What are your Civ play-style idiosyncrasies?

[Alsark]

What I do is God awful... I build no military... at all, except for maybe the one per city to avoid my citizens from becoming angry. I really don't think that I need to go into an explanation as to why this isn't a good idea... I tend to set all of the AIs as peaceful ones, but even still, if they decide to declare war on me for whatever reason then I'm toast.

 

[FatSean]

I just love to spread onto other continents. I'll often charge to Astronomy and settle on another continent...resulting two weaker groups of cities. But if I stay alive, I'm usually kicking ass on two fronts resulting in huge tracts of land under my control!

Also, I hold grudges forever...any civ that declares war on me gets put on the **** list

 

[feldmarshall]

if i don't know what to build i usually take the second "Recommended" one

 

[sourboy]

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.

I've done this a lot back in Civ3. If I had a tiny island that was unstable, I'd give an enemy civ one of the cities, to appease them while I'd mass an army -- then I'd wipe them off the mainland, leaving them on the island. Once I had 4 civs on that island, leaving an entire continent to me, and the other the final battleground with the 6th civ.

 

[sourboy]

speaking of civ3...

I used to plant forests on any tile that was unused within my borders, just to appease my treehugger side I guess? I dunno, but my lands always looked nicer, lol.

 

[Nials]

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.

I don't enjoy waging war that much either but I do love to reap the benefits of it.

Thinking of warring as a way to expand and obtain new resources has helped me break the habit a bit. I go to war not to kill, but to build

 

[The Mad Swede]

In the late game when my workers have nothing to do I have to railroad every single piece of land that I have cultural influence over. I think it looks untidy otherwise. I think this comes from Civ3 where railroads gave bonuses to all tiles.

 

[thordk]

i'm somewhat stubborn in regards of researching. rarely i chose different paths than the one i'm used to and that works well most of the time. guess i shouldn't focus so much on all of those nice little techs ^^

 

[T.rex]

I always end up going insane (playing Stalin) and nuke everything.....I think those nuke mushroom clouds are so nifty....

"Well, they glowed nice....."

- Stalin

 

[Steve the Noble]

Micromanaging. Especially workers. I know that using automated functions for cities and workers will make the game much quicker (and maybe make some better decisions), but I can't bear to give up the control!

 

[The Mad Swede]

Micromanaging. Especially workers. I know that using automated functions for cities and workers will make the game much quicker (and maybe make some better decisions), but I can't bear to give up the control!

Never automate your workers! It gives too many farms and workshops and too few cottages.

Oh, and I thought of another thing I like to do; When playing world map I alwas name the cities after their correct modern name according to their location. Sometimes I have to look in an atlas to get the correct name.

 

[auto-suggestion]

I'm not a bitter man, really. Early in my Civ IV career I was patently victimised and largely humiliated by Montezuma and his apparently limitless supply of elephants. Never one to hold a grudge. If he appears in any game, no matter how far I have to travel, no matter who gets in the way, no matter how difficult the challenge... I will destroy him.

I'm not bitter, really.

 

[XxtraLarGe]

As for the earlier posters, what weird quirks ! Why devastate conquered areas which you then need to redevelop to gain any benefit ?

Because if you can destroy a road that leads to a horse pasture or copper/iron mine, you can severely cripple your opponent.

 

[Nestorius]

I'm sort of addicted to diplomacy and balance of power instead of conquest. I can never bring myself to conquer unless I'm attacked, unless I definately need the resources and land of a weaker opponent to defend myself against a stronger. Space race is getting boring, though.

 

[King Flevance]

In the late game when my workers have nothing to do I have to railroad every single piece of land that I have cultural influence over. I think it looks untidy otherwise. I think this comes from Civ3 where railroads gave bonuses to all tiles.

Oh yeah speaking of roads, I don't road all tiles. I make specific routes throughout my empire. If I take new land where the AI has roaded a tile I don't like, after I make peace I go into WB and delete any of the roads I don't like. I have done this for so long, I can tell you what a road will look like on what tile before you build it.

In further news:

Also, I will never declare war on people that are at "high pleased" status or cancel deals, or stop trading with them - including techs. That doesn't seem too weird but sometimes I run across games like my current one where Japan is in Friendly status and beating me by about 300 points. Actually, they are the leaders of the pack. Followed by India by only 100 points, whom I am also Friendly with. Then Followed by Mansa whom I am at high pleased with. (Almost Friendly.)

They are all almost in the modern age and I am about to finally hit the industrial age. Yet, I don't want to invade. Japan and India are buddies, and my only hope really is that they will start to hate Mansa whom they are across the globe from. (unlikely) I don't think I will be winning this game but maybe I can pull something out of my sleeve. My only real hopes at this point are Diplomatic or Space Race. Although, if invaded either Japan or India my chances for winning would go up significantly.

I actually got both victories. I got diplomatic first, then reloaded and never opted for diplomatic victory again to see if I could beat everyone to the sapce victory and I did.

BTW does anyone know how to remove victories from your HOF screen? I really don't want the space race from that game on there. I just wanted to know if I could get it.

 

[Glored]

Never automate your workers! It gives too many farms and workshops and too few cottages.

Oh, and I thought of another thing I like to do; When playing world map I alwas name the cities after their correct modern name according to their location. Sometimes I have to look in an atlas to get the correct name.

I thought it was too many farms and towns and too few workshops, that's what happened when i automated my worker.

 

[ggganz]

Automated workers hook up resources, then go farm and windmill crazy and never build cottages or mines.

 

[gmanne]

I must have elephants.

 

[sneaky]

I always try to be the first to circumventing the globe, get Liberalism, build the Oracle and get all the other "free things".

Also I like to try to build the Great Wall, because I love how it looks on the map.

 

[spider1]

I seem to be hooked on Bismark. The combination of an explorer to get those goody huts right from the start and fast wonders is to much to resist.

I don't chop either, I love those forests and lumbermills. I always go for the enviroment civ and build hospitals wheither I need them or not. I work at a hospital, so there.

I try to get astronomy as soon as possible so I can colonize those out of the way islands. If they have a barbarian city, that's fantastic because then I can just sent a few Knights to take the city and don't have to waste turns building and shipping a settler.

Early game: Stonehenge, always, always. It sure helps get those early citys to expand out.

Middle Game: Astronomy and ships to expore

Late game: if I am not bored and haven't quit yet, try to build cities in the last few remaing spots and just turn them on automatic so I don't have to screw with them. I just want the population points to help if I have to go with a UN victory.