Hi, I'm a newbie to C-evo and I've lost several times in games with moderate difficulty and random maps. I've read somewhere that C-evo is very deterministic, unlike the traditional Civ games. I take this to mean that making the wrong decisions early on in the game results in losing.
In several games, I've noticed that there always several nations defeated fairly early in the game within a fairly close time period of one another. At first I didn't know why, but after turning on the full map view, There's always one nation that got very powerful and advanced.
Given that the AI for every nonhuman player is the same and the game being deterministic, the only thing that varies is the human player's skill and access to resources since the map is randomly generated. If every AI starts out equally, then they should advance technologically at the same rate and they should last longer than an unskilled human player.
I think that because the randomly generated map is unbalanced in terms of resource placement and geography, victory is already favored towards the player that has the best access to resources. So it's either I'm imagining things or this is how the game works.
Posted 26-Jun-08 09:00 by billronald