Do you guys abandon games?

[Codazzle]

Hi all, just wondering what you vets do

Do you guys ever abandon your games when it looks to become unwinnable? For example, you're locked in a war using Musketmen while a rival on a different continent has completed SS Docking Bay. Among many other situations haha

Or do you abandon games at all?

 

[Dandenoth]

All the time. I don't see a point in continuing when I know a game is lost. Usually, I'll try and figure out why I lost, but I'm not the type to prolong the inevitable.

 

[Admiral Armada]

I lose interest when i am so far ahead in every category that its not even a challenge, just a chore.

 

[DigitalBoy]

I quit games all the time, but not because I'm losing.

 

[Kesshi]

I haven't finished a game in months. I think I'm getting bored of CivIV...which is saying a lot. I played Civ I and II for probably 15 years. A friend of mine put it best "I (he) quit CivIV because I wasn't playing a game, I was playing a spreadsheet."

 

[99wattr89]

I lose interest when i am so far ahead in every category that its not even a challenge, just a chore.

Ugh, yeah, winning the game is the most boring part a lot of the time, since by the time you get Liberalism the winner is normally clear, but you still have to play on through the tedium of actually making good on that advantage. No challenge, just work.

The last time I finished a game was last night, the first time in months, and I did so because it was close all the way through and so I was motivated. Also because Justinian is an ass.

 

[glaivemaster]

I rarely finish a game these days. Even when it is close and therefore interesting, there just comes a point where I need a break from the work, and then I never come back from that break.

It's a shame really, because I find Monarch too much hard work (I've never completed a game because of this, but I think I could win), but Prince far too easy. There's just no happy medium there where I can play for fun but still be in with a chance of winning

 

[Ronojoy1917]

I have abandoned some games, but one time when I was playing as Spain and it looked like all was lost, I decided to try for Cultural just because I had five religions and really there were no other options. So by the end it got pretty close. Then Pacal got into space eight turns before my cultural win. Then all was lost. I have another game that I'm confident I can't win, but I think I might try to grind it out to the bitter end...
I do usually try to finish my games. But then again, I only play on Warlord so...

 

[Parmenion]

I've never abandoned a game because I'm being beat, but I have if I'm winning and the outcome is a foregone conclusion. That said, Civ 4 is far better than the previous incarnations for the AI being able to bounce back from adversity, and I've been challenged in late game on several occasions.

The old caveat has to be applied here I think, "If you are consistently winning the game and having to abandon it due to boredom, you need to increase the difficulty."

I went to Monarch recently and it became a new game entirely. I rediscovered my love of Civ because I was being challenged and was outside my comfort zone.

 

[J-man]

I abandon games when it's a certain loss and sometimes when it's an certain win.

 

[dannythefool]

I sometimes abandon when I know how the game will end, regardless of whom I expect to win. Whether the game has become boring is key, although I admit that I don't usually think of trivially winnable games as boring. ;-)

 

[Iranon]

I abandon certain wins if they seem boring; if I'm losing I fight to the last turn because miracles happen and the AI isn't very good at translating a superior position into a timely win.

 

[6K Man]

I don't push myself hard when it comes to difficulty levels so I don't really have many "certain" losses to abandon. I have abandoned games when I'm far ahead, or when it is winnable but a painful grind to the victory.

 

[Birdman6]

I'll actually abandon a game in the very beginning if I decide I don't like the map, and before I've invested too much time in it. I also occasionally abandon when I learn a new strategy on this forum and I'm eager to try it in a new game.

 

[Onionsoilder]

I abandon games all the time, but not because I'm loosing. I'll also abandon them if I'm clearly the winner, or if it looks like it isn't oing anywhere and the game just isn't fun anymore.

 

[Pikkis]

I tend to quit games with unsatisfactory starting locations. Other than that, I only quit if loss is certain, but still some turns away.

 

[huh?]

I will abandon a game if I have been away from it for a couple of days. I would rather start a new game on a new map instead of trying to pick up the previous game.

 

[Conneely]

Frequently and at different stages of the game. Most often it will be at the very beginning due to an unfavorable starting location, big desert, no resources, bad production etc...

Sometimes I will abandon for certain losses or sometimes when I get too ambitious on my game settings and make a huge map with epic speed and realize I dont feel like spending the next 15 hours just for one Civ game...

 

[Rusty Edge]

Yes, if by abandon you mean that I save the game at the end of the night and never return to finish it.

One ..more...turn.. is all about finding out what happens next.What is over the next hill? Do I win the race to this tech? Can I leverage this random event? Can I get Shaka to pleased? Can I build the Hanging Gardens? Can I defend this city from that backstabbing Cathy? Will I win the circumnavigation race? Can I completre this quest? Who is my next Great Person? Can I get my pet unit to the next promotion? Can I conquer this continent? What happens in the next AP election?

I abandon games when they become too predictable . I abandon games when they become too much of a chore. I abandon games when they've lost their challenge.I abandon games when they lose whatever it is that makes them fun. Maybe that happens just after my nemisis capitulates to me, or when I complete the tech tree, or my attached GG dies, or my favorite city gets razed. Maybe that happens when the game turns into the kind of a contest that I'm not in the mood for.

 

[southpw11]

I lose interest when i am so far ahead in every category that its not even a challenge, just a chore.

I lose interest if I'm winning handily, or losing handily. If its close I often play it out. I don't care for the tedious nature of Civ in the late game. It becomes a chore in logistics.