If I understand correctly, the Tough difficulty is supposed to be when all algortihims are in place, correct? For the past few games I have been playing through with 9 races on Intelligent and everytime it seems that it's too easy. Of course the answer to this is to increase the difficulty, but I wondered what a game on this difficulty would be like if I did not build any military ships. So I did.
The result? A cultural victory to me. Now, The AI loved me from the beginning and I have no idea what I did. I was researching my techs and then selling them to everyone else and I ended up researching everything up to cultural domination. My influenece spread like no other and while everyone else was fighting their own wars, their planets were swiftly rebelling to my name. Maybe I was doing something right, but never once did any AI relations with me go below Neutral, even with a zero military rating.
I guess once the next patch comes out this won't happen as often, but until then, I guess I'll be playing Crippling or something.
Hooray.
Now if I could only get through the proxies at my University to get on Metaverse... I'm scoring about 25,000-50,000 on all of my games.
