~Corsair#01~
Deity
I have a habit of not defending my border cities and also accidentally moving my units to wrong square, but I blame my sucky mouse for that.
Bad Habits
- Thread starter LaserSquad
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I think it depends on the civ and level for me.
I also don't move the palace.
I'm playing on Emperor, and I basically feel that I need to forge ahead to keep up with the computer.
So, I seem to always:
1. Play the beginning of the game to setlle, settle, settle. I ALWAYS wind up getting a temple or a library (if scientific) to fill in my borders. Otherwise, workers and military units. I almost always get 2 military units per city because I need the MP value.
2. Here is where I get tunnel vision. If I need to beat somebody up, I just do that. Otherwise, I build a lot of improvements. I build the improvements to try to make up for the 20% deficit and the happiness penalty. Or, I just churn our swordsman and catapults to conquer and pretty much ignore improvements especially if I am playing somebody like the Romans.
I'm OBSESSED with falling behind in tech. I'm terrified of letting the AI get a spaceship victory. I don't have the confidence I can beat them up if I'm behind a few techs.
3. I never build wonders in the ancient age, but go after them afterwards. In particular, I try to get J.S Bach to largely make up the emperor or higher happiness penalty.
I've played about 10 games fully through now, and I noticed they all seem pretty much the same, or at least there are 2 paths.
Bruce
I also don't move the palace.
I'm playing on Emperor, and I basically feel that I need to forge ahead to keep up with the computer.
So, I seem to always:
1. Play the beginning of the game to setlle, settle, settle. I ALWAYS wind up getting a temple or a library (if scientific) to fill in my borders. Otherwise, workers and military units. I almost always get 2 military units per city because I need the MP value.
2. Here is where I get tunnel vision. If I need to beat somebody up, I just do that. Otherwise, I build a lot of improvements. I build the improvements to try to make up for the 20% deficit and the happiness penalty. Or, I just churn our swordsman and catapults to conquer and pretty much ignore improvements especially if I am playing somebody like the Romans.
I'm OBSESSED with falling behind in tech. I'm terrified of letting the AI get a spaceship victory. I don't have the confidence I can beat them up if I'm behind a few techs.
3. I never build wonders in the ancient age, but go after them afterwards. In particular, I try to get J.S Bach to largely make up the emperor or higher happiness penalty.
I've played about 10 games fully through now, and I noticed they all seem pretty much the same, or at least there are 2 paths.
Bruce
Hi!
My personal bad habit is that i sometimes save the civs who still are in the ancient or medieval when they are being threatened by obliteration from other more powerful civs. I just give them one of my cities and surround it with units.
So i have my personal pets.
Have fun!
My personal bad habit is that i sometimes save the civs who still are in the ancient or medieval when they are being threatened by obliteration from other more powerful civs. I just give them one of my cities and surround it with units.
So i have my personal pets.
Have fun!
EdwardTking
Deity
My worst habits are:
(1) Letting cities go into disorder (I should check at end of turn)
(2) Not building enough workers.
(3) Getting to the city spot one turn too late (AI gets there).
(4) Letting AI pop huts (when playing as expansionist)
(5) Not checking for trade each turn.
(6) Delaying building my first barracks.
(1) Letting cities go into disorder (I should check at end of turn)
(2) Not building enough workers.
(3) Getting to the city spot one turn too late (AI gets there).
(4) Letting AI pop huts (when playing as expansionist)
(5) Not checking for trade each turn.
(6) Delaying building my first barracks.
socralynnek
Civ & Hattrick addict
My worst habit: I almost never build granaries...must come from the time at lower levels where I got Pyramids in almost every game.
. Tedious is a great word for it 
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WackenOpenAir
Deity
I force myself to think and rethink every move i make and so try to perfectionise my game.
A bad habbit would be that if i play to long, i am gonna think less. Therefore, i always just quit playing after an hour or even just half an hour.
Also do i often just open a civ game, then when i look at it, i am too tired to think enough. So i just quit the game and go play diablo2
A bad habbit would be that if i play to long, i am gonna think less. Therefore, i always just quit playing after an hour or even just half an hour.
