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Diplomatic or Culture....I never win time and Dom because they are off though
What type of victory do you achieve LEAST often?
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Crowqueen
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Time victory and cultural victory. I'd like to see them for the end of game movies, but never mind 
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Had all the others, or abandoned the game if it looks like being a long drawn out slog through the modern era without significant destructive possibilities. At the moment I'm more aggressive than I was when I started playing - on Chieftain I usually managed to get diplomatic victories, then later on I developed better aggressive strategies and I even tried axe-rushing someone (Isabella trapped beneath me on a peninsula) the other day, and it worked!
.Had all the others, or abandoned the game if it looks like being a long drawn out slog through the modern era without significant destructive possibilities. At the moment I'm more aggressive than I was when I started playing - on Chieftain I usually managed to get diplomatic victories, then later on I developed better aggressive strategies and I even tried axe-rushing someone (Isabella trapped beneath me on a peninsula) the other day, and it worked!
TheMeInTeam
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Time. Seriously, who wins time once you're playing noble +? If you're doing well enough that you could win time, you'll probably win something else. Usually, the AI will culture you or launch the ship before 2050, especially on Emperor+, but even before then.
Other than that, I almost never bother with culture or space. Of the two, I pretty much never pursue culture, having only won that way twice. Space sometimes I'll do either as part of a challenge (win this game 1: cathy no cottages/wonders space race for example) or because I feel like making the game slower.
90% of my wins are either domination/conquest of diplomacy (often AP). My #1 victory type in the past 2 months or so is AP diplomatic victory, usually after bumping a civ or three off the planet.
Other than that, I almost never bother with culture or space. Of the two, I pretty much never pursue culture, having only won that way twice. Space sometimes I'll do either as part of a challenge (win this game 1: cathy no cottages/wonders space race for example) or because I feel like making the game slower.
90% of my wins are either domination/conquest of diplomacy (often AP). My #1 victory type in the past 2 months or so is AP diplomatic victory, usually after bumping a civ or three off the planet.
Jimmyballz
Executive
Yet to see it happen. Seems as if the AI would really have to trip up, or you would have to play an "offensive defense" to raze the SS, AP, or legendary cities, then the time victory would just be a lame default win imho...
AfterShafter
Deity
Conquest and/or domination - won each only once. Bored the living hell out of me.
MqsTout
Warlord
My least common is diplomatic -- I play with diplomatic victory off. I can't stand the EXTREME happiness penalties for defying a resolution, and I'll be damned if I'm going to adopt Environmentalism.
Elkad
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Never won cultural or Diplo.
While I like building, I don't like building that much. And I refuse to play the "join me in adopting whatever" game for diplo, or gift techs, or accept the hordes of random demands, so its rare I can get more than 3-4 civs to vote for me. I actually lose a fair amount of games to diplo despite being ahead. Vote pops up out of the blue, I get 4-5 civs to vote for me, and the other 11 all bandwagon to an AI.
While I like building, I don't like building that much. And I refuse to play the "join me in adopting whatever" game for diplo, or gift techs, or accept the hordes of random demands, so its rare I can get more than 3-4 civs to vote for me. I actually lose a fair amount of games to diplo despite being ahead. Vote pops up out of the blue, I get 4-5 civs to vote for me, and the other 11 all bandwagon to an AI.
MqsTout
Warlord
What's funny is Diplomatic victory is basically impossible in a fully multiplayer game, except as a pseudo-domination victory if you can control the votes with enough population.
PaulusIII
Unholy Warlord
Time. My games never last until 2050 AD.
TheMeInTeam
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You'd be hard pressed to win any non-military victory in a fully multiplayer game. If you go culture you'll probably get bum rushed and one of the cities razed, you lose then. Space is a little less dicey but again parts are expensive and while you build them other people will be making military (unless your past military exploits have gotten you big enough to evade a concentrated effort at your capitol after launch, but then again that's a more military victory).
Diplomatic would be pretty funny. There should be the option to buy/sell votes in multiplayer for techs or something. that way players could take risks for techs at the expense of being forced to vote for a player and potentially losing/having something he doesn't want passed.
Fresh Oracle
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I've really enjoyed domination a few times. Only when most of the civs are on the same land mass, though.
Ditto for me.
I've gotten close, but built the spaceship in the nick of time.
TheMeInTeam
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Why am I reading that domination/conquest take a long time? I can't see how it's possibly any longer than a space race. Slower than culture or early diplo, but only by what, an hour or so? Or do you play with battle animations on and watch monty's knights get shot down 1 by one for 5 hours 
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I second this post. I have a hard time making 'friends' in Civ4, especially when I'm playing the Romans, Mongols, or Boudica.
TheMeInTeam
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Vassals make great "friends"...
AfterShafter
Deity
It's simply a matter of taste. Military is, for me, the most mundane/common element of Civ IV. I mean, there are some interesting tactics, and I don't shy away from a good fight, but the CPU is ill suited to deal with an intelligent opponent, and it just feels like a slog to me. Diplomatic, cultural, and space all require interacting with the CPU for most of the game in ways that I just don't feel conquest/domination does - and as such, it feels like those options put on the back burner so much of what makes Civ Civ.
NintendoTogepi
Noble Pacifist
Conquest. I've only gotten it once or twice. Same thing for Domination, and also Time for that matter.
Mostly Space Race for me, but also a fair share of Diplomatic and Culture.
Mostly Space Race for me, but also a fair share of Diplomatic and Culture.
Clam Spammer
Prince
I've never had a Time victory. I just don't have the patience to sit through 750 turns without pursuing a real victory. Every other type I have won at least once, although my Conquest win was an OCC where I didn't have the option of keeping captured cities.
r_rolo1
King of myself
Definitely time.... for me time is not even a winning option. 2nd is clearly Cultural, 3rd is diplo.
I most of the times win by space... not that I shun a good bloodbath once in a while
I most of the times win by space... not that I shun a good bloodbath once in a while
omnimutant
Warlord
Space, Time, Diplo, Score, Culture I win the least, because I always turn those off. I used to have fun winning those but the game got to repetitive and boring for me with those conditions. I only run Conquest and Domination conditions now. That way the games last however long it takes to wipe everyone out, or be wiped out myself.
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