Least Used Civic

[Swein Forkbeard]

What is your least used civic? For me, it's a tie between Environmentalism and Pacifism, but I vote Environmentalism, even though I myself am a kind of "Environmentalist".

 

[Kesshi]

State Property for me.

I'd take Representation + Mercantilism or Univesal Suffrage/Police State + Free Market any day. In fact, I don't think I've ever used State Property.

 

[DigitalBoy]

I almost never use Feudalism or Pacifism. Voted Pacifism.

Heh, I just realized the civic is called "serfdom" and not "feudalism." Shows how much I use it.

 

[0R4NG3]

I've never used Police State, not even once by mistake, and I have been playing this game since it came out, strange :-/

 

[tazpn314]

Police State for me. I am certain I've never used it. It comes late and there is almost always a better choice for me. Nationhood would be my second choice but I've at least used it and it allows drafting and happy faces for barracks.

 

[Party]

Environmentalism for me. Police state I actually do use once in a while.

 

[CoZe]

serfdom or state property for me. I love pacifism and the GP bonus. and environmentalism is good to get some health (more GP).

 

[PotatoSamurai]

I almost never use Free Religion. If I'm playing a culture or science game, then I typically have at least one religion, and if I'm playing a warmonger then chances are I've taken a holy city before Liberalism. Not to mention FR screws up diplomacy like crazy and invalidates Spiral Minaret and the science version of that.

 

[Minor Annoyance]

It used to be environmentalism but now that BTS bade the A.I. build more units, and I play with aggressive A.I. on, it's pacifism.
EDIT: I forgot nationhood. They're probably tied.

 

[MrTomothy]

Environmentalism. The other choices have amazing bonuses, and health with a few smiles just doesn't cut it. Relatively expensive, too.

 

[dragodon64]

Nationalism for me.

Police State is good for anti-war weariness.
Environmentalism is good for industrial health.
Pacifism is good w/ Philosophical+Parthenon for SE.
Nationalism is good for nothing.

 

[Stylesrj]

I've used State Property pre-BTS. Not any more now there's corporations!

Civics I don't use:

Tie between Hereditary Rule and Police State
Tie between Free Speech and Vassalage
Caste System
Tie between Merchantilism, Environmentalism and State Property, post-BTS
Tie between Pacifism and Theocracy.

Other than that, the other civics I might use at times or I have used a lot. One choice for all isn't very fair

Nationalism is good for nothing.

WHY YOU LITTLE!! -starts choking you-
In all seriousness though, Nationhood is the lifeblood of my Civ. Without my Stack of Conscripts of Doom (SOCOD), I could never go on a warpath on Settler. Besides that, if you're under attack by hostile enemies, like in my first Warlord game, conscription gets you out of a tight spot, along with the Slave Rushing (as you're most likely short on cash)

 

[Kadasbrass]

Bureaucracy is the one civic I *almost* never use. Used it maybe a few times in BST as part of the whole 2 or 3 Corp HQ + Wall Street gold generation method.

But I haven't used Serfdom in along time since I discovered the usefullness of Slavery. I never used Slavery till after having BSt already, I always thought it was one of those "depends on plan" type civics. But after trying it out in a lan game where I was already ahead, I ended up booming even more. I was only trying to test it as something new. Now it is a stable for me and I never use serfdom anymore as a result since I either keep Slavery till I have to switch to Empication or I go to caste system for a great person rush.

All the other civics I use now and then. Nationhood might be the least used, and in heavy wars I use Police state if its allowed. Theology I don't get often since I rarely even get monothism.

 

[IronCrown]

Serfdom. It's completely useless. It comes at a time when the most important improvements have already been built and workers are set to less important, non-urgent tasks. And there are already other, much better civics available, either Vassalage or Caste System.

 

[Nay]

For me its clear: Theocracy.
I run either Organized religion (+25% and missionaries without monastries + wonder-whoring) or Pacifism (GP-whoring).

Close second for go-away-i-dont-like-you is Environmentalism (dont you dare to interfere with my beloved State property).

I loathe Emancipation.
Every other Civic is a choice, Emancipation becomes mandatory at some point.

nationhood sees very limited use in my games too, though it at least has some uses.

 

[DrewBledsoe]

Serfdom. It's completely useless. It comes at a time when the most important improvements have already been built and workers are set to less important, non-urgent tasks. And there are already other, much better civics available, either Vassalage or Caste System.or slavery

Agreed completely with my addendum in red

 

[jkp1187]

I was going to choose Serfdom, but realized that there were one or two occasions when I found it useful to switch to serfdom when colonizing a new continent in the middle ages for a while. Although I've run Environmentalism more, it was entirely due to a UN vote. I've never voluntarily chosen Environmentalism, even in BtS; the benefits of corporations are too great. And if I've missed out on corporations, I'm heading for a military victory, and State Property is far more useful.

 

[sylvanllewelyn]

I dont' understand why so many people disregard nationalism. In all due respects slavery is a much harder civic to use well than nationalism, yet so many use the former and deride the latter.

My least used civic, surprise surprise, is organized religion. +25% building production bonus is awesome, except that during this stage, you should be building settlers, workers and units, or whipping out granaries, courthouses and barracks. Maybe temples, but you'd most like whip them. After that, the high civic upkeep starts to kick in, and more importantly, the diplomatic difficulties that come with declaring a state religion.

Serfdom is actually very useful once you're done whipping buildings, and pacifism combos well with feudalism for the free units.

 

[Öjevind Lång]

I was going to choose Serfdom, but realized that there were one or two occasions when I found it useful to switch to serfdom when colonizing a new continent in the middle ages for a while. Although I've run Environmentalism more, it was entirely due to a UN vote. I've never voluntarily chosen Environmentalism, even in BtS; the benefits of corporations are too great. And if I've missed out on corporations, I'm heading for a military victory, and State Property is far more useful.

You can run corporations under environmentalism.

 

[mintyfreshdeath]

The only civics I don't use much are State Property, Serfdom and Nationalism. I use Police State and Environmentalism alot.