Primacide
Settler
I have developed an inflated ego regarding ciV now that I regularly play and win on deity. However, to keep this in check, I believe it's time for all the high level players to fess up: when do you lose? What are the conditions in which you just say, "oh dear god, not again!"
As the first to confess, I have to say meeting Shaka within ten turns. I know, I know, just bribe him to war against someone else. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, you just don't have the money. I have gotten turn-45-rolled by a near warmonger more times than I can count.
A close second: trying to get a culture victory. I usually make it to about 250 turns into a game. I have the Internet. I have dug up the planet. I have won the international games. However: Poland is about to can-into-space. The Iroquois have settled even Antarctica and are two capitals away from a Dom Vic. And there's always one stupid AI who isn't even close to winning the game with whom I cannot become influential. (I'm lookin at you, Brazil!). I look at the current rate of tourism and say "all right, ten turns and I'll have him. Three turns later, I look at the tourism screen and say, "all right, ten turns and I'll have him." Ad nauseum. Then the balloon goes up - Hiawatha attacks and Poland is off playing beyond earth.
What is your particular Achilles heel?
As the first to confess, I have to say meeting Shaka within ten turns. I know, I know, just bribe him to war against someone else. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, you just don't have the money. I have gotten turn-45-rolled by a near warmonger more times than I can count.
A close second: trying to get a culture victory. I usually make it to about 250 turns into a game. I have the Internet. I have dug up the planet. I have won the international games. However: Poland is about to can-into-space. The Iroquois have settled even Antarctica and are two capitals away from a Dom Vic. And there's always one stupid AI who isn't even close to winning the game with whom I cannot become influential. (I'm lookin at you, Brazil!). I look at the current rate of tourism and say "all right, ten turns and I'll have him. Three turns later, I look at the tourism screen and say, "all right, ten turns and I'll have him." Ad nauseum. Then the balloon goes up - Hiawatha attacks and Poland is off playing beyond earth.
What is your particular Achilles heel?