Irenaeus
Self-Ejected
Finally beat the game (setting : iron man, random large map, few ocean and tech stagnation with an ini edit to slow tech progress even more) playing Morgan.
So :
1. start in a good spot (awesome is not required)
2.blob like a retard, zero army. You should almost always secure enough land to develop.
3.act like a coward and gave everything the others ask even if it hurts (you will catch on them latter...hopefully)
4.help massively and early enough to be helpful any faction that begin to have a disadvantage by giving tech in order not to create a rival superpower faction
5.spam borehole as much as you can with supply crawler units.
6.prey everything work, that nobody attack you and not a truly superpower faction has been created meanwhile
6.win by tech/monopoly
Edit : tech progression is still way too fast toward the middle end (the last third of the game) despite my setting hugely lowering it. However decreasing it even more will make the 1/3 of the game way too slow (it's already borderline right now).
Any way to change the rate of tech progression in order to slow it in the last third without making it a crawl at the beginning ?
Yeah, I'd like that too, but I fear it can't be done unless you increase the cost of later techs. No idea how to do it.