Seraiel
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Hey...
I ask this question, because I regard the HoF as my home, and here is where my friends are.
I need advice on a personal question. You know, I play the current GOTM, but it doesn't matter, could be HoF aswell, similarity is playing competetively. When I started playing CIV, I had an enormous ambition to learn to beat Deity. I played Huge maps, because I wanted the most gigantic game where I needed to make myself tons of thoughts because the situations are so difficult and hard to control.
Then 5y passed, and I think I can proudly say, that I have successfully mastered CIV to a very high degree. When I play however, it sometimes becomes a nightmare. In the beginning, everything is still fine, not many decisions to make, the game progresses, great, but in the end-game, even a small map absolutely kills me. I'm currently playing at a speed of 2-4h / turn (!!!) . I probably could play those turns in 1h, but then I would work myself to "karoshi" . I try to play very relaxed but on a high level, and I just cannot feel good anymore, because I make things that aren't fun anymore. Microing many cities / turn, that's still ok, it's probably a nightmare for most of you, but what whith those things like calculating the number of troops, planning when to start a GA to draft, optimizing everything on the path towards that to gain 1 or 2 turns on the attack date, using Galleon chains instead of just sailing happily over the ocean, calculating Corporation spread to maybe again save 1 turn on it, pushing towards the land limit with a safety margin of 2%, optimizing troop movement to maybe take 1 city 1 turn earlier, Worker management, espionage, GPs for as much as 6 GAs (1 through TM) , building Wealth and Research to again gain 1 turn with 30 minutes of micro, you know what I mean.
The problem is, that the more one understands about the game, the more easy but also the more complicated it becomes. One has ideas and does things one would never have thought, considered or even done, if someone wouldn't have suggested them to you. How do you deal with such situations, is playing CIV to you always fun? What do you do, when it's no fun anymore, play worse?
Seriously looking for help.
Seraiel
I ask this question, because I regard the HoF as my home, and here is where my friends are.
I need advice on a personal question. You know, I play the current GOTM, but it doesn't matter, could be HoF aswell, similarity is playing competetively. When I started playing CIV, I had an enormous ambition to learn to beat Deity. I played Huge maps, because I wanted the most gigantic game where I needed to make myself tons of thoughts because the situations are so difficult and hard to control.
Then 5y passed, and I think I can proudly say, that I have successfully mastered CIV to a very high degree. When I play however, it sometimes becomes a nightmare. In the beginning, everything is still fine, not many decisions to make, the game progresses, great, but in the end-game, even a small map absolutely kills me. I'm currently playing at a speed of 2-4h / turn (!!!) . I probably could play those turns in 1h, but then I would work myself to "karoshi" . I try to play very relaxed but on a high level, and I just cannot feel good anymore, because I make things that aren't fun anymore. Microing many cities / turn, that's still ok, it's probably a nightmare for most of you, but what whith those things like calculating the number of troops, planning when to start a GA to draft, optimizing everything on the path towards that to gain 1 or 2 turns on the attack date, using Galleon chains instead of just sailing happily over the ocean, calculating Corporation spread to maybe again save 1 turn on it, pushing towards the land limit with a safety margin of 2%, optimizing troop movement to maybe take 1 city 1 turn earlier, Worker management, espionage, GPs for as much as 6 GAs (1 through TM) , building Wealth and Research to again gain 1 turn with 30 minutes of micro, you know what I mean.
The problem is, that the more one understands about the game, the more easy but also the more complicated it becomes. One has ideas and does things one would never have thought, considered or even done, if someone wouldn't have suggested them to you. How do you deal with such situations, is playing CIV to you always fun? What do you do, when it's no fun anymore, play worse?
Seriously looking for help.
Seraiel