How offen do you reload?

How offen do you reload saved games?

  • Never, I go trought the entire game in a single shot. :borg:

    Votes: 14 14.3%
  • Only when I took a break. :)

    Votes: 47 48.0%
  • Sometimes when I missed or lost something important. :(

    Votes: 31 31.6%
  • Always... every single time I'm not perfect. :smoke:

    Votes: 6 6.1%

  • Total voters
    98
I just reload when I have to give a break. It is not enjoying if you reload when someting bad happens. I just don't want to win but also enjoy the game. Sometimes loosing can be enjoying either.
 
I don't reload if i make stupid mistakes. I don't make so many stupid mistakes anymore. I try to think of my people as exactly that, and their lives depending on me. I do my best by them.

I have reloaded for experimental purposes tho - ie to test effectiveness of communism etc. (not as bad as you think - when in certain circumstances). But that's the only time i do it anymore
 
Sometimes, just for experimentation, to see if I could have accomplished something differently.

Once, when the AI built a wonder 1 turn before me, I reloaded about 10 turns back, and flocked workers to my city building the wonder to mine every possible square to boost production.

I ended up knocking 2 or 3 turns off of the total time needed to build the wonder. . . and you know what?

the AI still built the wonder 1 turn before me . . . . .<sigh>
 
Scientia:
lol! so that's why all these people are talking about the AI cheating!! When it is really them who are cheating to be able to know that the AI is cheating!!!!1 What irony :lol:
 
Originally posted by bobgote
Scientia:
lol! so that's why all these people are talking about the AI cheating!! When it is really them who are cheating to be able to know that the AI is cheating!!!!1 What irony :lol:

Somehow the old saying "ignorance is bliss" seems to fall short here. ;)
 
Why don't you try to take longer to build your wonder and see if they then take longer to do it? Might actually be a useful tactic (ie research a new tech to give you a better wonder when you switch)
 
well i am playing my first GOTM now and i reloaded a LOT. But only in the early start of the game. when I finally reached the middle of the middle ages, I checked back on the GOTM rules and really felt down when i read the "no reloading at all cept mistakes" part. but i did expect that. still, i continued with the game but i won't be posting that game ever. i will restart the GOTM (nothing in the rules about that, is there?) and I promise not to reload at all. as of now I'll finish this "ex-GOTM" just for the learning part of it. I am still on the learning curve so forgive me.
 
I often reload in order to plant spies. :scan:

I don't like the ineffectiveness of the espoinage aspect of the game and don't reload for other espionage missions. But I do think that it should be easier to plant spies without starting wars.

So I guess I'm guilty.
 
killer: yeah i did read of that in the rules two hours ago. well it was for the best. i'll just wait for the next one.
 
Only when the confounded game crashes or some glitch shows up like my guys fire on themselves, my units are invisible, or I can't build a unit even though I have the resources, tech, etc.
 
I'll reload only in the beginning of the game. I find the coast, then reload and put my city there. 90% of the time, I get started 1 tile away from the shore. I hate that. And I have to be on the ocean, not on a lake (pangea maps excepted). Other than that, I never reload. I have autosave turned off.
 
I only reload when taking a break with very few exceptions.

Once I did when a city four squares from the capital built the Forbidden Palace and I didn't catch it in time.

Another time I accidentally moved all of the pikemen from my capital using the J-command when I only wanted to move one. The enemy was due to attack with only two swordsmen so I would have easily defended against them with six pikemen had I not made the mistake.
 
Beware dunk, I used to play with autosave turned off, then one day I lost fifty years of cavalry combat. I had to reload from fifty years back now knowing when my enemies wanted to go to war, now knowing where the rubber and oil were going to turn up, and ABSOLUTELY POWERLESS TO KEEP MYSELF FROM EXPLOITING THAT INFORMATION.
 
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