How do you keep interest in the late game?

[Karpius]

Now I put myself the restriction of not building any spaceport, i.e. I only go for score victory. I disable the other victory types to avoid a situational victory (cultural or militaristic). The end game challenge is high to prevent AI from winning a science victory before the end of the 350 turns, actually much more than the early game.
Has anyone else tried this to keep the end game fun?

Most of all of my games have Science, Culture and Religious victories disabled. Of course, I still try to achieve each but I don't want the game to end before the turn limit is reached. I only leave Domination Victory active as something more concrete to guard against.

 

[King Rad]

I only like playing at marathon pace. For me the challenge is to try to maintain
focus for 12 to 20 hours in a row while working on another machine. Strangely,
I'm better at that now (at 62) than I was at 40. OTOH, it could be the Adult
ADHD drugs I've been on for the last few years.

Another way is to give up all pretence to normality and move into a cave like my
family and I did.
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While I play at standard speed, I also am usually doing something else while playing, such as watching TV on my 2nd monitor [which is actually a 40" Samsung TV]. I enjoy the game and most of the micromanagment. I've always been a strategy fan, going back to the Avalon Hill games of my youth, some of which took hours to play - too long for a single sitting. I usually spend 2-3 weeks on a game, and while occasionally I get bored during the late game, most of the time I'm doing other things [both in and out of game], such as serving as the policeman to the world, protecting those defenseless little city states, even continuing to develop cities as if the game is not going to end in six turns when I leave for Mars.

And @Ferocitus, I just had to quote your cave post. Last year one of my grandkids [I'm 70 now and have 10 of those little buggers, ranging from 4-26 years old] was visiting and we were back in my study. He was playing my Forza game on my xbox one [spending a lot of the money I had won on my races!] while I was playing civ, and he said, "Granddad, it's like a man cave back here!" Never too young or too old to enjoy a good video or computer game. When my youngest son visits [he's a computer game designer], both of his older daughters, one 8, one 10, play Minecraft or Roblox games on their computers [while the four-year old plays games on her tablet], while my wife is playing Bejeweled on hers; and I'm back in my study playing civ while another son or grandson is racing or playing Maddox football. So many games; so little time.

 

[tedhebert]

Last year one of my grandkids [I'm 70 now and have 10 of those little buggers, ranging from 4-26 years old] was visiting and we were back in my study. He was playing my Forza game on my xbox one [spending a lot of the money I had won on my races!] while I was playing civ, and he said, "Granddad, it's like a man cave back here!" Never too young or too old to enjoy a good video or computer game. When my youngest son visits [he's a computer game designer], both of his older daughters, one 8, one 10, play Minecraft or Roblox games on their computers [while the four-year old plays games on her tablet], while my wife is playing Bejeweled on hers; and I'm back in my study playing civ while another son or grandson is racing or playing Maddox football. So many games; so little time.

Totally awesome ;-)

 

[Abaxial]

This might be of interest:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...tion-reinforces-a-dangerous-myth/#more-525079
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/20...tion-reinforces-a-dangerous-myth/#more-525079

 

[Lee Duane Fitzsimmons]

This problem (which I have had since Civ II) doesn't seem to be so severe in R&F.

Not really sure just why...