morchuflex
Emperor
Hello.
I've been playing Civ3 for one year on a 3 to 6 hours per day basis, but had never completed a game so far.
The reasons?
- Many games are obviously won or lost very early. I hate both impossible challenges and easy victories.
- Each time I learn stg new or imagine a new strategy, I feel like restarting to experiment it.
But tonight, I've at last finished one game and won a space race victory (on Emperor level).
It was INCREDIBLY BORING.
Winning took me 31 hours, and most of the last 15 was spent doing two things:
1. Moving hoards of workers around to clean pollution, and re-allocating citizens to the tiles after they had been cleaned, since the damn city cannot do it by itself!
2. Staring at my screen while the animation gets stuck about 30 seconds at the end of every upkeep phase. I don't know what can take so much time, but since it gets longer as the game goes on, I assume it has to do with the zillions of useless units built by the AI. Still, I would expect a three-year old game to run faster on a state-of-the-art computer...
So, unfortunately, I think I'll revert to my previous habit of never finishing games. I'm also starting to understand why so many people prefer a warmongering style of play: it ends faster!
Anyway, I feel a bit bitter at the moment, as if I had lost my faith.
I've been playing Civ3 for one year on a 3 to 6 hours per day basis, but had never completed a game so far.
The reasons?
- Many games are obviously won or lost very early. I hate both impossible challenges and easy victories.
- Each time I learn stg new or imagine a new strategy, I feel like restarting to experiment it.
But tonight, I've at last finished one game and won a space race victory (on Emperor level).
It was INCREDIBLY BORING.
Winning took me 31 hours, and most of the last 15 was spent doing two things:
1. Moving hoards of workers around to clean pollution, and re-allocating citizens to the tiles after they had been cleaned, since the damn city cannot do it by itself!
2. Staring at my screen while the animation gets stuck about 30 seconds at the end of every upkeep phase. I don't know what can take so much time, but since it gets longer as the game goes on, I assume it has to do with the zillions of useless units built by the AI. Still, I would expect a three-year old game to run faster on a state-of-the-art computer...
So, unfortunately, I think I'll revert to my previous habit of never finishing games. I'm also starting to understand why so many people prefer a warmongering style of play: it ends faster!
Anyway, I feel a bit bitter at the moment, as if I had lost my faith.
, almost 
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, but some of the latter 
