Request: game-finishing tool?

[Groin_Apologist]

Hi-

I don't know anything about programming or modding, but I wanted to throw out a question to see if anyone else has a similar issue...
For some reason (much like in Civ3), I find the BEGINNING portions of the game much more enjoyable than the later stages. For some reason, there is a threshhold where managing too many cities and moving around too many units starts to detract from the enjoyment for me. Subsequently, I leave most games unfinished because I would rather get the enjoyment of starting a new game rather than gutting it out for a time victory (and I despise the whole 'space-race' thing). Sometimes I get a domination victory, and am usually pretty releived.
Is there any possible way to make a program/mod that would, in effect, 'finish' the game for you so you could get a score recorded? Like, maybe (as I've heard it does with the online version when someone drops out) change the human player to AI and play out the rest of the game to see what the score would be? I realize that unless you at least got to the point where you had an overwhealming advantage, that this would sometimes result in a loss.
I don't even know if this would be possible, but I wanted to put it out there to see what others thought.

 

[Rufus T. Firefly]

 

[Errata]

Maybe you should be playing smaller maps or faster speeds? If you like to just get the game over with, what exactly don't you like about space race victories? If you dont like the end game then it seems like the surest way to cut it far short of a time victory. Even cultural victory can happen way faster than a time victory if you just bother to establish 3 cultural centers. Or maybe you're too much of a builder. There is no rule that you have to build every single upgrade in every single city before conquest. It really sounds like you're going for a playstyle that you don't enjoy, and ruling out playstyles that would suit you better.

 

[mayonaise]

I actually have teh same problem. I have about 10 games started, all of them I leave unfinished somewhere in the modern era... although I think for a different reason. Once the whole map is revealed and settled... the game becomes very predictable for me. You know who is the superpower, and if its you, its only a matter of time before you grind out whichever type of victory you want. For me the fun is the struggle for grabbing land, excitement of discovering new civs, places, etc. The modern era is just very dull. I think in the future they should really concentrate on 1.really fleshing the modern era out 2. somehow taking away the predicability of it all. huge empires rose and fall in history, they never do in civ.

I would prefer finishing my games, and I am usually into them when I quit. I just never get the urge to open it up again, but chose rather to start fresh.