What are your Civ play-style idiosyncrasies?

[Diamondeye]

I always hit the Oracle as soon as possible and use it to get CodeOfLaws, founding Confucianism (Playing Elizabeth and Caesar mainly so not man chances for the really early religions.). I usually also found Taoism and Christianity, but for some reason I hate founding Islam. I never, never search Divine right if i have a sensible choice.

I hate Montezuma.

I... never build workshops. I really hate them.

I chop. Like hell. All forests not within my small X (four squares ,directly ,around the city - 7,9,1 and 3 on the numpad. This is the only places where they grant health in Vanilla 1.00.

I am nearly always the loner. - Last to hit the caravels, simply because I dont care about them. Also, I dont care about The Pyramids (stupid, I know, because that means my enemies gets Architects to finish more wonders I want!) or the Globe Theatre. I've never built the Globe theatre yet.

I backstab. Theres only a very few AIs I care for. Ghandi and Roosevelt, maybe Catherine aswell... In my first game I took to the end, I played the Inca. I was allied to France (Napoleon) and waging war with Tokugawa as usually. The was lived on and then, in 20-something, I finally completed The Manhattan Project. When I play Time victories, I unleash a serious wave of nukes on all threatening my score in anno 2049.

 

[Nials]

I always hit the Oracle as soon as possible and use it to get CodeOfLaws, founding Confucianism (Playing Elizabeth and Caesar mainly so not man chances for the really early religions.). I usually also found Taoism and Christianity, but for some reason I hate founding Islam. I never, never search Divine right if i have a sensible choice.

I hate Montezuma.

I... never build workshops. I really hate them.

I chop. Like hell. All forests not within my small X (four squares ,directly ,around the city - 7,9,1 and 3 on the numpad. This is the only places where they grant health in Vanilla 1.00.

I am nearly always the loner. - Last to hit the caravels, simply because I dont care about them. Also, I dont care about The Pyramids (stupid, I know, because that means my enemies gets Architects to finish more wonders I want!) or the Globe Theatre. I've never built the Globe theatre yet.

I backstab. Theres only a very few AIs I care for. Ghandi and Roosevelt, maybe Catherine aswell... In my first game I took to the end, I played the Inca. I was allied to France (Napoleon) and waging war with Tokugawa as usually. The was lived on and then, in 20-something, I finally completed The Manhattan Project. When I play Time victories, I unleash a serious wave of nukes on all threatening my score in anno 2049.

I love workshops! Those and watermills are brilliant in production cities when running State Property, the only real economic civic I tend to run except for Decentralization of course.

Chopping is something I also do a lot. I tend to think too little about what the hammers are going into and more about getting forests chopped so I can improve the land.

I also skip the Pyramids, simply because I think it's just too many hammers. Also, in Vanilla I was constantly beat to them so I mostly left them alone. I have noticed that the AI places much less emphasis on them in Warlords so maybe I should try building them more often. With that being said, I am not very comfortable with SE, one of the reasons I tend to skip them.

With all that being said, I probably build too little military early on. I rarely manage to annihilate my neighbour in the BC years, something I hope to work on because I have noticed how much of a huge difference it makes. I just can't help constructing all those shiny buildings instead

 

[Swedishguy]

The most stupid thing I've done is to make a revolution in a golden age. How can someone be so stupid?!

 

[jesusin]

The most stupid thing I've done is to make a revolution in a golden age. How can someone be so stupid?!

Yes, I can.

I visit every city every turn and carefully consider if micromanaging is needed. I build less workers than I need, because they will take so much of my time in the endgame, when they really have nothing usefull to do.

I try not to found any religion, I only build missionaries in cultural games and I have yet to build a Shrine. And of course, I have never sent a missionary to foreign lands. Not only that: I even go as far as to consider other people founding religions a mistake, and I tell them so in the GOTM spoilers.

 

[DrewBledsoe]

I absolutely love the fact that some people (sort of) role play CIV and aren't obssessed with finding the best possible strategy all the time. This is so refreshing to hear. It's not Chess. Here's to all those who just play for playings sake

My only rule (when playing standard personalities, which I don't do anymore), is:-

1) If Isabella exists anywhere in the game, she must be utterly destroyed without mercy, even if she (heaven forbid) wishes to be your best friend.
2) You must then take off and nuke her from orbit (hey, it's the only way to be sure)..

Its in THE RULES you see

 

[Welnic]

...
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.

There is a folder called replays that contains your HOF games. If you move a file out of there then it won't show up. Their names aren't very helpful, you'll have to experiment to remove the one you need.

C:\Documents and Settings\yourName\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Replays

 

[Onagan]

I never built stables, their got obsolete. all building that are going to be obsolete are almost never build.

 

[Goldflash]

I name my units! Espiecally boats, but if I start early enough, sometime I do ALL units "5th Thebes Defense Division" "AES Montezuma CV-01" "32nd Fighter Squadron". Hehe. I'm a nerd.

