Originally posted by unscratchedfoot
Can you say you actually enjoy winning by just building a spaceship? I wouldn't be able to play the game with spaceship or diplomatic win options on cause I'd be too bored. As for your few tanks winning, maybe try a higher skill level or mod your game to make it a little challenging.
Well, well, well...
I have to admit I find myself bored when waiting for the spaceship to launch. I'd like a tougher challenge in this part of the game, but either Civ2 was tougher, either I'm now tougher than back in Civ2 days (which could be logical, since I lurk and act here now). In most of my games, my goal is clear : win as quickly as I can ! The spaceship victory is usually one of the fastest victory, that's why I go for it. The diplomatic victory is risky, so I don't count on it anymore, unless I was a peace and love hippy in my game.

Conquering the world (even domination) is long, very long, and very boring... You spend half an hour per turn just moving units around, and it delays your victory so much I think I'm losing my time.
My few tanks are usually a stack of 100+ tanks, enough to kill the AI, and still quite cheap. I play on Deity, so what ? I'll have to wait for C3C to try Sid level... when I'm sure I can beat Deity anytime !

You're right about trying mods or variants ; I wasn't able to play mods until now, I surely will someday. As for variants, I find it hard to say eg. "let this game be an AW game" at the start and then stick with it while playing a solo game : I need some external rules, like in SG.
Still, one thought : you always get a chance in any game to catch the AI, and when you do, the game is on its way to victory, and then it becomes boring... So I don't build UFO (

), so as to win as fast as I can without caring to think if I have to attack with tanks or planes or boats.