I started playing the easy level and, well, it’s too easy ;-) So I started playing the medium level hoping for a better challenge. The medium level was more challenging but it made me angry that the AI seems to cheat! It attacks all cities that are vulnerable… It just seems to magically know what city is the weakest at any given time. This happens too early in the game so it couldn’t possible have spies?

So what level’s do you play and why?

Time to pull some of those tricks in the 'Science boost' thread.

If I win this game, I'll probabley move up...

Well..My Thanks to all fellow CTP:2'ers..Go get 'em and I will let you know how game ends..I am at around 1480 A.D...or so

Three easy and quick ways of changing the game to get harder.

Change the const file.

1. Sliders (beef up the wages)
2. AI time slice atleast times 5 dramtically improve my games

3. Give the AI more production bonus.

quote: Originally posted by Troll on 12-03-2000 07:43 PM Well..I play MP..in the lan setup...single player with AI's and exclude those special units..ALL..except Diplomats..(This means Lawyers, Corporate Branches.Slavers..Clerics..Televangilists Spys..and all others)..I also exclude Settlers...and Urban Planners..so I and AI's Start with 9 settlers..I started at Modern level..but unlike CTP:1..I can start at Modern era..but begin at 4000 BC..making me a longer game...I also Exclude all Wonders...Then I go to town..I played first game at medium and Whooped up Ai Pretty bad..Now I am on IMPOSSIBLE Level..it is a lot more realistic..I have 3 ai's.plus Barbarians..and Gigantic Map..about 70% land,70% continentLots of Goods, Warm and Dry...Doughnut World Lowest Barbarian setting..I have lost and gained back 9 cities..I have 15 cities..(Having found some in Ruins)...I am First in Overall..First in Economy, 3rd in Military and 2nd in Science..I am pretty happy with everything..the diplomacy issue seems ok.(although it would be nice to have some gifts on occassion).I have yet to recieve any gifts..i have however been able to GIVE..lol....I am really enjoying..I also want to Thank Activision for putting the Exclude button in Single player..so us DUMMIES..dont have to re-write any codes... ..in the Launch Editor... Well..My Thanks to all fellow CTP:2'ers..Go get 'em and I will let you know how game ends..I am at around 1480 A.D...or so Troll

Ok I am now at 1988..and have wiped out The Germans..who had a total of 19 cities..having started at 9 and they found rest in ruins..now I am on to green civ..to wipe them out!!!!

Impossible level is kinda tough...a real challenge!

Troll

I just started another game on Medium, having given up on the previous game. However, the rankings show that I'm not doing too well

Men, any good spy tricks?

So Easy, Not Worth Playing

Ultra-Super Easy

Super Easy

Very Easy

I try to spy on smaller cities. They seem to have a better chance for some reason. Also if your oppenent is a fascist its very hard. The fascists see your spies and wack em.

If at first you dont succeed send more =)

i just bought the game a week ago, i played ctp2 once on median level 8 civ, random map, with heavy slavery, i am in a huge lead by 1945 and i quit.

i played again at hard/toughest barbarians as Americans on Activition world map with a full offensive strategy and got a big lead and stopped.

now i am playing japanese at impossible/toughest barbarians with 8 civ popultion on, on Activition world map.

A big advantage of starting on a world map is that u know the exact starting location of each civ after checking who are the enenmies through the score window. With AI's lousy war intelligence, this enables u to carry out a full offensive strategy.

it takes me about 50 turns to research shipbuilding since japanese starts from a tiny island, reasonably accomodates only one city, without the simpliest ship, japanese can't expand at all. during the research i keep building warriors/hoptiles, etc, with this strategy i never build any wonders or settlers or slavers (since my sci is so much behind, by the time slaver is available, all enemy cities got city walls) i only build sometimes happiness enhancing city improvements only at those borderline happiness cities so that i can keep production, sci and food at the extreme levels.

initially, it appears AI only has one defenders in a city, so with 2-3 warriors attaching each city, i took 3 size 3-4 cities from Thai. After that, archer becomes available, so i build 3 6-unit armies with 3 archers in each army, such army in turn takes 3-4 cities from Persians. My territory expansion slows down by the time i reaches Greek, who uses full 12-unit army to defend each city, the way i defeat such defense is to build 3 12-unit armies, surrounding the city, the first 2 armies will attach the city and by the time the archers are on the front line, i retreat the army (lost 4-5 units), and the last (3rd) army finishes the job.

Now the time is 40AD, i have been Republic for a few turns now, forgot to mention that with so many cities adn trading goods, once trade is available i give sci a huge jump by producing caravans at fast as possible to utilize all avaliable trade routes.

i am setting research goal to Geometry to build (catapults) bombard units, since Athans has a nice wonder and only has one land tile connecting to it, which makes my surrounding attack tactics useless with with 6 pikemans and 6 archers.

checking the status score, only native Americans got more armies than i do, and i am already top in econ with the largest number of cities i got (assume), and my sci speed is catching up very close. After about 2.5 hours playing my territory now covers the whole asia.