April 28, 2002, 14:49
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The hardest game possible
Not that I'm ready for it, but I was idly thinking about how to set up the most difficult possible game (without going into the editor).
Here's my shot at it; please feel free to suggest otherwise:
World Size: Large
Barbarians: Raging
Land Mass: Pangaea, far left
Climate: Wet
Temparature: Warm
Age: 3 billion
Civilization: England
Rivals: All random
Victory: Diplomatic and Cultural only
Civ-specific abilities: Yes
Culturally linked start: No
Restarting players: Yes
Preserve random seed: Yes
Difficulty: Deity
Actually, this is so hard that all victory conditions should probably be allowed.
I figure Aeson and a few others could deal with it... not me (yet).
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April 28, 2002, 15:51
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why would being England make it harder than any of the others?
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April 28, 2002, 16:00
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Because the English UU sucks, especially on a Pangaea map.
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April 28, 2002, 16:06
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Remind me, what is Englands UU?
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April 28, 2002, 16:08
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The Man-O-War - a Frigate with +1 attack and +1 bombard.
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"As far as general advice on mod-making: Go slow as far as adding new things to the game until you have the basic game all smoothed out ... Make sure the things you change are really imbalances and not just something that doesn't fit with your particular style of play." - WesW
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April 28, 2002, 17:14
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why would these settings make things any harder than other settings?
wtf? dommel? lol
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April 28, 2002, 17:19
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King
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Cold, dry would likely be harder than warm, wet. War, wet just means you need a lot of workers and the AI makes poor use of workers.
Other than that it looks pretty darn nasty without using the editor.
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April 28, 2002, 18:25
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Good start. Now commit yourself to only 1 city and no wars of aggression. I recently finished a game like this (played as Americans though...1 city with an expansionist nation). Won by spacerace in 1840 or there abouts.
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April 28, 2002, 19:29
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The hardest game is a deity start on a smallish island. With no-one to extort techs from you don't have much chance.
Last edited by DrSpike; April 28, 2002 at 21:22.
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April 28, 2002, 21:17
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Ah, but with warm and wet, tundra and deserts are rare, and thus so is oil... although coal will probably go for a dime a dozen. At least you'll have railroads...
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April 28, 2002, 21:56
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Originally posted by N. Machiavelli
Good start. Now commit yourself to only 1 city and no wars of aggression. I recently finished a game like this (played as Americans though...1 city with an expansionist nation). Won by spacerace in 1840 or there abouts.
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How is that even possible?
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April 28, 2002, 23:37
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I have been working my way up to a one city launch on deity. With the new patch I have launched on monarch and emperor. I won both pretty easily. I played standard map random rivals raging barb. Disabled cultural and diplomatic victory. NExt I'll try deity.
btw, what are the established standard rules for OCC attempts?
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April 29, 2002, 00:06
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King
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Originally posted by Saint Marcus
wtf? dommel? lol
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The Cartoon charater in my avatar.
To stay on topic. The Man-o-war is the most useless UU there is IMHO.
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April 29, 2002, 06:03
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Deity
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Originally posted by kimmygibler
btw, what are the established standard rules for OCC attempts?
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Find Solo's (The OCC master) thread, that'll help you out.
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April 29, 2002, 06:29
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Deity
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Wouldn't a smaller world necessitate early, multi-civ conflict that would likely disadvantage you?
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