What are your Civ play-style idiosyncrasies?

[ukrneal]

My favorite game type is when I raze EVERY city in order to make as perfect a grid of cities as possible, all with settlers from my own cities. I also dislike whipping, and this gives me units to create instead. Sure sucks to lose some of those wonders, but if they weren't built by me, they must not be particularly wonderful!

 

[Montello1232]

uk, exactly...it needs to be a grid

 

[speedy55]

Once I get writing, beeline to alphabet. I always try and get it early to trade techs with other civs.

 

[troytheface]

at times will settle only on mnts. or only on the coast. i will try giant early navies and pure horse armies. (lincoln/prince/standard)

 

[Nishdog]

I'll ignore AI diplomacy contacts, even if they're offering something useful. I work on a strict do-not-call policy. If they were offering something useful, I'll still deny their request and then contact them myself to offer the same trade, just to keep my do-not-call in-tact.

The exception is the initial contact with each civ. I usually take that to announce "there shall be peace in our time." Sometimes they rub me the wrong way and I look for a spare pole on which to mount their head...

 

[Lefund]

I never build much of an army, too busy maxing out on buildings... cause I can
I keep most of my forest
I always try to play peacefully and never work too hard to acutally acheve a diplomatic (since no one likes someone who never fights) or cultural victory
I never destory or raze enemy city or improvments.
I use my artist to make great works in my recently conquered cities... its not making the city like me as much as I thought

I know theres more but I can think of them right now.

 

[DrewTate]

I never make friends with the arabs and I do once in a while but I hate to make friends with the Iranians (persians)

 

[tucnymaster]

not building a single cottage in a game

Works only on prince level, dont attempt it on higher level

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Huh? You can do fine without building any cottages, just run lots of scientists, lightbulb techs and trade/extort tech from opponents, it's the food economy/specialist economy. Also read some of Obsolete's walkthroughs where he won space race games on high levels with a no cottage strategy (and no lightbulbing either, which also works because you settle scientists or build academies with them).

 

[magichj]

I name my first privateer Dread Pirate Roberts