[BTS] Time victory as the option of last resort?

[Oldlamehand]

Do you go for time victory, when you find out you can't achieve any other victory condition, or you give up the game in such situation?
I always play with all victory conditions on and my prefered victories are space race or conquest/domination(sometimes I get conquest style diplomatic victory). I almost never go for cultural or diplomatic victory, as I don't like this style of game, but I keep the conditions on mainly for AIs.

In my last emperor game (defalut settings Terra normal speed) I was too busy to achieve any other condition, as I had to prevent France from cultural victory (raze one city) and had Montezuma as neighbor also close to cultural victory. Finally I conquered big part of Montezuma's land but I had to switch to espionage and desctruction of space ship, because France was close to space race victory and I didn't have enough power and time to wipe them out completely.
Finally I won time victory, my only time victory I have ever achieved.

 

[Windsor]

I've played Civ4 for thousands of hours and never once had a "legit" time victory. I do have a couple of post-2000AD victories, but very few.

 

[Archon_Wing]

Usually if you're on top of the board, you could have won something else. (Usually diplo)

In a lot of cases someone else will win first, so you should work to suppress that.

Also Monty and Culture Victory?

 

[Oldlamehand]

Yes, it is strange. In many games Monty lags in technology in later stages and doesn't care about culture much. But I have seen some games where Monty was almost tech leader and building wonders. This was one of them. In this game, Monty's cities were making high cultural pressure on my border cities. Diplo victory was not option there. As I had to take desperate measures to prevent AI's from winning my diplomacy suffered.

 

[killeryoshis]

Is time victory even possible on higher difficulties? The AI will tech to fast for Time Victory to be possible. I think Time Victory is there so no game goes on forever.

However you still have to try to get a Time Victory. I never had one or heard anyone have one. This is the 1st time I heard someone say they won by Time.

 

[Archon_Wing]

That's because it's one of the least cool victories and results in the lowest score.

It can happen if you can't win yourself, but you can stop people from winning. Back when I was newer to the game, that was what I did since I didn't know how to win any other way. I imagine it would happen if you played a difficulty or map harder than you are used to and you struggle heavily to win at all.

 

[Olson]

Because my laptop doesn't handle larger maps well enough for my preferences, I play on "normal" map sizes; which are too small to avoid a late game "slug fest" of total destruction of all that I've built during the game. To avoid such things, I give up if I haven't won (and are not likely to win) by around 1900 AD. I think my latest victory date was around 1930 AD. If I were inclined, I'm sure I could survive until another civ won but they seem to not be trying to win...only to make sure I don't.