How do you win?

Which way do you usually win?

  • Cultural

    Votes: 8 16.7%
  • Space Race

    Votes: 15 31.3%
  • True Diplomatic

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Domination

    Votes: 6 12.5%
  • Conquest

    Votes: 3 6.3%
  • Time

    Votes: 4 8.3%
  • Diplomatic by domination

    Votes: 3 6.3%
  • Different every time

    Votes: 8 16.7%

  • Total voters
    48

Horace

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This has probably been posted many times before but I havent seen it and I havent made a thread before.

How do you usually win games of civ? Do you usually win by 1 route alone?
 

Diamondeye

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It's good to focus on what win you want if it's cultural especially.
The others are sorta all up for grabbles if you just expand enough, eventually through warfare.
 

Spearthrower

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I tend to play 2 distinct ways.

1) is to have a focus and agenda for the whole game and play to maximise everything towards that goal - that will normally net me the type of victory I am after.

2) is to play just entirely for the fun of playing. This means I end up partially roleplaying my empire, responding to threats as they arise, pushing for culture at certain times, fighting wars at others and just generally playing a wider field game. This tends to mean that the only victory in sight towards the end of the game is the space race... which, with the additions to it in BtS, i find a very satisfying ending now.
 

LiberiGlacialis

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Online, for crying out loud!
I tend to go for whatever, but that seems to turn into Space Race vics a lot....
 

Horace

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In previous games I always found space race the "banker" victory. So far in BTS (Ive not played more than 10 games) its generally been domination & culture.

I tend to take stock of how im doing around Guilds/Philosophy and then concentrate from there
 

Diamondeye

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I tend to, when I finish a game, win on Domi or Spacerace. Conq is also a possibility, but since you reach Domi before Conq, I usually stick to that.
I have never tried a cultural or diplo win yet. I tend to leave most of my games once the fun's over - when rifles or infantry comes around.
 

DigitalBoy

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I usually try for domination or cultural. Space race and time victories feel a bit cheesy, and my few attempts at (real) diplomacy didn't go over so well.
 
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