monarch.

People have said however, that the change is considerable between the two levels though.

[Aeson]

I've played most of my games at Deity, but with 1.17f as it is, I may just move down to Emperor or even Monarch. The tech rate is just too fast now, and I like being able to actually use units that I build, instead of them being obsolete by the time they are produced.

[Jac de Molay]

Having just acquired the game, I am relegated to chieftain status...

Dave

[Spec]

I always play Monarch or higher, Regent is to easy. As soon as you get the hang of it you're sure to squash anyone. But the level I play most is Monarch, at that level there's a good balance between fun and challenge. But in Deity, I always struggle to keep my place at first and then work my way up afterwards. I only managed to win twice in about 8 games and both times with a SpaceRace win (2042 and 2047 ). Thanks to those fine leaders.

Spec.

[Zouave]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I play Monarch. The AI gets a little bonus to be a challenge, but not enough to make the entire game a struggle for me to stay alive. It is IMO the most fun level.

My thoughts exactly.

[Velociryx]

I play almost exclusively at Monarch. Have played all from Regent on up...have beaten the game on those levels, but really didn't enjoy it.

From a gameplay perspective, I find that Emperor and above play out to linearly....you gotta beat the AI to a pulp, and you gotta do it early. That stopped being fun for me very quickly, but Monarch opens up a few other possibilities, so that's where I settled.

-=Vel=-

[fezick31]

Warlord for me, as I don't get to plat very often. Dang school

[philler]

whatever the current tournament game is!

I've been playing only those since early december.
don't even have time to finish some of them