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The ultimate challenge mission impossible could I really do this?
So I have played a lot of civ games and I have I like to think always been above average I usually always have to play on a hard difficulty unless I want to play in zombie sleep mode and even then. However one thing I have never been able to do apart from borderline cheating (not actual cheating but setting up a game where it one vs one and you start in modern era with all techs and just declare nuke and take their city in one turn which i dont think counts and may as well be cheating) is beat any of the games on deity.
This is a real challenge and many have struggled but of course there are those that have pulled it off. Now I know so many people on here are going to come on and claim that they have beaten the every civ game on deity difficulty just to troll me, I can believe there may be a civ diety beater lurking here somewhere but not the whole community its a very rare and hard achievement so lets not get silly.
However I recently found a way of getting civ 2 to work on my laptop and have played through and reached a point where even emperor difficulty (the difficulty level just before diety) is easy with the right start I mean on civ 5 I had a few immortal wins (the difficulty before diety there) but never beat diety unless you count that border line cheat thing I mentioned in the first paragraph. but then I struggled for those immortal wins. I have not struggled for the emperor wins in civ 2.
So the nail biting moment comes down to it I am going to try and do the unthinkable a legitimate civilization diety beater!!! This will likely take several weeks as if I tried to play the volume outright my girlfriend would hit the roof as I would basically do nothing else. This may be intense.
This is a real challenge and many have struggled but of course there are those that have pulled it off. Now I know so many people on here are going to come on and claim that they have beaten the every civ game on deity difficulty just to troll me, I can believe there may be a civ diety beater lurking here somewhere but not the whole community its a very rare and hard achievement so lets not get silly.
However I recently found a way of getting civ 2 to work on my laptop and have played through and reached a point where even emperor difficulty (the difficulty level just before diety) is easy with the right start I mean on civ 5 I had a few immortal wins (the difficulty before diety there) but never beat diety unless you count that border line cheat thing I mentioned in the first paragraph. but then I struggled for those immortal wins. I have not struggled for the emperor wins in civ 2.
So the nail biting moment comes down to it I am going to try and do the unthinkable a legitimate civilization diety beater!!! This will likely take several weeks as if I tried to play the volume outright my girlfriend would hit the roof as I would basically do nothing else. This may be intense.
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Meanwhile in the real world Dave is still to realise that his whole world is merely a CGI generated experience and he is in fact in a basement, in his underwear, eating suger puff sandwiches and referring to a sprite as his girlfriend.
All hail Dave the Deity.
Still play it, pretty much every day. And have done since the 1990s. But I don't play it on deity mode
Been able to outright buy cities with spies seems like an over game exploit and been two eras ahead and a diplomat steals amphibious war or tactics seems a bit silly. it seems the main strategys are either to go super science city where you build the coluses observatory and isac newtons colledge all in a city with a high trade terrain, or to go mass spies and super tax and just buy cities to advance.
I have made the super sci city work multiple times but have yet to try all tax and buy cities for advance.
on higher difficulty a lot depends on starting location, with no opponents near by or a sudden quick army from huts at the beggining to take out near rivals and a lot of cities in good locations from huts combined with the super science city and you can hit industrial era before AD and the game is already over. conversly if you have a few huts/bad luck with huts and a poor starting location with an aggressive AI near by your done.
Where as if you have start on a tiny island your done. I noticed on diety as soon as city is size 2 without temple anarchy so had to restart for a game where I start with cermonial buriel but now we off and going.
Oh and Davey boy, just for the record. It was your ancestry that allowed for the crucifixion and resurrection when you turned him over to Pilate. Without that the Scriptures would not have been fulfilled, the Covenant established and my place with God secured.
Thanks for that.
anyway I am not sure of this will take more then one attempt science city won the race to coluses and observatory I took the aztecs out, but I am finding the happiness is a real challenge on this one I really need to get to theory of gravity and monthiesm so I can make sure I get newtons colledge and bachs cathederal otherwise this is a dud. planing to spam caravans to get me past the line.
I think my science city Veii argubally could be built pretty much where Ravena is but there is no way to get both whale tiles and have a port there. And I hate wasting whale tiles like that.
still wonder if going for both whales the coal and the bison with the river tiles would have been a better move?
On a lighter note, another game I have played for many, many years is the original X-Com. Not saying I've been playing it for yonks, but my 1st version was on a Commodore Amiga
When first played it on an X-box, was surprised that it seemed easier. Turns out there was a glitch on the Amiga version. Didn't matter of you selected "easy" "hard" or whatever. It automatically replaced that with "God" level of difficulty without telling you
PS. Most important thing at start of Civ 2 is starting with an extra Settler.
I think I also got too caught out initially on deity with the happiness penalty It seems much worse then emperor. The second settler is definitely key but so is starting with ceremonial burial (i started with both of these) and getting monarchy quickly. I would normally switch to republic quickly but I think on deity to mitigate unhappiness I would need to stay in Monarchy until I build michs chappel so I can help with that to some extent with troops and then switch to democracy once I have michs chappel.
note yes I did reveal map to show the pic but thats not saved or giving me an advantage so doesnt count as cheating.
GOOD LUCK in the SPT sats starting tonight guys!
Anyway deity run not sure if will succeed or not but currently leading this is very odd
I have been slowed down a lot by war and unhappiness.
For Gods sake Dave live a little before it's too late. Get out and experience something other than mundane anxiety.
Tell you what let's arrange a meet up and I'll take you night hiking, wild swimming, kayaking or SUPing. We can go sport climbing, bouldering, airsofting, or how about we hire a couple of mountain bikes and crack the Marin trail. Zip wiring, caving, scuba or even tombstoning. Cmon buddy call it.
Or you tell me your ultimate adrenalin rush and we just do it, trust me I'm game for anything, but in the name of all that's life, do something.
Seriously it's a genuine offer. And no mention of religion at all, on my word.