I just got the game, and am finding the game unbelievably difficult.
The gameplay is fine, I understand the mechanics, however my champions are getting destroyed, and my cities overrun.
Note I am playing on Novice, but still creatures are overpowering me.
I would expect the lowest difficulty to "cheat" and always remain bellow my level in development and champions power. Such as pretty much all games do when playing on the simplest level.
So what the F am I doing wrong????? I am seriously POed. The fun is sucked right out!!
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As much as this conversation is VERY interesting, I don't appreciate turning my topic into a self-admiration statement topic.
Sorry. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
Yeah... this is why I decided to post useful, on-topic comments in your youtube channel instead.
Sorry Yamhee, I didn't want to insult you. Just having fun with Xia and not making fun of you. So, for the info, pretty much everyone has giving good info. I'm a turtler type so I like to have my Sov having all the magic book at start, Merchant for proffession (making more money) brilliant (+1 tech knowloedge without study so I start researching on the first season), meditative (+1 arcane knowledge same reason as brilliant) green thumb so I can build my hut on the first turn and naturalist for having a mine near my start location. After that, I go for Civilisation tech first (most of the time I take harvest to take advantage of my mine), after magic (shard harveting) and after Warfare with equipment. After this, I continu to research civilisation until I ran into an ennemy sovereign.My focus on civilisation is:Harvest/Civic (may be switch), Production, construction, economy, literacy (or education, can't remember), housing, education (or litaracy) and after improve housing. For the building queue, I go for hut, farm, workshop,hut, beacon of hope, workshop, workshop, study, study, study, study, hut, hut. For sure, when I can, I make the construction yard to boost my construction time. I train only when I first encounter with my hero new sov.
For the magic, I reasearch first Fertility (+1 prestige) and teleport, reasearch lvl2, lvl3, call to arm, lvl4 and after enchanted hammer.After, I reasearch what I want.I want to reasearch call to arm fast because I don't train much troop, so when an ennemy declare war (it don't happen very much because I made some treaty with them really early and after I make alliance, work nice on challenging so novice should be fine too) I must pump out troop so call to arm is really of a capital importance to me.
Of course, I don't do that always in this order and I don't reasearch ONLY civilisation, I reasearch also adventure for new ressource and diplomacy for new ally (spider and shrill are very power early game and cost only money, no material/ore so it's good if you dont have many other ressource.But you get the point: my main focus is on Civilisation to establish some few strong city and after that, I expand with call to arm. That's pretty much it. It won't work on very agressive AI/player but on novice it should work fine.
Here's something to try to make the game a little easier for beginners. Set the World size to large and the pacing to epic. It sounds counter intuitive but it spreads out the other factions and slows done the pace of the game. It will give you some time & space to build up your civilization using the steps already descibed. Also pick a Sov with Warlord (or create a character with that Job), that will give you 2 Sentinels which are very helpful in early game. You probably won't finish this game, but it should let you get a feel for what works. If you're lucky you'll even meet your first neighbor when they're not that much more advanced & you can try to take them over without worring about someone else attacking your back door.
LOL, I just tried another Sandbox game, and the AI did the exact same thing. Surrounded me and spammed out cities to take over every resource.
That's an interesting approach scifi1950. I just might try that next time.
Right now, I think I will make a "Let's Play" of the Campaign. See if I can get past bug this time.
I'm actually enjoying making YouTube videos of my game. I can go back and see what I did and work out different strategies. Pretty helpful. And it's nice to see if I can get in touch with some other fans of the game. The comments/feedback is more helpful when you have a video to refer to.
I too find the novice setting on the sandbox mode exceptionally difficult. I'm going to try with fewer opponents on the map next.
Another option for people having difficulty with the game is to play version 109e. The powerful offensive spells can be accessed fairly early - My favorites were fire dart, fire ball and inferno. Once i got Inferno i could easily destroy any AI race troubling me without even breaking a sweat! Precisely why it got packed behind a wall of technology in 1.1 i suppose!!
I did this once, the only problem was by the time I found them, they were ridiculously overpowered. Granted it was a few patches back. The AI wasn't as good, but damn did they have a lot of cities. It took for ever to even find the Karavox.
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