Before finding this forum, many bad things appeared in my Civ4 games, like losing the first worker to panther at warlord level, or losing my settler to a wolf, or my capital captured by barb axes at chieftain level, which led me to rage-quit or even uninstall the game (and reinstall it a few months later
).
After coming to this forum, I learnt a lot about the game mechanics and started to realize my mistakes/bad habits in my past gameplay. Rage-quit has become much less frequent at warlord level and below
. But bad luck or terrible moments still exist.
Usually in forum games such as NCs I posted my rage-quit experience in the write-ups, thus it's redundant to repeat here. So I'm sharing a rage-quit experience in one of my off-line games, in an old game at monarch level.
About two years ago, I was not very comfortable with monarch games so I decided to do some off-line practice with Genghis, a leader who had zero economical traits. The map generator gave me a poor start: low
, low
, many brown tiles; the only food resource for my capital was a plain hill sheep
.
Despite the poor tile yield of the sheep, I researched AH because it revealed horse. The bare plain tile 1S of the settler looked very suspicious. If that tile had horse, with so many forests, a keshik rush would allow me to capture some land from my neighbour. Unfortunately, AH told me there was no horse
.
After AH, Mining-BW seemed to be a natural tech choice. After BW, good news - that suspicious tile had Copper
! Keshiks were impossible, but the potential Axepults gave me some hope. The land was indeed low on
. No gold, no silver, no gem, no fur, no ivory
. Settled 3 cities then dawdling towards maths - construction with Genghis' pathetic research ability.
It turned out that I shared a continent with Pacal and Cathy. Pacal founded a religion, built a shrine and some other wonders but he only had 6 cities - all these made him a great target for an Axepults attack. In classical era Cathy already had 10 cities and she was still expanding. Pacal's religion spread to Cathy and me. It wouldn't be too hard for me to keep Cathy at pleased with shared religion, then beg something from her before I DoW Pacal.
Unfortunately, both of the AIs on my continent got early monarchy, and AIs' early monarchy often meant early Feudalism -->vassal state unlocked. And that was how the disaster happend: just 1 turn before my Axepults stack was ready, 6 cities Pacal peace vassal to 11 cities Catherine
. The early game didn't go well, and the peace vassal one turn before my attack just deprived me of all the motivation to keep playing
. Rage quit
.
