What are your Civ play-style idiosyncrasies?

[Slobadog]

I try not to raze cities that have wonders in them, if practical. Sometimes the line between practical and non practical gets blurred though.


Wonders are part of what makes the world unique. I hate conquring clones.



I have a tendency to make bold and risky combat actions. Usually involving seperating a unit from the saftey of my stack to go attack some seemingly isolated unit hiding in the woods. To my mind this kind of stuff is part of decisive, confident, clever combat manuvers that will win the war. When in reality its just another RNG encounter.

 

[Garand]

Mine are rather silly:

I almost always shoot for Christianity... the only time I go for a different religion is if I am the Arabs, and then I try for Islam.

I hold a grudge for a long time. If someone betrays me, I get them back in due time. If someone takes a city of mine, they are in for a world of hurt. I will pursue them to hell and gone if I must.

If I feel benevolent I won't wipe out a civ, I will merely reduce them to one town and ensure they are neither destroyed by another Civ, nor expand beyond one city.

I tend to build larger navies than most players. Though navies aren't quite as useful as they were in Civ III, I still got in the habit of building large navies once frigates are available. You'd be surprised how much your power projection increases with a sizable naval force.

I always build nukes. You know, just to have em.

My units that distinguish themselves in combat get special titles. These units get first crack at upgrades if I have the cash available. And they are usually my shock units during wars.

If I capture enemy towns, I always rename them.

That's all I can think of for now.

 

[Evil Twin]

I'm highly xenophobic, I don't like other civs being too near my core cities and if they are.. I'll just take or remove their cities.

I like keeping my borders neat and closed up with Forts and garrisons.

I don't like filling every square with roads, only where I have to and/or where it's aesthetically pleasing.

I will not only never give in to tribute demands, I will always immediately demand a tribute from them instead. This works surprisingly often.

I always raze Ethiopian cities no matter their usefulness. It's how I handle this fraud of a civ tainting my game experience.

I tend to shoot for ICBMs before anyone else has them and thus nuke my leading rivals into fallout hell with impunity.

I never take Hinduism and actively prevent it's spread by annihilating civs with it, I'll do this until they stop having Hinduism represented by that vulgar little man in a diaper who ruined India.

If I see Mao or Stalin I will do everything in my power to make them miserable.. but I won't wipe them out. Making them suffer is more fun.

 

[SickCycle]

I'll place cities in bad locations just because they have outside the box strategic importance, like panama canal type stuff.

This last game I started as the dutch with a coastal start, it was in the shape of a crescent, there was a river mouth three or four tiles to my east connected to the coast so I put a city right at the head of the river even tho it overlapped my capital pretty bad just to get a near unbreakable trade route going, the river then went east for a couple miles, I rexed and put down a city along the river all the way down keeping them connected to the capital/sea by that first river city then the river started going north and a second river cut east some more going south/east and connected to the coast, so I put another city along the northern end of the river and one right inbetween the two to connecting the first river with the second one and then another city at the end of the second river at the coast where it connected to the sea..

They were alright cities mostly jungle nice grassland underneath with some resources you'd expect to find in the jungle, it prob would of worked too and given me a wicked foundation to build an empire off of but because I rex'd so bad and I was playing aggressive AI I lost one of the cities and just got upset and quit like a lil girl

I'm also a perfectionist, but I hate micromanaging heh

Also if I play the earth map I *have* to replay history, I'll try and get all the greek wonders in athens or I'll expand just like mongols did and raze demand everything, just a lil roleplay I guess, and if I'm egypt and don't get the pyramids I'll start over lol nothing pisses me off like playing an earth scenario and not getting the pyramids when I'm egypt.

I usually try and play like the leaders personality in general, I guess that is kinda odd, it's fun tho. Specially when your playing Genghis Khan, I'll have -10 on every civ lol, I just go around demanding anything I want and if they say no I attack them and wont stop till I get gold every turn as tribute and when it ends I demand it again and if they say no we go back to square one.

 

[Da_V_Man]

I always have to own my home continent. By that, I mean so long as I can have no one else on my continent but my team or vassals, then I'm fine. I also don't like pillaging cottages on particular, because when I fight, I fight to wipe out.

I like to shoot for Chirstianity. If I get the oracle then theology is the tech I choose.

I'd rather wipe out a civ if I get most of its cities than let them live so my nationality stays the same. Not that I want pure cities, but then they don't get the hapines penalty

I always used to made a new map if I got a coastal start, but now I realise they aren't so bad.

I like to have units lead as a warlord. Then I name them pluraly and put McGee at the end. Like Explorers McGee, Horse Archers McGee(It fits), Tanks McGee, Knights McGee, Helicopters McGee. Those guys (Aside from helicopters McGee) were all name I called my warlords units.

 

[Swedishguy]

When trying to rush an enemy, I am biased towards those with worser leader music, even if they are more powerful.

 

[The Tollan]

If I build a city and then notice that there might have been a better arrangement I sometimes consider reloading a few turns back or perhaps altering the landscap back through the world building (though I try to cut back on this since it is like a freebie). Sometimes I don't want to take very long examing the potential city location sites and become more prone to take "rectifying measures."

I try very hard to put cities on deserts or other panels that cannot be improved (they automatically become much better with a city on them) without bringing too many mountains/deserts/other non-usable or barely usable panels into the city radius.

I try very hard to avoid building cities on top of hills. I strongly seek to make the city productive and will skip the defense bonus every time. If I would have to go way out of the way to avoid building on a hill I will sometimes use the world building to add a mine on the city radius (sometimes I give mines to cities controlled by others civs which are on hills).

