Notice this isn’t much to ask for – i’d say that’s a fairly typical start – just avoid the really poor ones. A reasonable start location would be something like 3 hills, 4 forests, 3 good food tiles (can be floodplains). We’re only going to have one city, so one ice tile and a beaver isn’t going to work. Speed – I like epic, so your dates may vary if you prefer other.No reloading, ever (this game is going to involve 293802938 fights, and you’ll go nuts even trying to reload).Allow permanent alliances checked – this is the one ‘non-default’ setting used.More to the point with only one city we wont be able to construct boats unless we start on the coast. At this point the “national wonder multiplied” production ability of OCC will be leveraged to churn out high XP units and flatten the AI before they pull too far ahead again. A PA will be obtained around 1400-1500AD (epic), recovering tech parity. Tech parity with the AI will be lost around 1ad, and the focus shifted to infrastructure development including land and national wonders until 1400ad (epic). The goal during this phase will be to focus on tech, using a trick or two to keep tech parity, while surviving and leveling a unit up to unlock heroic epic and Westpoint Period from 4000bc-1ad will typically be one continuous defensive war. Note that this strategy will allow a space or diplo victory, however to achieve either you will almost certainly need military superiority to distract (read: beat down) the AI, hence the main focus is on a domination win. A small map with 18 opponents is recommended for your first attempt, if you haven’t beaten deity before or if you haven’t played a one city challenge before. There are no blatant exploits used and no specific map size or number of opponents are required, however it is easier if you use more than the default number of opponents recommended for a given map size – the more cities any one AI controls the more obscene their research and production will be. It makes use of a “permanent alliance slingshot” to enable domination. It’s designed to not need any special resources or any world wonders. This is a strategy to get a deity level domination victory using one city.

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