Civilizations and politics

[Silica_Pathways]

Little poll about the way you choose civ your playing, does your political views affect your choise.

 

[Corvex]

Politics doesn't so much bias me against certain civs (most civs have gone through a great many government types. For example, I like modern Germany, but I hate the Nazis). But it does make me somewhat less likely to choose certain government types. Namely, if I want to run a dictatorship in modern times, I'll run a communist one rather than a fascist one.

 

[Tomoyo]

Politics do not influence me in any way. The only outside force that influences me is historical accuracy. In Rise of Rome, as Rome, I would most likely not touch the Goths, for example, or expand into Romania.

 

[Pentium]

I once made a campain (a series of games) where I was Churchill, Hitler, Stalin and Roosevelt. All won except America. Otherwise I don't care about history.

 

[Richard Cribb]

Politics are in general very important to me, but civ3 is recreation and in my opinion has no place there.
However I like to play civs which history interests me like Persia, China or Hatti, even if my favourite is "random".
And in honour of my wife I usually play as Poland in different mods/scenarios.

 

[Jamesds]

Politics don't influence me in civ choice, sometimes with goverment choices though

 

[sadu]

If I play Greeks, I'll always go out of my way to smite the persians, just like Alexander did in 334BC.

Likewise, If I play mongols, I like to smite everyone

Basically, I choose the civ based on the traits and experience / victory type I want (mongols a poor choice for diplomatic victory). If I can recreate history along the way, then it just adds to the fun.

 

[puglover]

I usually try to make my games European and Mid East melees, with no American or Asian civs.

 

[thescaryworker]

Usually, I choose whatever my mouse can click on first. Other times, I'll choose between: Greece, Persia, Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Japan, and Iroquis.

 

[DBear]

Ideologies change during time and in a game spanning over 6000 years it's silly to hold certain ideologies against a particular nation. I don't mind playing China though I detest Mao. I'll even play the Zulus though I don't think they're worthy of being a civ.

Now SMAC is a whole different matter. Those factions are ideology driven and I refuse to play the Hive. Die Yang Die!

 

[Goles]

I always choose "random" for all stats, including which civ to play. I think the game is better when you dont know what kind of world your on, and how good your civs traits will be for that world.
My political views do tend to influence my type of gouvernment though.

 

[Dreadnought]

I too put mostly everything at random. However, depending on what civ I am, I'll be more/less aggressive. I like: Greece, Egypt, Rome, Byzantines. Iroquois, Dutch, and Germans. I don't like certain civs only if they have bad stats (I don't like Arabia's stats, for example).

 

[wilbill]

I play random civilizations. I find that works well with my random political views.

 

[paulfish]

Random for me then I don't fall into a rut.

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Ideologies change during time and in a game spanning over 6000 years it's silly to hold certain ideologies against a particular nation. I don't mind playing China though I detest Mao. I'll even play the Zulus though I don't think they're worthy of being a civ.

Now SMAC is a whole different matter. Those factions are ideology driven and I refuse to play the Hive. Die Yang Die!

QFA.

Brother Lal 4 life!

Ditto the Provost Zakharov!

 

[morchuflex]

In Civ I don't care about politics.

I do care however about what I'd call the tribe's "flair", or "flavor". I never play Americans (USA), not for the sake of "Bush-bashing", but because it's not a very colorful tribe (and that UU... :thumbdown ). I also tend to neglect Iroquois because of these absurd city names.

In real life, I teach French, Latin and (ancient) Greek literature. That's probably why I prefer civs with a long and rich culture spanning history, especially European or Mediterranean ones. I mostly play Egypt, Byzantines, Rome, Greece, France, Carthage, and also Japan and China.
But of course, traits and UU also matter a lot. I hardly ever play agricultural civs because it's a bit unbalancing, and expansionistic ones because they suck on hard levels.

In SMAC however, much like DBear, I am extremely sensitive about politics. I play Gaians 90% of the time, occasionnally the University or the ONU, very rarely the other factions, because I find them to range from unpleasant to totally repulsive. In particular, never ever could I be dragged into playing the Gullib... erm, the Believers.

 

[colontos]

I don't care about politics, but my wife is Korean and she won't let me play as Japan ever. Ditto for Axis and Allies. If I do play as them I have to hide it from her.

 

[Jamesds]

I can never play a non-scientific civ - I am rather Scientific, and the thought of no cheap libraries and no free techs at the begining of eras is too daunting.

 

[777]

I very often play with chinese. Their culture fascinates me, pone of the oldest civilizations in earth. And I allways dream of rising people's army and rule the earth!

 

[DaveDash]

In Civ I don't care about politics.

I do care however about what I'd call the tribe's "flair", or "flavor". I never play Americans (USA), not for the sake of "Bush-bashing", but because it's not a very colorful tribe (and that UU... :thumbdown ). I also tend to neglect Iroquois because of these absurd city names.

In real life, I teach French, Latin and (ancient) Greek literature. That's probably why I prefer civs with a long and rich culture spanning history, especially European or Mediterranean ones. I mostly play Egypt, Byzantines, Rome, Greece, France, Carthage, and also Japan and China.
But of course, traits and UU also matter a lot. I hardly ever play agricultural civs because it's a bit unbalancing, and expansionistic ones because they suck on hard levels.

In SMAC however, much like DBear, I am extremely sensitive about politics. I play Gaians 90% of the time, occasionnally the University or the ONU, very rarely the other factions, because I find them to range from unpleasant to totally repulsive. In particular, never ever could I be dragged into playing the Gullib... erm, the Believers.

I'm the same with AC, although Im always the Spartans or the Morganites

Never the hive or the believers (and I'm a christian) though. I detest them.

Civ3 doesn't really have too much politics unlike AC.