Also any combat bonuses against Barbarians and Animals decrease to zero. In the beginning you get a Happiness and a Health bonus.

Deity – AI get Archery, Hunting, Agriculture, The Wheel.Immortal – AI get Archery, Hunting, Agriculture.Chieftain – you get The Wheel, Agriculture.Settler – you get The Wheel, Agriculture, Mining.The easiest example is the FreeTechs modifier at the bottom: On the lower 3 difficulties, you still get bonuses, playing the middle 3 levels of difficulty, the odds are quite even, until on the highest 3 levels the AI gets bonuses – on Deity these are massive. When you start playing Civilization 4 (or any part of Civ for that matter), playing on Settler (lowest) difficulty grants the player various bonuses. “Nevermind” put a nice spreadsheet on CivFanatics, accurately listing the AI bonuses and Player penalties when playing on Deity ->. Civ 4 Deity – What are we dealing with? Lists all AI bonuses and player penalties for various difficulties A hundred years later it would have become a conquest victory, but I didn’t want to take the risk and left domination victory active.

I played the Inca on a huge continents map and won by domination. So here’s my collection of hints and remarks, things that made my life easier, and things that made it harder. But you’ll know this, if you’re looking for Deity Strategies. First of all: In a game like Civilization there’s no such thing as the “one way to win”.