When talking about how to play, it’s important to specify the game conditions: vs. Later decisions are mostly made opportunistically. Three basic strategies are discussed in this document, all dealing with how to start a game. General plans and ideas can be refined and improved specific choices will mostly be forgotten. I think it is important to have a general strategy or plan of play, largely because it forces you to think in general terms rather than floating from specific choice to specific choice. The most serious problem is lack of good land sometimes you just have to quit and start over, or be content with a long uphill struggle. A fast start and efficient management, plus some luck, should let you hold your own in a "standard" 2x2x king-level multiplayer game deity level AI is often tougher in the early stages. Growth in civilization works like compounding interest. Of course, all plans may go awry, which is one reason I find this wonderful game remains playable after ten years or more of intense involvement. I then will be in position to conquer the world or build the spaceship. I also work to advance my technology as fast as possible to get, first, an improved government, and second, important military technologies and the later wonders. My overall plan, whether against the computer or against human players, at any difficulty level, is to grow my civilization as quickly as possible by building settlers and founding many new cities, not taking time for irrigation, mines, extensive roads, granaries, or Ancient Wonders (except I go for the Pyramids at deity level). Early PDS Strategy for King-Level Multiplayer Games.Introduction: Choice of Overall Strategy.I strongly recommend this article to both newbies and veterans of the game. Compared to Marc Fisher’s Fire! – Making War in Civilization II (also an excellent article), How I play Civ2 takes a more practical approach, while Fire! emphasizes more on conceptual and philosophical aspects of the game. Not only does it contain detailed strategy against the AI, there are also TONS of excellent advice for winning multiplayer games against human players. Editor’s Note: Alan Nicoll‘s How I Play Civ2 is the most comprehensive Civilization II strategy article I have seen.
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