Insane

[wioneo]

I just thought of a crazy idea, I am going to start a game, and not kill my neighbours! I have grown so used to the "massacre all foreigners and then slowly grow until I find new foreigners tactic," and I need to get over it. The only peaceful, non-cultural/time victories are Diplomatic and Space Race... I am really not looking forward to this... I just thought that everyone would like to know about this. Have a nice election day, Americans.

 

[B1sh0p]

Hehe... I'm the exact opposite. In almost all my previous games, I've always grown up peacefully with my neighbours, possibly turning on them later in the game.

I have to start being more cut throat earlier. My mission for my next game is to kill the first 2 people I meet. The first, quickly, the second after he has a few wonders.

 

[automator]

I've recently been playing peaceful games. I like it. Last game I was a total peace broker, giving techs, gold and whatever to evil civs who were hell bent on destroying my friends.

Makes for a real tense late game.

 

[svv]

A happy medium is to enable alliances and try to be nice to some people. I usually find myself being nice to whoever adopts my religion, and trying to get them to sign on to the alliance. Everybody else I kill.

 

[Mulholland]

This is an very good read if you`re hellbent on having peace with your neigbours.
http://www.compoundeye.net/civ/nonviolent/

 

[Lucky Charms]

I read that several months ago. It is really taking 'peaceful' to the extreme, what a variant!

 

[automator]

I accidentally put myself into another non-violent game.

It's 1970 now, and I haven't moved a single unit outside my borders, with two exceptions:

Settlers and escorts in early game
Missionaries on galleons in late game.

I've been "at war" about a half dozen times. I've declared on Egypt at the request of Hannibal, who I'm making nice with in an attempt to get a PA, and Monte keeps declaring, sending galleons full of grenadiers and calvary over to be slaughtered on the first turn. Poor Monte. Just because I'm not attacking you doesn't mean I don't have tanks to throw against your weak little armies.

 

[Zebra 9]

I'm a kill all my neighbors grow fast go banckrupt get backj on my feet kill all my new neighbors etc. etc.

 

[wioneo]

The only time that I've ever gone bankrupt was when I played the American Revolution Scenario... I always just drop research until I have a profit and maximize scientists almost everywhere. It usually works. Back on topic, I got tired of being peaceful and killed Brennus. His beard was annoying me, and he did move a swordsman(gallic warrior) next to my borders. I consider that to be an act of war, and I had to defend myself.

 

[automator]

I always just drop research until I have a profit and maximize scientists

That's always my plan. When I see my bankroll plummet, I try to make sure I have at least one library sitting around so I can have at least some beakers coming in. In my current (warmonger) game, it meant the difference between horse riding taking 298 turns and horse riding taking 45 turns (with just two scientists).

 

[asabahi]

The only time that I've ever gone bankrupt was when I played the American Revolution Scenario... I always just drop research until I have a profit and maximize scientists almost everywhere. It usually works. Back on topic, I got tired of being peaceful and killed Brennus. His beard was annoying me, and he did move a swordsman(gallic warrior) next to my borders. I consider that to be an act of war, and I had to defend myself.

Well, then it is not your fault. He provoked you and he should have known better . I played, by accident, a complete peacefull game with Augustus, post patch. Early lib, plus running scientist and poping techs with the GS, had me going strong, until Cyrus beat me through the diplomatic route. I was building the last piece of the spaceship. This was at Prince.

 

[Spartan117]

I try to polarize the world. Make some nations love you others hate you with a passion, same effects between all the civs. I always try to go for the permanent alliance to allow me to conquer the world.

I do what is necessary to have at least one very close ally.

 

[cabert]

I just finished a non-violent game.
Was at war twice because my buddy Montezuma asked me, but I never sent any troop.
I should have, since I was capping at 8 cities.
I still managed a cultural win, but was a bit shaky in the end (Playing Asoka, monarch level, post patch warlords), for lack of troops, lack of tech and pushing hard on my neighbours borders.

I though I'd kill Peter (my closest unfriendly neighbour), but the right time never came. After i switched to 100% culture, I just couldn't think much of killing his gunpowder unit with catapults...