Patience

[Apocalyptic]

How on earth do you guys have patience to play this game with no accelerated production? Its rather uneventful although more realistic I suppose. Accelerated production = more intense wars. Accelerated production = longer modern war = TONS of fun. I play with accelerated and without it to maintain a good balance but still...the wars in accelerated are DEFINATELY more fun. I bringing this up cuz I wanted to get in the HOF but I saw that accelerated production is not allowed.

 

[Cataphract887]

because difernt people like differnt things and some like a slower pace : )

 

[Apocalyptic]

Ah okay that was the type of answer that I was looking for. Thanks. Can you elaborate on that a bit?

 

[punkbass2000]

BEcause AP gives the human too many advantages. Also, I'm not sure what about having twice as many units around makes the game more fun, but to each their own. I dislike pushing units around as it is.

 

[Apocalyptic]

I must agree...waiting 5+ minutes for the computer to move all their units is a bit of a pain just to wait for your turn. That is my ONE peev about accelerated production. Does make for some awesome high octane fights though

 

[Tomoyo]

How on earth do you guys have patience to play this game with no accelerated production? Its rather uneventful although more realistic I suppose. Accelerated production = more intense wars. Accelerated production = longer modern war = TONS of fun. I play with accelerated and without it to maintain a good balance but still...the wars in accelerated are DEFINATELY more fun. I bringing this up cuz I wanted to get in the HOF but I saw that accelerated production is not allowed.

1. It's more realistic. I don't like being in the Industrial age in 1000BC.
2. Long modern wars suck. Too many units to push around.
3. The RNG can't screw you over as badly in AP. I like it when the RNG is a pRNG.

 

[Apocalyptic]

pRNG? I don't recall reading anything on that acronym

 

[Ginger_Ale]

pRNG = Pseudo Random Number Generator

Tomoyo is saying that in AP, it's harder to get bad results from the RNG (I think). I don't like AP - I like my games slow and casual. If it goes too fast, it loses some fun..

 

[Tomoyo]

Clarification: More units = more evening out.

 

[Apocalyptic]

So when do most people get into the modern age in normal paced epic games? I'd like an answer for scientific and not scientific.

 

[punkbass2000]

I never get to the modern age

 

[Tomoyo]

I never get to the modern age

Me too. Except for space race games. Around 1500AD regardless of civ. Maybe faster with commercial.

 

[Apocalyptic]

How on earth do you complete space race around 1500AD with no accelerated production??? Did I completely read this post? Thats when I get to it WITH accelerated. Well mebbe slightly before that.

 

[punkbass2000]

Uh, don't read DaveMcW's HOF thread on his, ahem, earliest launch. It might give you a hearattack

 

[Tomoyo]

How on earth do you complete space race around 1500AD with no accelerated production??? Did I completely read this post? Thats when I get to it WITH accelerated. Well mebbe slightly before that.

I get to the Modern Age at about 1500AD. I finish the Space Race at around 1700AD.

 

[Mr. Hyperbole]

Until recently I played STRICTLY accelerated production(changed after reading a thread here, somewhere). And I always found the game interesting until the modern age. Then, as Punkbass2000 said, the game is reduced to pushing around units & I would become bored.
Since switching to normal production, however, the game has taken on a whole new face. In my last game I didn't hit the modern age until approx 1700 ad but didn't finish off the Iroquois(sp?), my biggest rival, until 1954.
Unitl I switched I thought the same way Apocalyptic did; that the game would take too long and would be boring. But I won't go back to accelerated prod now.

 

[wilbill]

I get to the Modern Age at about 1500AD. I finish the Space Race at around 1700AD.

About that for me, too. In fact, when I want to fight a long, drawn-out modern war, I have to turn off Spaceship Victory.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

I get to the Modern Age at about 1500AD. I finish the Space Race at around 1700AD.

Pretty much the same as well here. On higher levels (Monarch and above), the AI can research techs on their own before you do, so you can trade, and thereby go through the game quicker.

Example: Instead of spending 100 turns to research 2 techs, you research one tech for 50 turns, and so does the AI, so you trade techs, and you each have 2 techs in 50 turns, rather than 100.

 

[DBear]

Agreed. That was my biggest adjustment to make in Civ3. Because of this, I found Warlord and Regent actually easier than Chieftain, since the AI will help with research.