Its not about being rude to people, its about defending myself when people are rude to me. I do not act maliciously against people who are honest and kind. I was banned from the Take-Two message board because I was bringing up serious concerns about the balance and bug issues of the game. The take-two team than allowed people to flame me, but when I defended myself I was banned. If you notice all the threads on the take-two board that bring down the game are eventually closed or edited because they obviously don't want people to know the truth about their product until they purchase it, than they laugh all the way to the bank. If this is going to be a place that intends to cover up problems with the game and edit every time I defend myself was flames, than this is not the forum for me.
If you people have questions about the game, I am willing to answer as many of them as I can. I want you all to first understand that I focus on MP games and not games against the AI, but for those trying to beat the game on Deity it is very simple, so do the following.
1) Pick Rome
2) Expand extremely quickly to choke points as fast as possible so that AI can't get by you, if there are no major choke points than get to a good location from a hill so you can have a defense bonus. In the front cities build archers / Pikemen and keep in mind that you can make lots of early gold from huts / selling tecs to AI.
3) In the back city expand as much as possible so you have 5-20 cities as soon as possible.
4) Continually buy settlers and fill a mega city as soon as you get gold so that you don't achieve any economic requirements except possibly the first 2 that way the AI doesn't attack you.
5) Buy a market, bank, Tradefair, East Indian company, Colossus, courthouse, factory and (Internet if you have the tec for it) in the 1 city that you are trying to get to 31 population. Make sure the 31 population city is the 1 city that has the most water tiles next to it.
6) Don't worry about buying a single other building in any city besides the 31 population city and instead spend all your money on buying settlers.
7) Try to get a great merchant to add to your city that you are getting to 31 population and switch to Democracy as soon as you get enough settlers to make the city to 31 population.
8) If you get a city to 20 population build the hanging gardens to cut even more time out of the equation.
9) Just focus on defense and don't worry about attacking a single other civilization.
10) Getting the Oxford after getting industrialization will give you bombers which will secure your defense until you receive an Economic victory or you can just go for a conquest victory with the bombers.
11) After you build all of the right buildings in your 31 population city you can build a Temple and a cathedral and the Shakespeare theater to easily get 300 culture a turn in 1 city and make it impossible for anyone to take over any of your cities because you will instantly convert them back plus get lots of great people.
12) Focus on getting the right bonuses in the begining, but the bonuses arn't everything and you are fine without them.
13) Build a few units to scout outside your choke points and a few gallys to scout over the water so you have a 3-5 turn heads up on any units coming towards you.
14) After your 31 population city has built all of the above buildings you start building the military industrial complex, and as soon as the World Bank is enabled you take all your population that was working the gold on the ocean and you have them work inside your 31 population city so that each population is now bringing in hammers. Switch production to the world bank and you can get the world bank in 1-3 turns.
15) With all of the above you should be easily able to get an economic victory in the first 60 turns of the game or a Military victory in the First 80 turns of the game.
Simple as that :D
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