How long does an average game take?

ohcrapitsnico said:
:mwaha: :mwaha: I've done that before.:p
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Haha, I can imagine the pain....I did the opposite once. 2 players huge epic game, emperor level. By the time I finally meet the AI I was so behind on everything that I just gave up. My Knights were a LITTLE weak against his marines. (I was on a big island, he had 2 almost-connected huge continents, not exactly fair)
 
Laugh -- the two of you, if you are in a half-decent location, should be able to keep up with the AI. It might take some effort: one of you needs to b-line for alphabet, while the other picks up some complete different and expensive technologies to trade with the AI to start.

If you can get in the same general tech area as the AI, the idea will be to try to get single expensive technologies that the AI isn't researching, then trade them for as many technologies as you possibly can.
 
I always play on normal speed, usually standard map size. I never even tried epic or marathon and couldn't think of a reason why I should. My games last ~10 hours according to the summary at the end. I must add though that I often do something else like eating or talking on the phone etc and don't pause the game, so some of the time I don't actually play.
 
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IronCrown said:
I always play on normal speed, usually standard map size. I never even tried epic or marathon and couldn't think of a reason why I should. My games last ~10 hours according to the summary at the end. I must add though that I often do something else like eating or talking on the phone etc and don't pause the game, so some of the time I don't actually play.
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same here, except make that more like ~14 hours.
 
My shortest game ever was 1:21 - OCC as Rome, don't remember the size. And yes, iron was one square away. :D
 
I play Epic/Continents/7 civs on Prince/Monarch. My games usually take 10-15 hours on Prince and 12-18 on Monarch. I NEVER automate workers. They do horribly stupid things like farm over my fully-developed town on a floodplains in my Beaurocratic capital. :cry: I learned my lesson.
 
My games last 30+ hours (going by the game clock), but, in real time, they usually take me a couple of weeks to play.

I play on Marathon, but with modified settings (quicker production) so I get to see more cities and larger armies on the field.
 
Great, I've been wanting to make a poll out of this for some time.

Usually play large or huge maps on normal speed.
Manually move all of my units and quite a bit of micro. Takes me around 24h on the game clock (longest was around 40h), played during the course of a week on average.

Note to OP : you should make a poll out of this, so we could see a nice bell curve. Edit your first message and find the option to make a poll to be taken to the poll creation menu.
 
Bushface said:
I ... play ... to ... pass ... the ... time ... so ... it ... takes ... me ... ages ... to ... finish ... a ... game ... especially ... as ... I ... am ... a ... compulsive ... micromanager. I ... think ... my ... slowest ... was ... 60 ... hours ... but ... I'm ... now ... on ... my ... first ... Huge ... map ... so ... a ... new ... record ... seems ... likely.
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I think I can beat that. My games are ridiculously slow (and it's not that I have nothing better to do, I'm just very thorough). My last was on quick speed, small map, 7 opponents. I won a diplo victory. 42 hours, and that doesn't include all the times I reloaded because I forgot to switch from working a gold tile to a fish tile, or got a worker to improve the wrong tile, or other stupid stuff like that.

I'm going to use a tiny map next time, and I'm never playing anything slower than 'quick' ever again.
 
LlamaCat said:
Sjaramei I don't know how you do it... if you are just pressing the enter button but not going through all your units and cities that need orders, it seems you are not playing the game.
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Well... the point is i mostly only micromanage my cities early on... later on it's war war war. My game is over in the 1400's usually if i can pull domination without having a naval war. If i can't get that i might go space ship or diplomatic win, which is mostly about pressing the enter button as mentioned. (50%+ landmass makes you a tech monster ;) )
 
I just finished my first BTS game....Epic/Standard Map/ continent Monarch playing as Carthage...23 hours wining by space ship 1928...would I won early but china decided to war with me after the second time i refuse to switch to bureaucracy... I also realized I’ didn’t pause the game during Saturday afternoon when I stop playing to Watch a Dexter for six hours so really it should ranged closely to 15-17 hours. Didn't have good production cities early on

I love to micromanage.
 
I'm another one of those huge map/12-16 civs/marathon speed people. Gives me more time to savor the broad sweep of history, plus it makes war, especially early war, more profitable, and I likes me some war. Also, I have conquest/domination as the only checked victory conditions. So my games last for-freakin'-ever, and that's the way I like it.

Usually, it takes about two to three weeks to win a game, usually by domination, most often around 1700 AD with tanks and bombers. Probably 30 to 50 hours of play time.

On the other hand a small map, fast speed game could be over in a matter of a few hours or even less. So it varies a LOT.
 
My record for a game is like 1 hour 15 min. Dual size, pangea, I had two iron and a copper, the AI had nothing.
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