Finishing?

Go to the finish?

  • I must win completely

    Votes: 40 63.5%
  • Once the result is certain start a new game

    Votes: 20 31.7%
  • Other

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • Total voters
    63
I always play it out. The game's never over until the fat lady sings!
 
I usually play until the turns are to long to interest me. As far as Im concerned, when your forcing yourslef not to hold down the space bar for a few mins, the game is over.
I think the game is won and lost in the late middle/ early industrial ages.
 
Depends on my mood. Sometimes I get stubborn and won't quit until I get that pop-up. My last domination win was like that. Other times, I really want that 100k Cultural win. But there have been plenty of times where I've said "Okay, enough" and gone on to the next game. Especially when I get the urge to try something else.
 
It will mainly depend on the map size, up to standard map I will play till the end of the game, for Large and Huge map, when a single turn takes more than 1 hour, I'll give up and start a new game on a tiny/small map.
 
I will usually finish if I can have a space race victory, but if I turn that and UN off, and don't see a culture coming anytime soon, I won't necessarily quite, but I will start a new one, and usually forget about finishing the old one up. Sometimes finishing up a game after you are the leader can take almost as long as getting there.
 
Good question Dell; I always wondered myself how this subject breaks down. Personally, I'm pretty fanatic in my disinterest once domination is achieved - believe it or not, I have yet to ever finish a single-player game. I find the opening, expansion, and early wars fascinating, but once I'm rolling over spears with tanks, who really cares anymore? Maybe if I blitzkrieged with more bombers and less artillery it would be more tolerable, but once the game reaches the point of moving 200 units per turn, it's decided enough for my patience levels...
 
I agree with sparta. I find the early game the most fun and will usually start
a new game if I'm pretty sure I would win ;) :D if the game continued.
 
I'll quit and start another if it's JAG.

Modern wars can realllllyyyy draaaaaggg. That's why I will take an easy diplo victroy.

Promotion requires finishing 10 random games in a row victoriously, though. For that I finish.
 
Promotion? Is that a target you have set yourself before you take on the next difficulty level?
 
So, I am in the minority, I am supprised. I have yet to finish a Civ 3 game. Once there is no chance of losing, then I start my next game. I really wanted to finish last months GOTM, and I managed to get within a few turns of winning. I just could not bring myself to keep moving those hundreds of cavs around to stamp on all the AI pikemen for no good reason. Oh well.
 
If you are playing a smallish map and the game doesn't get too easy too quickly then you may find it easier to finish the game. I've finished one huge war before where I wanted to try using artillary and after that I hit the domination limit. Also in some games in could be pretty close until you build the spaceship...
 
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