Finishing games

[kaltorak]

I don't know why, but I can't seem to finish most games. I love to start new ones. But when I come to the point where I got it under control, I start to get bored.

I usually have a hard time at the beginning. I expand/capture cities too fast and my income and science pays for it. But after that, when i get time to stabilice, I get the lead, and when I finally reach tanks, rest of the civs are far behind. Now I know I only need to produce mass tanks and wipe them out. And here it is where I normally leave the games, because it's just like routine: build tanks and destroy.

I've been playing civ4 for about 1 year, and I have finished about 4 games. :/

Ill throw in a question too, so I don't need to open another topic for it. I've seen in the screenshots topic somebody talking about a gameplay mode where you can just watch an AI civ play. How do you do that?

 

[Codazzle]

I'm the exact opposite. I usually struggle early (but somehow emerge well off late game, and that's when I get my good playing.)

Teach me your early game secrets!!! Hahaha

 

[kaltorak]

I'm the exact opposite. I usually struggle early (but somehow emerge well off late game, and that's when I get my good playing.)

Teach me your early game secrets!!! Hahaha

It's the opposite, on early games is where I have trouble, but that's when I have fun
Later when I got the tech lead, it's boring just producing advanced units until I have taken all their obsolete defended cities.

 

[southpw11]

It's the opposite, on early games is where I have trouble, but that's when I have fun
Later when I got the tech lead, it's boring just producing advanced units until I have taken all their obsolete defended cities.

I'm the exact same way, I find the beginning and middle parts of the game fun but not the end normally (unless it's a close game). Once you know you're going to win or lose, no use going through the tedious process of playing it out.

 

[Nials]

Sounds like you need to try a higher difficulty, kaltorak

 

[thekaje]

What difficulty level are you playing?

 

[Kullervo]

It's the exact same with me... I have about 20 different games up to 1500 AD, and then... well, I just lose interest

Maybe you need to try something more... creative? You can worldbuilder yourself a world or you could play an existing scenario.

 

[GrayingGamer]

Early game tends to be more choices, less chores...

Late game tends to be the opposite.

 

[chris.]

I recommend playing on smaller map sizes. Large and Huge map sizes usually make for long games.

Also sounds like you need to up the difficulty if you're dominating every time.

 

[attackfighter]

upping the difficulty isn't very fun, cause the ai doesnt play any better they just get extra troops and tech, making it more tedious having to create a giant empire to compete with them

I remember having a very fun game in civ 3, where the French expanded a TON and provided a very even match, even though they were bigger then me. since then, no civ in any civ game has adequitely expanded to compete with me, so its just a linear quest of me capturing a bunch of cities, then quitting in dismay as I near the late game with no competition.

hopefully in the next civ game they'll make ai that expands and actually plays to their benefit, instead of arbitrarily declaring war 1500000000 times on whatever civ isnt in there religion, and subsequently having 15000000000 pointless and non beneficial wars

 

[billw2009]

Yeah there really needs to be a way to turn off the 'personalities' and just have the AI play the best it possibly can, using the same types of tricks as a human player instead of getting annoyed that you don't have the right civic or religion. Something else that annoys me is when a smaller civ doesn't like me but then constantly asks me to intervene in their wars, then hates me even more when I reject them, and eventually they get so annoyed they attack me with no hope of winning.

 

[Vulcans]

upping the difficulty isn't very fun, cause the ai doesnt play any better they just get extra troops and tech, making it more tedious having to create a giant empire to compete with them

I remember having a very fun game in civ 3, where the French expanded a TON and provided a very even match, even though they were bigger then me. since then, no civ in any civ game has adequitely expanded to compete with me, so its just a linear quest of me capturing a bunch of cities, then quitting in dismay as I near the late game with no competition.

hopefully in the next civ game they'll make ai that expands and actually plays to their benefit, instead of arbitrarily declaring war 1500000000 times on whatever civ isnt in there religion, and subsequently having 15000000000 pointless and non beneficial wars

I have exactly the same, nowadays upping the dificulty to diety, it doesnt achieve much for the late game, only making the early game increadibly challenging, but after equalising the AI advantage in the medievil age, but after gaining the upper hand it still becomes just as boaring approaching the renaisance period-modern age. time to start over.

the only time i've had meaningful modern age wars is when starting the game in the modern age, meaning that i dont have the usual crushing tec advantage in the modern age.

 

[Grey Fox]

I have a spreadsheet where I keep info about what victories I've won with which civs and at which difficulties. Eventually I hope to win all types of victories with all civs, though I doubt I ever will.

This has helped me keep playing some games I probably would have quit.

Though I quit an awful lot of games sometimes, generally because I play with random leaders and I get one I didn't feel like playing.

 

[Vulcans]

GOTM has helped me finish games i normally would have thrown away after being ensured victory.

most of the GOTM are far too easy, so the question is not about if you will win, but how long it will take, thus leaving some form of competition right till the end, and giving a reason to finish mopping up the last AI even after achieving a tec lead.