I find it hard to build massive amounts of units until I have developed my cities to a certain extent (especially when factories appear) although I am gradually finding it easier. I like to have very high production cities.

I try to get a certain amount of cities (does not have to be huge) that were built by my civ into the game world. I rarely raze cities (mainly if they are crammed next to another one or if I have very few cities and they block expansion).

 

[Cyberblade]

Well for me i MUST GET Shedgwan Paya Temple of Artemis and the Pyramids

 

[Smote]

One of the overlooked benefits of chopping: When there's a forest immediately adjacent to your city, an attacking enemy will usually put his troops there. That's a 50% defense bonus, which may well be better than the bonus you get from your city! If the enemy is sitting in the forest, your counterattacks are substantially weakened. This doesn't say anything about chopping in the outer circle around the city, but I'll never leave a forest adjacent to my city. Especially not a forest on a hill!

A drawback is its easier for 2-movement units to attack tho... something to remember against players who like chariots/horse archers.

 

[Glored]

I like to play 'gotta catch 'em all' with religion and wonders all in one city. Though that is only possible in settler level for me. In the beginning of the game, i regenerate and regenerate and regenerate map just to get all that is needed to build all the wonders in one city: river and coast. I usually only build my second city when all religion is found in my capital, that is not until 1AD - 400AD. But the benefit is the capital generates so much money and great person point that 2 national wonder i build there is none other than National Epic and Wall Street. Coooooooooooooool! Well, not so when you don't have no more place to build your second city.

 

[WhimpyCiv]

Several quirks of mine have been noted here...

1. I have to see everywhere. Revealing the world with satellites doesn't give me any more information than I already have.

2. I have to build roads everywhere. Then railroads when they become available. Even if they're not useful. Sure, I'll try to build them in useful places first, but sometimes not.

3. NEVER automate the workers. Micromanage them. I'm starting to do that with the cities also - "No, don't work THAT tile, work THIS one."

4. Always give archers and longbowmen the "Defend city" promotion. All of them. Even if it makes more sense for them to have some offensive capabilities, they only get the "Defend city" promotions. That's all they're good for.

5. Always chop around the city. ONLY chop around the city. There are never any forests next to my cities. I hate having enemy units protected by the forest next to my city. Chariots/horses/fast-moving units ... fine, have forests and hills TWO spaces away or forts or whatever to slow them down, but never next to the city. (Hills, you can't do much about, but forests you can chop down.)

6. Related to #5 ... never give the enemy time to attack your city. Don't bother counter-attacking, attack FIRST! I hate having the enemy pillage my land. Since I play the longer games, it makes me feel like I just wasted oh-so-much time.

--WC

 

[Diamondeye]

I hate the tech Divine Right. Simply HATE it.
Dunno why though - I just steer clear of it until I need it for some other tech.

 

[ggganz]

I hate the tech Divine Right. Simply HATE it.
Dunno why though - I just steer clear of it until I need it for some other tech.

Because it gets Islam. But it gets the Spiral Minaret. But I have Free Religion by that time.

 

[DutchJob]

only chop for impi/axe rush or when improvement is needed on location

switch out of slavery into CoL asap (and when thing r up 'n running)

only roads when needed, everything has to look pretty

raze cities only when the placement is really bad. i dont start war when i cant keep cities.

but when someass declares war on me...

always turn into some Asoka type of guy: start as a Shaka, but slowly i grow more peaceful since war gets tiresome after a while

must get Sol, CR and Taj.

when i get a GE i always rush a wonder

 

[Maceman]

If I have a wonder that expires with acertain tech, I don't research it as long as possible.
For example Stonehenge: I don't reasearch calendar.
The AI offers it cheap: No.
ONly 2 turns to research it: No.
I rather trade for resources than build a plantation.

 

[LiberiGlacialis]

Prioritize Science over War...even though War drives Science...>>

Not only that, but leave near-bare garrisons in my cities. Monty/Khan goes on war-path, I'm screwed w/out Draft.

 

[Grimz101]

kill the aztecs, mongols, greeces, and japanese as soon as possible

 

[Cuchalain]

Prefer to have 2 defense & 1 offense units in each city, usually built in other cities and moved in asap. Upgrading as becomes available.

Mostly peaceful, with a short offensive conflict as soon as I develop iron, and another after gunpowder.
However, if attacked will fight all-out and bribe as many of the offenders neighbors to attack as possible.

Tend to overbuild in cities, just to build.

NO Worldbuilding, even when I should.

Automate workers with the no clearing woods order. Then go back to raze & rebuild what I don't like.

Been playing the Celts alot, for sooomme strange reason.

 

[Montello1232]

I place all my cities exactly five tiles apart. if there is a moutain in the way I will skip that location and go to 10 tiles apart.

 

[Slobadog]

Quote:
Originally Posted by zagaz
In civ 3 I LOVED Fascism, would always used it as soon as I could.

Originally Posted by Swedishguy
Um... Fascism wasn't represented in Civ III. Did you mean Civ II?

There was a cool expansion pack released a few years ago. Called civ 3: Conquests. Not sure if they sell it anymore. But you could just purchase civ 3 complete. Comes bundled with civ 3 and both of its XP packs for only $ 20.00 Might have to go online to find it. Didn't see any at my local walmart. Been thinking of buying complete myself. Family relatives lost my orginal copy.