Selecting Victory Conditions

[Ex.plode]

If you don't select one of the available options, is it a last-man standing game, or never-ending?

 

[ShahJahanII]

Never ending.

 

[Uberfrog]

I've always wondered: does that mean if you turn Domination victory off, yet completely eradicate all other civs, you still have to achieve one of the other victory conditions?

 

[Ex.plode]

I've always wondered: does that mean if you turn Domination victory off, yet completely eradicate all other civs, you still have to achieve one of the other victory conditions?

Same here, I'm bummed there is no conquest option

 

[jtb1127]

There probably should be.

 

[wobuffet]

Same here, I'm bummed there is no conquest option

Isn't the Complete Kills option what you want?

Enabling it means to win a Domination victory, you need to be the last player with any Cities or Units standing.

 

[Becomedeath]

I just play like that by default. Domination victory by conquering only the capitals is a little naff.

That's not to say that I haven't used the mechanic to bring the game to a close, but as standard, I don't conquer the last capital until everyone else has been erradicated.

And if I have the Aztecs, I'll let them build more cities after I've got thier capital just so I can kill them more!

 

[Ex.plode]

Isn't the Complete Kills option what you want?

Enabling it means to win a Domination victory, you need to be the last player with any Cities or Units standing.

I thought a dom victory is owning 51% of the map or something

 

[Becomedeath]

I thought a dom victory is owning 51% of the map or something

That's Civ 4, and it was 40% of the population and 60% of the map, or vice versa.

Domination victory in Civ 5 is to capture all enemy city capitals. You don't even have to capture them all, you can let someone else capture all but yours and then you capture theirs.

It's not much of a VC to be honest.

 

[Ex.plode]

That's Civ 4, and it was 40% of the population and 60% of the map, or vice versa.

Domination victory in Civ 5 is to capture all enemy city capitals. You don't even have to capture them all, you can let someone else capture all but yours and then you capture theirs.

It's not much of a VC to be honest.

I'm not quite sure I follow, when you take a capital doesn't the AI re-assign its capital to the next best city? Or is that not in CIV5?

 

[Uberfrog]

I'm not quite sure I follow, when you take a capital doesn't the AI re-assign its capital to the next best city? Or is that not in CIV5?

Yes, but the victory condition deals with original capitals. The last player still in control of their original capital wins. It's why you can't raze them.

 

[Ex.plode]

Yes, but the victory condition deals with original capitals. The last player still in control of their original capital wins. It's why you can't raze them.

Oooh, okay.


I thought it was the same dom victory from the older CIV's, but it will do for an aggressive player like me.



If I take a capital, and the owner takes it back, does it reset?