Also do i often just open a civ game, then when i look at it, i am too tired to think enough. So i just quit the game and go play diablo2
Megabyte said:
omg! you just saved a game of mine! and you dont even know it!
here is the background. anyone here familiar with the bug that a game cant be loaded because of a corruption in the city portion of the saved game? this bug apparently comes sometimes when there is a settler still alive in a civ when the last city is taken. the game becomes corrupt when that settler is killed (ive heard only when on a boat ... hard to be sure). though corrupt it can still be played but any saved game CANNOT be reloaded. anyway i have a great game going that cannot be continued because of this bug although i DO have the last remaining turn before russia's last settler was killed.
solution is (drum roll please ...) ... give russia one of my cities
one bad habit of mine is not building enough military in despotism to police my city happiness.
im starting to get over the part about forgetting to check for trades each turn. im becoming more and more convinced how powerful trade brokering is on the higher difficulty levels.
im starting to get over the part about forgetting to check for trades each turn. im becoming more and more convinced how powerful trade brokering is on the higher difficulty levels.
jkp1187
Unindicted Co-Conspirator
I suffer from the "don't move the capital" syndrome....also, I will sometimes restart/reload if I suffer a severe reverse in the late game.....
Sometimes I find it hard to trade particularly good techs (on the higher levels) even though my cash-flow depends on it--a bad habit left over from the Civ II/SMAC days. I nearly lost the space race to Egypt in one game because I didn't trade them a new tech immediately, and lost the massive cash influx that I'd become addicted to.
The nice thing about multiplayer is that while waiting for the others to go, I have time to check out what the AI players have, and make some trades... in a solo game, it's easy to just move, move, move and hit [enter].
Sometimes I find it hard to trade particularly good techs (on the higher levels) even though my cash-flow depends on it--a bad habit left over from the Civ II/SMAC days. I nearly lost the space race to Egypt in one game because I didn't trade them a new tech immediately, and lost the massive cash influx that I'd become addicted to.
The nice thing about multiplayer is that while waiting for the others to go, I have time to check out what the AI players have, and make some trades... in a solo game, it's easy to just move, move, move and hit [enter].
Not building granaries early and not building enough workers early (a linked bad habit).
I use the governor to control happiness too--I guess it is a bad habit, but otherwise I just lose too many turns to civil disorder. Another habit I have is that I hate being the cause of wars, so my inevitable wars too often occur at a time chosen by my opponents rather than me. I used to have the bad habit of never, ever giving in to blackmail or allowing enemy units to move through my territory, but moving up in difficulty levels has forced me to abandon that one. I never move my capital either.
I use the governor to control happiness too--I guess it is a bad habit, but otherwise I just lose too many turns to civil disorder. Another habit I have is that I hate being the cause of wars, so my inevitable wars too often occur at a time chosen by my opponents rather than me. I used to have the bad habit of never, ever giving in to blackmail or allowing enemy units to move through my territory, but moving up in difficulty levels has forced me to abandon that one. I never move my capital either.
Damnyankee
Honest Abe
I have a bad habit of going on a settler rampage where i would do nothing but build settlers to expand my empire. Before i knew it, i had a massive weak empire, and the inca demanded tribute, and i NEVER PAY TRIBUTE. So half my empire is swallowed before i build a force and revcapture the cities. but it takes time. Though i am breaking out of this habit. Now i build the captal, worker, spearman, settler, and over and over again to make sure im not weak and my empire expands
I have another one -- I have trouble declaring war on countries that are nice to me. I keep hoping to beat them up, and I hope they do something to provoke me. I just can't attack somebody with no provocation.
I may have a different view if I play the Mongols .....
Bruce
I may have a different view if I play the Mongols .....
Bruce
Breunor said:
I had always played as too much of a scientist/builder before, so I tried a warmongering game as the mayans, when I talked to Wang Kon (korea) he said "What happened to the Smoke-Jaguar we used to know and love?" That made me feel really bad about taking all their land 
. I quickly learned from it - never play against korea as a warmonger 
Volstag
Chairman of the Bored
City improvements. Can't... seem... to... shake... it. My last game was a domination victory, and yet I found myself squandering upwards of 20 turns (between major military actions) to build improvements throughout the empire. I would tell myself, "This is useless. Keep pumping units and destroy all that oppose you."
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Globo
Chieftain
Yep those improvements, I just got to have 'em. Never mind if my military suffers. I also have the very bad habit of being too quick when negotiating sometimes even making grave mistakes like missing a '0' and choosing OK. That is a problem since I never break deals.
Somebody earlier mentioned smoking .... me too, it's a bad habit at the best of times but Civ increases my cigarette consumption 4 times. Plus don't ask me how but I have some crazy thing with smears on my monitor. Normally it stays rather clean. I'm not aware of it - yep: frightning
- but by the time pollution gets an issue in the game there are so many smears and stains on my screen and so much ashes in my keyboard that I could use a worker myself.
Somebody earlier mentioned smoking .... me too, it's a bad habit at the best of times but Civ increases my cigarette consumption 4 times. Plus don't ask me how but I have some crazy thing with smears on my monitor. Normally it stays rather clean. I'm not aware of it - yep: frightning
- but by the time pollution gets an issue in the game there are so many smears and stains on my screen and so much ashes in my keyboard that I could use a worker myself.