Also, I build Coloseum's alot, because I like that noise it makes.

 

[mattr0cka]

I get really annoyed if someone beats me to building Stonehenge.

I also have to discover Confucianism and Christianity.

mattr0cka

Ok, so we all play Civ to enjoy the game/seek victory. However, many probably do things in the game that they know are counter-productive, strictly for personal satisfaction or stubbornness. What must you do every Civ game, that others probably don't do?

 

[Swedishguy]

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I... never build workshops. I really hate them.
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Hey, that's not because you're stoopid, that's because you have common sense.

 

[King Flevance]

There is a folder called replays that contains your HOF games. If you move a file out of there then it won't show up. Their names aren't very helpful, you'll have to experiment to remove the one you need.

C:\Documents and Settings\yourName\My Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Replays

Thanks a ton for this info Welnic.

 

[mattr0cka]

1) If Isabella exists anywhere in the game, she must be utterly destroyed without mercy, even if she (heaven forbid) wishes to be your best friend.
2) You must then take off and nuke her from orbit (hey, it's the only way to be sure)..

How dare you!

Isabellas' a babe, in fact I always give her the gift of music.

Man I need a life.

mattr0cka

 

[King Flevance]

LOL. I always try to get her to be my ally. I find she is the hardest one to do that with though. That's one of the reasons I always play Random Personalities though.

 

[mattr0cka]

LOL. I always try to get her to be my ally. I find she is the hardest one to do that with though. That's one of the reasons I always play Random Personalities though.

She's quite the character. She always seems to discover Buddhism. I'll take her over that harlet Catherine any day.

 

[AThousandYoung]

Sometimes my units decide what to do on their own. I have a pair of Samurai who insist on scouting as a pair when I know one would do. I think they're in love or something.

 

[mikeocarroll]

I always f**k-up pre-chopping by forgetting to tell my worker to stop chopping, meaning that I end up chopping hammers for something that I don't really want (or at least don't want to build quickly). Must be about 80&#37; of my "pre-chops" end up as actual chops through forgetfulness and stupidity!

 

[King of Town]

I always f**k-up pre-chopping by forgetting to tell my worker to stop chopping, meaning that I end up chopping hammers for something that I don't really want (or at least don't want to build quickly). Must be about 80% of my "pre-chops" end up as actual chops through forgetfulness and stupidity!

You know i've got to say that i never chop. I like the health onus, and the fact that you can build lumbermills in those cities. Plus you get that extra hammer of production the entire game, and not just 90 or whatever to build the oracle. I only play on noble so far, so maybe it is more useful in the higher levels, but I just can't do it.

 

[WingedPaladin]

I'm a pacifist and don't like to see all I've worked for being laid to waste, so I usually play Always Peace and No Barbarians. This lets me focus more on improving science, culture, and health.

If playing a standard game, I don't like to be the one to declare war. I believe ethics and moral accountability applies whether or not it is "real life" because what is in the mind and heart is "real life". I believe what is done in a game is a reflection of who we are inside, and who we are and what we become inside can last forever.

(I'm a long time veteran gamer and had to toss out most of my games when I came to this stark realization.)

I try to found most of the religions and pick one to spread (usually Christianity since that is my background) to make my people and neighbors happy. I usually go for Astronomy and Physics as techs once available since that is my BA.

In my Hawaiian heritage, use of the stars for sailing was crucial. Hawaiians had their own constellations too. For example, the Scorpio constellation was seen as the demigod Maui's fishhook with which he pulled the islands out of the sea.

 

[zagaz]

I like to go for Judaism, also, as someone else mentioned, I like to get the free things like Circumnavigating, the Oracle, etc.

Always adopt state property. On another note, a friend who also plays never goes for state property, doesn't even discover communism, he is British and always wants to get stonehenge, and found christianity, and gets upset when other religions start spreading.

Isabella must be destroyed, I try sometimes to be friends, but, she is too much of a pain in the arse. 1 game, she happened to be the same religion, we even shared common enemies, i felt dirty the whole time.

In civ 3 I LOVED Fascism, would always used it as soon as I could.

Found as many coastal cities as I can, I prefer coastal cities for some reason.

I also tend to 'roleplay' depending on which leader I have, always choose random and there must be raging barbarians, makes the early game rather hectic.

This is really hard to do, and it is a throwback to earlier civs, I try to get EVERY wonder, only I may possess wonders, no one else. I usually fail miserably and I tend to suffer for it.

All my early units have guerilla promotions so they can move through the trees and explore, while still defend like mad when they are exploring.

I rarely pillage, and usually only resources, it pains me to reduce towns to nothing, I can't help but feel it is like shooting myself in the foot because that will soon belong to me and I will have to redevelop it, and every tree must go.

It is good to see some other people have the same quirks, I don't feel so....special

 

[Swedishguy]

In civ 3 I LOVED Fascism, would always used it as soon as I could.

Um... Fascism wasn't represented in Civ III. Did you mean Civ II?