I'm in a Civ 3 funk

[CivCube]

What to do about it? I can't seem to play more than a few turns before exiting the game.

 

[Bartleby]

Talk to someone?
Read a book?
Watch TV?
Play Tetris/Solitaire/Minesweeper?
Go outside?

Play Civ tomorrow.

 

[CivCube]

Alas, I cannot play this weekend. Graduation looms.

So, hrm. My guess would be to read up on some history.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

I get in the funk all the time now. C3C is broken and was never fixed so i keep starting games and only end up playing one in 12 or so. I might try playing some vanilla civ3. At least the AI uses armies in that.

Of course... there is always real life to play with.

 

[TomOC]

Of course... there is always real life to play with.

Real life is over rated!

Sometimes you just need a break. I'll go for weeks or even months without playing... Then I get the "just one more turn" Syndrome. That's what happened this morning. I was 15 minutes late to work.

I should never play in the morning...

 

[Aegis Shield]

Try and pick up some variants, or some mods. When I got bored with Civ a while back, I downloaded RaR and it was like learning a new game. That kept me interested for a bit. When they started to get dull, I tried variants. Always War will make the game more interesting I think.

Now I just play the three in cycles, regular C3C, RaR, and then variants with both. It keeps it new.

 

[Bob1475]

It happens. Try a scenario. You can play at different levels and from different sides.

 

[vmxa]

Play an AW game at one level below whatever your normal level is and you should have plenty to keep you busy.

 

[Theoden]

Take a break from civ. I had the same problem once, but it helped that I took a break for a few months. Then when I returned to the game, it was much more fun. You might also want to try yourself in the lands of GOTM, the games there are almost always fun.

 

[CivCube]

Heh, problem is I haven't played Civ in months. I need to know how to get back into it.

 

[Theoden]

Then I would strongly recommend GOTM or COTM. Those games are so much more fun than games you create yourself, not to mention the competetive part makes it much more interesting.

 

[Turner]

Or play something you haven't played before. Different mod, different play style.

I had this happen to me. DyP brought me back into it. Conquests was getting kinda meh, but RnR keeps me interested.

 

[Dark Russell]

I modded the hell out of my game, and keep adding to and tweaking it. Modding itself is a nice passtime between playing.