HELP on difficulty PLZ!!!

[TheStinger]

Timming is crucial, on lower levels you can attack, **** it up completley and get away with it, on higher levels if you do it wrong you get your arse kicked.

You need to know when exactly to attack and when you ahve the right number of units

[campmajor!]

I must admit that only recently I let go of my civ2 habit not to mine grassland. Only recently I discovered the advantages of doing that. It is amazing how your production gets a boost at that early level. And later on it is easy to change it to irrigation, because by then you have a lot of workers doing not to much until pollution comes into sight....

In my games I allways try to get the Great Library first. By building it, because you don't always get a Great Leader at that stage....

It is easier when you start with a civ that already has alphabet. And discovering writing early gives you a tech that not very much AI civs have, so you can trade for the other techs!

[edit: spelling]

[alva]

I stopped chasing after the GL alltogether, on higher levels, I find it too much of a gamble. Except when I'm presented with a GL of course.

Don't you just love all these abbreviations
1.GL=Great Library
2.GL=Great Leader

[vulture]

Let's not forget:

3. GL=Great Lighthouse

[lateralis]

Originally posted by alva
Stay around for awhile, and read alot of threads, you'll get there

I totally agree with this statement. I've been slowly rising in difficulty (still can't quite master emporor) and I owe it all to 'poly

keep reading, especially in the strategy forum, this game is so complex with so many nuances, it takes a while to get it. before civ, I played almost only FPS games with the ocaisoinal RTS. WAY DIFFERENT!!!! something that also worked well for me was this:

each time I wanted to jump difficulty, I played about 10 games through only the ancient/early middle ageson the new level. Just to get a feel for how the AI plays on that level. different ressearch rates, production. expansion. just observing while continuously reading up on strat.

keep pluggin away, civ is so addicting, especially when you start to get better at it!!

lateralis