Beating Deity AI

[VivalaCTP2]

The only way I can beat the deity AI is to set the map small and have max ocean, max islands so that the stupid thing can't expand so quickly. What about on a larger map, how do you keep up with the AI's fast growth rate and even faster science rate?

[JPF_civplayer]

I find that on larger maps with few opponents it can be tough to come out ahead, especially with few goods and no barbarians to slave.

I have found slaving is very important to winning. Only drawbacks are 1) you have to be the one to build the emancipation wonder or you get a lot of unhappiness and 2) after you build said wonder you have to quickly boost food production/happiness improvements in cities that had a lot of slaves.

[coldsteel]

Sometimes you can't keep up with the ai. But you can always build some stacks of cannons and go capture london exchange, edison's, internet, after the ai builds them. With these wonders then you can keep up to some extent until robotics, then build stacks of war walkers to smash all the enemy civs.

cold

[bongo]

Cold - when you're talking about stack of cannons, do you mean stacks with 9 cannons or do you give them some defenders as well(musketeers...)

[VivalaCTP2]

What happens if the ai builds emancipation, aren't you knackered if you can't take that city?