Update My Resume or Play More CivIV?
Decisions, decisions.
Sorry for the lack of posts from me, yet again this week. I’ll just leave at this: there’s a bad moon rising where I work and most of my time has gone to quietly burying my head near my computer and diving under the desk whenever I hear too many footsteps heading in the vicinity of my cube.
At home I’m still pretty much in Civ4 mode, exclusively. After cruising to an easy space race victory on the Noble level using, hmm… I think it was Egypt, I bumped it up to Prince for my next game (using Mali). This is the first level where the AI is given research and production advantages that human players don’t get and I finished that Wednesday night, losing a narrow space race victory to the Americans. I thought I was going to cruise in this one too, but the Americans snuck up on me in the tech race while I was kicking the crap out of Germany (our “close borders sparked tentions”). Despite my best attempts to slow Washington down using spies to sabotage his ship production, along with a couple nukes, he was able to beat me to space by about a half-dozen or so turns.
So last night I started up yet another new game and have gotten off to a middling start. It’s really easy to build a culturally dominant Civ in this game (especially if you can found two or three religions), but it’s much more difficult to build a strong military without sacrificing city development. I’ve been able to take over or get near the top of the list for most of the production/commerce categories, but I haven’t been able to match the AI’s advantage in researching technologies. Right now two other civs have opened sizable tech leads on me and I’m stuck having to build enough infrastructure for me to raise my rate of research, when what I really want to do is take a boatload of elephants, catapults and crossbow units over to Caeser’s palace and host a wine-tasting party using his severed head to serve the drinks. Is that so wrong?