What are your Civ play-style idiosyncrasies?

[Quintillus]

I'm always trying to build wonders in the appropriate cities. This becomes especially problematic with wonders such as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Oracle at Delphi.

I also will often try to have the appropriate religion. This tends to result in everyone else being annoyed with me when I play a Christian or Islamic civilization.

I also tend to avoid civics I don't like. Thus, it's quite unusual to find me with Slavery or Police State, and I don't think I ever had Fascism in CivIII.

I also like to have Communism as my government when I play the Russians in CivIII (I have State Property no matter whom I'm playing in CivIV). This one isn't all that counter-productive, though - my best score ever was as the Soviet Union.

 

[ggganz]

For some reason, I hate founding religions other that my first one. I guess this is because they might spread more quickly than my first one and I have to convert. I try to avoid researching code of laws, theology, meditation, philosophy, and divine right whenever I can, but I have gotten over Judaism because of Organized Relgion. MUST HAVE IT!!!

 

[Jorunkun]

I can't resist building cities on sites where they create a canal between two bodies of water. With oceans, this is quite sensible, but I do it with lakes as well, just because I think its cool to make them accessible.

 

[magicalsushi]

I try to found cities on the worst tiles in the area, on the basis that you still get the same minimum output for your city tile no matter how bad the tile is. Often this means a resource ends up being just outside my BFC. But I usually can't bring myself to settle on grassland, or (heaven forbid!) floodplains. Why waste a perfectly good tile when I'd get the same result from settling on desert or ice?

 

[baboon]

I usually plan to make a GPP farm, 2 big commerce cities and 2 big production cities, and end up with 5 identical commerce cities at rivers with hardly any production.

 

[Fuzzz]

I'm very much the opposite of silver_2039. I just can't get myself to raze cities, nor can I bring myself to pillage much.

I try to do it every now and then but it feels wasteful to cause so much destruction

I used to be just like you, prolly because you weren't able to raze in the old versions of civ and because I loved the building aspect of CIV.
Playing has thought me though that CIViv was not meant for players (especially builders) to maintain a big empire in the early game, so you're practically forced into engaging war. In the old days my early wars would give me a bigger empire from a civ (or two) I annihilated or stn, but if you do this in civIV your empire grows too big too fast, so you're practically forced to raze another civ's superb cities, in order to maintain a decent economy.
Pillaging IMO is not worth it (not enough gold/pillaged terrain), unless when you're at war with a civ and you want to take out his key resources (iron, horses, perhaps even luxuries). You could always settle later on terrain that already has farms, towns, etc if your economy can handle new cities being built of course.

 

[King of Town]

I always try to found judaisim because that is the only religion that has music I like. If i am playing someone who needs horses for their UU, and I don't find them I always start over. I tend not to play those people, but I like Cyrus too much. I like to go for cultural or diplomatic victories bercause I think they are mo0re challenging, but if someone suddenly declares war on me or a worker gets taken then I fight until the game is over.

 

[cuchulain]

I always build stonehenge and pyramids and if the AI beats me, I seriously consider quitting (except on the hardest difficulties.)

 

[rabidveggie]

Ya I always try to build every building for each city. For every city I build near multiple hills to turn every city into a production city. Sometimes I'll give up good recourse just to get a hill in my city.

 

[NYHunter]

I build a lot of buildings that I may not need just because it's there to build. I could just build wealth or culture but not when my city doesn't have an airport. No, sir.

 

[Swedishguy]

Oops, wrong thread. Ignore this.

 

[King Flevance]

But I usually can't bring myself to settle on grassland, or (heaven forbid!) floodplains.

LOL. I am the same way with Floodplains. I will throw my city scheme out of whack to salvage 1 more floodplains. Grassland I try to avoid but am not too worried about.

I always try to found judaisim because that is the only religion that has music I like.

I actually avoid Hinduism for this reason. I don't like the sound and it is actually the same sound from another game called Afterlife I used to play. It bugs me.

 

[lauralaura]

I like to leave my enemies with one city to their name -- preferably on a remote desert island -- so I can gloat and make arrogant demands. This is particularly amusing in my current game, in which five civs each founded a city on the same tiny island (there isn't room for a sixth). The Arabs and Carthaginians have already been exiled to it, and the Japanese will be within 15 turns.

I almost never build wonders until the renaissance era. If I pop a great engineer, fine, but otherwise, it's standard buildings, workers, settlers, and military forces only.

And I never use nukes, even though almost all my games go into the future era.

 

[Thedrin]

I will not split a large group of flood plains tiles between multiple cities. I will try to give one city as much of the flood plains as possible and I will base my city placement around giving this city as many flood plains as possible. As long as the city isn't unhealthy at size 1 - as long as there are enough health resources available - it can usually become a valuable commerce city or great people farm.

I tend not to found a religion for the sake of founding a religion. When I started playing CivIV, I - inspired by Sirian and Sulllas' hydra game - would always found as many as possible. It took a long time to break the habit and I don't intend to go back.

 

[LucyDuke]

I need to see every tile on the map. I won't stop exploring until there's nothing left to explore. I'll build subs to send under the ice caps just to see the most remote sea ice tiles. It's excessive, really.

 

[Saim]

I'm very much the opposite of silver_2039. I just can't get myself to raze cities, nor can I bring myself to pillage much.

I try to do it every now and then but it feels wasteful to cause so much destruction

Same... I only destroy things when I'm really, really poor

Which I'm not usually

With me, It is very hard for me to just wage war, even when I've been planning to for the whole game. I don't know why... I just like to not.

 

[magicalsushi]

I actually avoid Hinduism for this reason. I don't like the sound and it is actually the same sound from another game called Afterlife I used to play. It bugs me.

Hooray, another Afterlife fan! However, I *like* the Hindu music. It's my favourite of the religious tunes, and it was my favourite music in Afterlife's soundtrack too. Hinduism also gets a cool icon. I'm always pleased when it's worth my while to adopt it; normally I end up with Confucianism and Taoism for some reason.

 

[Khamul]

I always build large late-game navy. And then it bugs me, when AI don't have any ships to sink. Luckily BetterAI is better with ships too.

I don't chop that much, I like forest and later lumbermills. And I don't specialize my cities that much.

 

[King Flevance]

Hooray, another Afterlife fan! However, I *like* the Hindu music. It's my favourite of the religious tunes, and it was my favourite music in Afterlife's soundtrack too. Hinduism also gets a cool icon. I'm always pleased when it's worth my while to adopt it; normally I end up with Confucianism and Taoism for some reason.

Hehe, I am seriously amazed someone knew what game I was talking about. Hinduism does have a cool symbol. I like Buddhism's sound, Christianities, and Taoisms. Those are my favs.

 

[ggganz]

I like the Hindu sound. Taoism's creeps me out.