How offen do you reload?

[Trabpukcip]

How many times do you use saved game?

 

[Zouave]

Only when I catch the AI cheating or some of that Culture Flipping nonsense happens.

 

[damunzy]

Only when I make a mistake like clicking too many times. I let the dice fall where they may.

 

[Parmenion]

At the start of the game until I get a really good starting position for my first city. A source of water is essential (saving on the need for an aqueduct), and as many resources as possible, especially cattle and luxuries. I'm fairly confident I can win a game given this sort of start.

I'd like to have a go at GOTM though just to see how good a civver I really am - probably a very poor one given my need for a good starting point and inability to cope with early hardship. It'd be nice to compare myself with some of the legendary civvers out there.

 

[Moonsinger]

Never! Well, actually I don't really have time to play anyway. If I'm lucky, I will get about 30 minutes each day to play; that 's usually good enough for about 3 to 10 turns per day.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

When I miss-move, forget to change tech rate and so on.

Also, i use reload to check if I'm using a *spoilt* elite for an attck (that is, if i win, I reload and try with another elite).

 

[Solver]

Never. I consider it cheating, and I don't want to cheat.

Yes, sometimes miss-moves happen, or stupid things with build queues or likes... but I consider those part of the game.

 

[Pygzilla]

Only when i take a break or the game locks. I figure the real world makes stupid mistakes (like Hitler attacking Russia to early and starting a two front war) and I'm just modelling life.

 

[fingerbiter]

I used to reload very often, but now I rarely reload (unless I make a horrible, horrible mistake). I find that it's much more fun to just play through.

 

[dojoboy]

Rarely. If its something I planned to do and forgot, I might reload. If I think about it after the fact --- never! Once I lost a UN vote and reloaded, avoiding the vote from then on to win by another means. I didn't lose any sleep over it because the lost was already recorded in my HOF.

 

[MuddyOne]

I will reload non HOF and GOTM games when I do a DOH!.

ie) GIve away massive amounts of resources when I intended to ask what they would offer for them. Offer GPT instead of lump sum acidently.

 

[GI Josh]

Never, even when I misclick or forget to move a unit. Stupid s**t and idiotic mistakes happen in our government and military all the time - it's the human factor. Besides, it helps even the game. The AI can't properly manage combined arms, but it doesn't "forget" or misclick - I can launch a wicked armored assault backed by artillery, air support, and naval gunfire, concentrated on strategic resources, but I often overlook something or make a dumb mistake.

Besides, there's nothing better than royally screwing-up (like misclicking on the diplomacy screen and inadvertently starting a war with a more powerful neighbor) and then pulling it out at the end.

 

[sappling]

I reload maybe 1 or 2 times a game, when something totally ******** happens. For instance, a barbarian killing by pikeman protecting 2 settlers (happened last night, and I reloaded). Usually it is not worth the trouble to reload (takes too long). If I misclick something or make a mistake, I will usually live with it.

 

[Maple]

I have reloaded twice for non-experimental purposes. Twice.

 

[Melanic Sheep]

I put never but I'll actually reload if something really dumb happens only because I press the wrong button. Like at the start of a game with one city one worker and one warrior, say I start the turn thinking my warrior is up and move my worker somewhere weed by accident then I'll reload. But otherwise its not a test of your skills.

 

[WarlordMatt]

Sometimes I save games right in the middle of a war and reload them sometimes to go through the war all over again when I am bored.
:die:

 

[God]

I never reload except when I make a mistake, such as clicking on the space bar a bit too many times, as I toggle through those unwanted units, and then realize that I hit space bar for my battle front units too!

 

[Sanaz]

In non-tournament games, I reload all the time. I like experimenting, and playing around a lot. I definitely try for the perfect game - I really like the micro-management part of the game, and will take weeks on a single game because of this.

I definitely don't have any guilt about cheating - I bought the game, it didn't buy me. But I do play all random settings, with default rules.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

I use to reload often. I didn't do it when i played my first GOTM and i liked the way the gameplay felt. So i stopped. I now live with stupid mistakes and consider it a better measure of my playing ability. Stupid mistakes are also a great learning tool.

 

[JollyRoger]

Ironman all the way. It's the easiest place to drawn the line. If I started creating exceptions, the list of exceptions would gradually expand and I would never get past 3000 B.C. I figure if I press the wrong key, then it must have been some idiot general or something that didn't comprehend or agree with my exceptionally brilliant plan to claim victory over my planet by departing it like a b*tch on my party lounge equipped spaceship. In my extreme ironman mode, I won't even switch production except when I lose a Wonders race. In that case, I switch to Wealth for a turn and burn all the accumulated shields. I don't play extreme ironman too much, but it forces me to really think before I choose what to build.