How long do you take to play?

[Alex Johnson]

Everyone plays at different paces. I'm a slow player because I am meticulous and like to micromanage all my cities and units as the situation in the game changes. I typically take about 4 days nonstop to finish a CivDOS game at higher difficulties. At low difficulties I might win earlier by conquest, but high difficulties will take until the late 1900s or 2000s.

How long do you take to finish a game? hours, days, weeks?

Edit: by 4 days I mean most of each day...so many hours. I am playing the GOTQ #1 and I played at least half of Saturday and half of Sunday, about 10 hours total, and it is now 1100AD. I predict a similar amount of time remaining in the game since turns get longer with more cities and units, and the years per turn decrease.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Many hours, usually split over several days. I don't do a whole lot of micromanaging, but there's an awful lot of settler improvements...

That and the fact that DOS runs slow on my laptop for some unknown reason.

 

[trada]

An hour or three a day. I started the GOMQ a bit after it came out and I'm on 1450AD now..

I usually play my game in the dead of night.

 

[conquer_dude]

About an hour a day, if I dont play one hour on a day I make up for it in the weekend.

 

[Alex Johnson]

I see a lot of "an hour a day" responses. But how many days would you estimate it takes you at that rate for a typical game?

 

[trada]

About a week or two.. some nights I need sleep.

 

[urlauber]

I'm on the second day in 2040 (second easiest level), I don't care much about all the other AI's but their're getting pretty anoying now. So still one or a half hour to go...

 

[conquer_dude]

I see a lot of "an hour a day" responses. But how many days would you estimate it takes you at that rate for a typical game?

About three-four weeks depends on how much time I dont waste when Im on my playing time.

Oh, and everyone, I know this thread is not for announcements, but Im gonna start a new story tommorow, with PICS and all.

 

[Pikachu]

How long do you take to finish a game? hours, days, weeks?

My games usually last something like 5-10 hours. I usually play non-stop until I win/lose the game. Breaks are for losers!

 

[covok48]

I once did a calculation of my "hour a day" playing from the time I got civ to when I stopped playing consistantly and was astonished that I had spent half a year of my entire life playing civ 1. Just an FYI.

My games usually last 1-3 hours since winciv runs pretty fast on my new machine. That's much better than the days/weeks/months I used to spend on my games.

 

[nova10]

Depends on how I play. I usually rush the games and I don't really measure how long I play. Most of the games I play, is Chieftan, 3 Civs, Romans.... I'm a little nervous about the higher levels and I use WinCiv.

 

[Alex Johnson]

Depends on how I play. I usually rush the games and I don't really measure how long I play. Most of the games I play, is Chieftan, 3 Civs, Romans.... I'm a little nervous about the higher levels and I use WinCiv.

Do you want some pointers to improve your game? With 3 civs and chieftain it sounds like you have missed some important aspects of the game. I'd bet you stay in despotism for the whole game. That severely limits your growth potential. I've never played a Civ1 game with fewer than 7 enemy civs, even when I was playing my first game 15 years ago. More civs = more interesting action IMO.

 

[nova10]

Do you want some pointers to improve your game? With 3 civs and chieftain it sounds like you have missed some important aspects of the game. I'd bet you stay in despotism for the whole game. That severely limits your growth potential. I've never played a Civ1 game with fewer than 7 enemy civs, even when I was playing my first game 15 years ago. More civs = more interesting action IMO.

Sure, I could use some pointers and actually, I usually stay in Republic for the course of a game if I feel like being peaceful or into a Monarcy if I feel like taking the enemy out. However, in quite a few of my early games, I stayed in despotism.

 

[Pikachu]

I've never played a Civ1 game with fewer than 7 enemy civs

How do you get 7 enemy civs? Do you regard your own civ as an enemy?

 

[Alex Johnson]

How do you get 7 enemy civs? Do you regard your own civ as an enemy?

On the question "Level of competition?" I always pick "7 civilizations". I thought that meant my competition was 7 other civilizations. Whatever it is, I always pick the max.