Have you ever finished a game?

[Thrar]

So far my count is 3 out of 4, I only abandoned the very first game once I felt I had learned the mechanics and wanted to start again 'for real'.

I feel that even on a standard map, the game starts getting stale once most civs reach the final tier techs as turns start to take longer and longer, with lots of units and cities to manage. So far I've managed to stay focused, but I often felt grateful after it was over.
I think the early to mid game is much more intense than the end. You have to make decisions that actually make a difference rather than managing the build queues for 20+ cities and the same number of workers.

Contrary to some other posters, I really like those games when I have to change my plans according to what the AI does. My most enjoyable game was Kuriotates trying to go for an Altar victory, when suddenly I was attacked while having just a few warriors and no military techs. I managed to hang on just barely, a new challenge every time another stack came in. This was one of the most intense Civ games I've ever played.

 

[Webrider]

If I'm winning I quit when I have doubble the score of my closest rival. I have played several of those out further until I have 2.5 to 3.0 score vs my closest and never lost so I tend to lose interest when my score gets that far ahead. I think I have seen a victory screen only once in all of CiV 4.

 

[Fafnir13]

I make an effort to finish my games, but I play a good number of other games and have this nasty LAN habit which leads to many hours spent in multiplayer games that don't get finished for one reason or another. Currently, I've got two games going on. Ones an Amurite which has gotten rather dull (the usual conquest with iron swordsmen from Galdur whilst adepts cook) and a Calabim game which has hit that annoying road block of archers when all my beefy guys are promoted for anti-melee. I'm hoping I'll finish them before the patch comes out, but Prototype has been siphoning more than its fair share of my free time.

 

[1234567890]

I finished ONE game : a Luonnotar victory with Kuriotates. The difficulty level was Monarch or Emperor, I don't remember. I wanted to pwn everyone on the map, but my computer didn't agree with me, so I had to take the Luonnotar victory to complete the map quickly.

 

[ADHansa]

Does being malested by combat3 lizardmen turn 50 count as finishing a game?

 

[JonathanStrange]

It does if you're a lizardman!

 

[Andostre]

I actually just beat my first game a couple hours ago.

Normally, I get stuck in a war with someone and I start to turtle and the war never goes anywhere. Or sometimes I focus on building my civ and start to do really well at the neglect of my defense, and then when a rival nation comes in with an overwhelming army, I get annoyed at seeing all of my hard work go down the drain, and I don't feel like completely shifting my focus to build an army just to get back to where I was. In both cases, it's much more fun to just start over and try a different civ and map.

This time, however, I sort of stacked the deck in my favor and chose the Luchuirp and a Highlands map. I'm doing my normal builder thing when I encounter the Hippus, and they ask me to declare war on their rival, the Illians. I say yes so that they like me more, but I really don't change my focus, much. Suddenly, my army tech is heads and shoulders above the Illians without even trying, and they're just to the north of me, so I send a bunch of trebuchets and champions up and just steamroll them. I keep almost all of his cities for myself, and by the time I wipe the Illians out, I'm such a powerhouse that the Hippus to my West and then the Malakim to my East want to become my vassals.

This is around turn 250, and I'm the only nation that has founded a religion, so I start sending my Thanes of Kilmorph to every nation that I have an open borders agreement with (all except one), wipe out a couple barbarian cities, and win a Religious victory before turn 300.

So, my first victory and my first completed game! It was fun.

And I just finished my second game last night. I won with an Altar of Luminotar victory. I had planned on going for that at the start, but then sort of forgot about it while building up with the Elohim. Then all of a sudden, my great people stopped being prophets, and thought, "Huh. Maybe I should figure out how Great People work."

Well, I did, and then started building temples and discovering religions all over the place. I had recently constructed The Nexus, so it was pretty easy to spread the religions and build the temples, concentrating on the cities that were going to give Great People first. When there was about 40 turns left in the game, I built the 6th level the Altar, and start the final level. 56 turns to build it!

I had shifted to Arete a few turns ago when I suddenly realized that it increased Great Person generation by 20%, so I thought that maybe I could spend gold to hurry the production of the final Altar. I set all of my cities to create wealth, turned all of my research to 0%, and was gaining gold at over 725 per turn! I started this strategy with 3,000 gold, and ended up buying the victory at around 11,150 gold, with 33 turns left in the game.

My wife really couldn't care less, so I thought I would share my success here!

 

[Onionsoilder]

I've won around 10 games now. 3 were official wins(no WB, no reloads), 2 I helped along(reloaded a couple times) 5 I was winning anyway, but got bored and helped myself along.

 

[Darklor]

Till now I have never ended a game, besides one or two scenarios.

The beginning of a new game is so much more fun, as the games tend to get to boring after a while for me.

 

[Onionsoilder]

Till now I have never ended a game, besides one or two scenarios.

The beginning of a new game is so much more fun, as the games tend to get to boring after a while for me.

It's like this for me in Vanilla BTS. In FFH however, there is so much stuff to do(Magic, Hyborem/Basium, Apocalypse, high-tier religious abilities, etc) that I have something to keep me occupied.

 

[Freesmog]

I can't recall finishing a game, let alone ever building an Archmage, Phalanx, and obtaining the endgame technologies.

However, I am trying Wild Mana Mod and this is the first time I am 2 turns from upgrading to an Archmage, but I'm ahead by about a 1000 points and it's looking like an easy domination victory after some fun battles. I prefer Huge maps with Epic turns, using Fantasy map with low Sea, and pick my AI leader Civs (plus advanced start).

Edit: annoying part is I pick 3 evil, 3 neutral, and 3 good civs (including me), Evil Flauros turned Good early on which disturbed the balance of the game. I need to add a civ or 2 as the barbarians are kind of out of control with too much open country (and for some reason civs can't build cities very fast after a certain point?).

 

[Dumanios]

does being malested by combat3 lizardmen turn 50 count as finishing a game?

bad images!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Andostre]

And I just finished my second game last night. I won with an Altar of Luminotar victory. I had planned on going for that at the start, but then sort of forgot about it while building up with the Elohim. Then all of a sudden, my great people stopped being prophets, and thought, "Huh. Maybe I should figure out how Great People work."

Well, I did, and then started building temples and discovering religions all over the place. I had recently constructed The Nexus, so it was pretty easy to spread the religions and build the temples, concentrating on the cities that were going to give Great People first. When there was about 40 turns left in the game, I built the 6th level the Altar, and start the final level. 56 turns to build it!

I had shifted to Arete a few turns ago when I suddenly realized that it increased Great Person generation by 20%, so I thought that maybe I could spend gold to hurry the production of the final Altar. I set all of my cities to create wealth, turned all of my research to 0%, and was gaining gold at over 725 per turn! I started this strategy with 3,000 gold, and ended up buying the victory at around 11,150 gold, with 33 turns left in the game.

My wife really couldn't care less, so I thought I would share my success here!

And my 3rd win. I decided to go for a conquest victory this time, and it was incredibly tedious (even if I hadn't had my little problem towards the end.) I don't think I'm the target audience for the conquest style this game offers. I'm much more of a builder/explorer. At least I took down Acheron, this game!

 

[megamanx06]

I always turn off all victories except conquest and occasionally ToM and Altar, especially time (I HATE HATE HATE HATE time victory), and I put in all 19 civs, so it's hard to win my games.

 

[Annex]

I finish probably about 80% of the games I start playing. I dont play on the larger maps so that helps. But there are some instances when I am hopelessly losing and dont want to watch my empire be destroyed.

And yes, I despise time victory as well, especially since Im not a rusher.