Playing on Chieftain

[kmad]

Those of you who play chieftain for fun from time-to-time, do you bother creating massive trade routes with Caravans?

[Scouse Gits]

This is really not intended to be condescending, but a genuine question lest I'm missing something ...

What fun do you get by playing at Chieftain?

SG[1]

[Hydey]

It seems like trying your hardest when playing catch with your children.

[ramses II.]

Don't be so hard with a newbie.
Playing civ is fun in every level.
I agree I won't play it again - but for a newbie it's hard enough.

[Scouse Gits]

My apologies, kmad and Ramses - no offence was intended. I had realised that you, kmad, were a newbie on the forums, but until I checked back on your posts had assumed that you were an experienced Civ2 player - I had missed your remark about only having played for 3 months ...

SG[1]

[kmad]

Hey, sometimes I don't feel like putting out all the effort to try emperor again, so I'll just pass an hour by playing chietain

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

I haven't done it in a while - even when I was labouring to win in King I seldom slummed in Chieftain. Even the first time I played Civ2, I think I played Warlord.

What can make it fun is playing with an offbeat goal - like trying to uncover all the black on the map before the game ends, or a nomad challenge, or a bribe only game (no units allowed to be built except diplomats/spies). I tried a few of those on Chieftain a while ago.

But, a lot of people here could win those on Deity, of course.

STYOM

[Nilat]

Well Im SOOOO bored at playing chieftain sometimes but I play with warlord usually cause I emperor is a little too hard for me

[Juggler]

I used to play on warlord level but then skipped prince and whent right on to playing as king.
What a massive surge of adrenalin that was.

[Rasbelin]

King for me, occasionally deity. Chieftain? What's that? Oh, yes, had something to do with Civ...

Danger imminent! Rasbey is on a nostalgic mood.

[ NOSTALGIA ]

I can still remember my first (yes, it has to be my first go with Civ II) game on Chieftain level. I was the Brits and started with a slow and limited expansion, but the civ still managed to keep on going. But in the (can't remember witch century) 19/20th a disasterous war broke out so the British empire was almost swept away, but some kind of diplomatic negotiation and heavy bribery solved the problem. So AFAIK my civ survived.

[ / NOSTALGIA ]

[trickey]

I play on the second difficulty. i can manage on the third one. As for playing on chieftan, that is very easy for me, and im horrible compared to most players here.

[ColdWizard]

i usually play on chieftain for a nice relaxing game where i don't have to worry about doing everything right. now if i want to get my ass handed to me by the ai, i'll play about 2 minutes of starcraft.

and in answer to the question, no i don't, but then i've not learned how to use caravans for anything other than wonder building (F5ing all the time to find the appropriate destination city seems like such a pain in the ass)

[Scouse Gits]

CW - absolutely LOVE the sig quote!!!
WtF is FYROM (your country flag)??

SG[1]

[on-topic] Trade routes are important even at the low levels of play they grow in utility with the size of the cities and can get close to doubling the output from a city!!![/on-topic]

This is not a thread-jack - honest

[Rasbelin]

FYROM stands for Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia. That name is mostly used by Greeks and in official matters by USA and UK, as they don't want to have bad relations to Greece. Has to do with the fact that Greece doesn't see FYROM as independent, and they do have claims for it as it once upon a time was a sovereign part of the Macedonia in today's Northern Greece where Markos lives. So that's why the Brits and Yanks don't officially use the name Macedonia for the independent Republic of Macedonia.

OT...

[Scouse Gits]

Thanks