Do you guys abandon games?

To me it's not a question of abandoning, it's about continuing. I continue as long as there's a challenge. The goal is to find the balance between the hope of winning and the risk of loosing. Or else: Quit.
 
I usually abandon games at different stages after leaving them for awhile and forgetting where my strategy was leading me. :wallbash:

Unless I can get a large block of available time to make it a great distance thru marathon games, I cannot remember what was going on whenever I start up again.
 
I like losing more than winning.

Usually I like to lose with a bang, though. If a rival is building spaceships and I can't catch up, I'll probably just start a nuclear war.
 
Hmm... interesting. I have to say I was kindof wondering the same thing as the OP. I dont want to give up on a game because it seems hopeless, but have one on standby where I'm stuck in a deadlock war with 4 AI on 2 fronts. The way its going, I dont think I will win, but I think it'd be interesting to try to salvage that game. I just need to get back to peacetime and regroup and have been unable to strike reasonable ceasefire terms.

I'll probably come back to that game at some point... but its a mess that will take my full attention to get mopped up.
 
6K Man said:
Guess it's true about TV reducing our attention spans! :lol:

I'll even abandon posts sometimes, if they ge
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Brilliant!

When I first started to play, I would never quit, no matter what. I was trying to learn, and I learned through experience, good and bad. Now that I'm better at the game, I tend to stick with it, as a rule, but I will quit if it's obviously unwinnable.

Maybe I'm a little over-optimistic, but I try to find something challenging about any game, and see where it goes. Half of the fun is the exploration for me. I've taken very horrible, waste-of-time, stupid games, and thrown my strategy out the window, and then tried to see how far I could go. Sometimes, I even win. :crazyeye:

I paid over $80 CDN for the privilege of having my knickers handed to me by the AI on a pretty regular basis, and darn it, a girl has to get her money's worth. :p
 
Come to think of it, I abandon TV to play Civ. Does that count? Or do I just get the attention span back?
 
Earlier I abandoned a game that was getting off to a good start.

A barbarian archer with no promotions took out my archer with city defense one, full fortify, in a city. .6% odds. Wiped out several workers and a settler too.

Stuff like that in the early game is too much for me. I quit to desktop and did something else for a while =)
 
thekaje said:
I like losing more than winning.

Usually I like to lose with a bang, though. If a rival is building spaceships and I can't catch up, I'll probably just start a nuclear war.
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Now thats my kind of end!:D Yeah I abandon games in that sort of manner sometimes too. :nuke:Once I nuked someone just because they built the Pentagon before me:mad: (wasting my great engineer when they did too).:nuke: Then I razed all his cities except for the pentagon one which i added to my empire. And THEN I quit.:lol:
 
Of the last 16-18 games I've played I abandoned two. Not because they were unwinnable but because the tactics I'd adopted had failed spectacularly.
 
Kesshi said:
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."
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It doesn't HAVE to be that way, you know ;).

I do abandon games but it's very rare. I generally don't give up unless I've lost for CERTAIN and it's only a matter of end turns. Note that the above is often not true even in very grim situations like musket/cannon vs infantry or to a lesser extent cavalry/arty vs tanks (In the past month I've managed to pull wins in both of those situations...).
 
99wattr89 said:
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.
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I'd move up a level...

TheMeInTeam said:
It doesn't HAVE to be that way, you know ;).

I do abandon games but it's very rare. I generally don't give up unless I've lost for CERTAIN and it's only a matter of end turns. Note that the above is often not true even in very grim situations like musket/cannon vs infantry or to a lesser extent cavalry/arty vs tanks (In the past month I've managed to pull wins in both of those situations...).
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And if you get nukes then it's all good. BTW, what game was that where you had Rifles and invaded someone who had tanks?
 
I abandon them all the time. If I've walked away from a game for awhile, and find it difficult to get back into it, I'll just fire up a new one. Lately, though, I've replayed the opening (to about 1000AD), about 8 times, to just fine tune my approach and opening strats (helps that it's a really neat map).
 
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