How Often Do You Restart Your Game Because of Starting Position?

[Sarisin]

I really really want to select the Huge Map and then reduce two of the civs in a map like Highlands or Oasis, But I am certain that the endgame will result in turn lags that result in me abandoning the game regardless of interest.

Yes, guilty as charged. I find myself abandoning about half my games for this reason. Some I am far out ahead in points, but the time in between turns is just too much to take.

I love playing a Huge map and I have a pretty decent computer, video card, etc.

One thing that always drives me nuts is when I turn on Show Friendly Units and see units with multiple movement pts just spinning in circles. It's not like they are patrolling or anything. I wonder if this bizarre AI movement contributes to the lag time in between turns.

I guess I should choose a smaller size map.

 

[Grey Fox]

I cant see how you guys enjoy managing a huge empire anyways.


For me, its 3 Cities that are my favorite children, they get all the attention from me, and the rest are fillers. More than 3 cities help my empire of course, but my top 3 cities are what 80-95% of my attention usually is on. And the capital is of course the brain and spine of the operation.

 

[brainpan]

Agree with above. Soren specifically made it more difficult to grow uber-empires in Civ IV because they are exceptionally unfun and tedious to maintain.

I was disappointed to see that ffh2 reversed this restriction to a certain extent. In ffh2 MP mode, I'm often asked why I keep such small empires in the game, and the simple answer is that I play to have fun first and to win second (not that the reverse handicap prevents my ability to win very often, but it definitely comes into play against experienced players).

 

[White Elk]

I cant see how you guys enjoy managing a huge empire anyways.

I defiantly dont like managing huge empires. But I do like having large tracks of open land into the mid to late game. If I'm playing a game where I want to advance the AC then its no concern for me to raze enemy cities. But when I dont want the AC to advance thats when my Empire grows enormous. Then I queue my city builds which helps, but I don't automate my Workers because they still do it wrong. Hopefully this will improve in BtS.

 

[icantcmyeye]

ya, unless i get something where i'm surrounded by ice or desert, i never restart. I just make the best of it

 

[vorshlumpf]

I cant see how you guys enjoy managing a huge empire anyways.

Sharing a huge map with 15-17 other civs doesn't usually mean you'll have a huge empire.

For me it's all about variety. I want a variety of rivals in the game to bring about a variety of diplomatic situations, wars, alliances, etc.

I also like exploring, and having a bigger map means there is more exploring to do

 

[Sarisin]

Yeah, I think in my games on a huge map I am lucky if I can get to 7-8 cities, so that is not a very large empire to manage.

What does amaze me though is how the AI can build two-three times as many cities. I just don't see how they can afford, let alone manage that many.

The problem is that if you don't keep up by continuing to build cities when you can afford it, then you fall behind the juggernauts like the Malakhim and Elves.

Like, V, I enjoy playing a game with a variety of civs and adapting my strategy to who's in the game.

 

[Grey Fox]

What does amaze me though is how the AI can build two-three times as many cities. I just don't see how they can afford, let alone manage that many.

They do get some maintenance/support bonuses, more the higher the difficulty. But I've played Vanilla civ, with AIAutoPlay by jdogg, and I must say they play awfully bad when it comes to the economy.