What are your Civ quirks?

- Always spiritual or Agressive, those are my favorite traits, but I hate playing monty so it's usually either kubli kahn or saladin, occasionally i'll play ghandi and warmonger just to be ironic.
-I hardly ever use suicide cats, I don't really build siege weapons till cannons, I prefer wars of attrition unless I can take out a few nice little cities with heavily promoted swords/axes. Wars of atrittion tend to put them further behind in tech, cost me less, and reduce their score (this is why i like keshiks)
- If someone destroys a core city of mine, I get ultra pissed and go after them the rest of the game, I don't mind someone capturing but when a city gets destroyed there goes those hours of work I put in to perfecting all of the specialists and workers so the city is getting every single sheild or beaker it can possibly have.
- Yeah, I still call production things sheilds, hammers are stupid, long live the sheild!
- I hardly ever use planes or ships, in most games the only ships I build are galleys, caravels, galleons, and transports. Sometimes I will use destroyers if the enemy has an upgraded navy and rarely a battleship or two if my artillery can't get close enough to a city to reduce its defense.
- I love to just beat a civ silly until he is totally off of the continent and stuck with his colonies, then go into worldbuilder every few turns and check up on him, it's even more fun when you get every european civ off into the new world in the Earth1000AD scenario as saladin, they're at eachother's throats almost the moment you boot the last one out of europe.
 
Bushface said:
I never use slavery, nor caste system, and never automate workers (when there's nothing left for them to build, I pack them off to sleep in "rest camps" which, for some sentimental reason, I usually locate by the seaside or by a lake. Hope they appreciate my care !)
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Rofl thats SO me aswell:cool:
 
I never go for the space race. I guess because I just dislike building all that crap. I think it sort of defeats the purpose of everything else.
I'm a wonder addict. If I can build as many wonders as possible, I will.
I always build the oracle, and usually after that pick a tech that will found a religion.
If I want an easy opponent, I always make sure to have Brennus around. He is always at the bottom of the rung, low on technology, and always making stupid demands. I usuallly always wipe him out too. It's just so easy.
I ususally make sure NEVER to have the French around- both of their leaders are backstabbers, and almost always backstab me.
I always play with a financial leader, unless I feel like making war- then I always play with Tokogawa.
I always switch to "free religion" as soon as I can, even if other civs have my religion. I guess it's because I usually found more than one.
I always prefer caste system to slavery. I like my populations strong and big.
 
Oh, forgot to add- if I'm not playing Elizabeth and I get her as a rival, I always try to make friends with her. I guess this is because she is my favorite monach of all time, and I've done lots of historical research on her- enough to know what a fascinating ruler she was. There is something to be said for a single woman in that day and age that had to overcome so many obstacles. She lead her country to absolute glory, and for this I'll always admire her.
 
I oftenly take my time waging wars.
I never start early wars
I tend to play mainly on island maps (I want my own Island, I dont want to share with some other Civ :mwaha: )
 
* I always gun for circumnavigation and Liberalism.
* If I play as the Americans, sometimes I rename the first city from "Washington" to "New York".
* Unless I'm going for a cultural win, I don't worry too much about culture except insofar as it keeps rival civs from encroaching on my land.
*Which means, inevitably, that I'm always starting a war around 1700 against a (usually friendly) neighbor whose culture is overwhelming my borders.
* I almost never do an early rush....
* ....but I like to fight my first war when swords and catapults are available.
* I usually shun civs with strong early UUs, in favor of those who have a strong middle/late unit.
* My first builds: worker/settler/warrior (75% of the time) settler/worker/warrior (20% of the time).
* I LOVE to sally forth large task forces consisting of battleships, destroyers, carriers, and marines/Navy SEALs.
* I don't use Mercantilism that often.
* I replaced the flags for various civs with their more modern variants (e.g., Union Jack for England.)
 
Some quirks -
I will always mine hills.. always
I alter between farms and cottages
I will always shoot for Confucianism as my religion of choice
I love building the great wall & spiral minaret
I alternate between fractal and archipegalo
I'll usually choose a financial leader (or industrial)
I tend to dislike constantly warring (hence my penchant for archipegalos)
I will usually restart if Montezuma's my closest neighbor.
I finish less than half of the games I start
I love cultural victories with Qin or Elizabeth.
 
- Always random opponents

- Always leave at least one city poorly defended (unintentionally - usually a case of "oh it can wait another few turns before it gets another defender, I'll build a market instead") and consequently it gets attacked and usually captured very easily. I'm trying to stop this ...but I can't help it!!

- I always build Stonehenge so those new cities get the monument and culture growth without me having to worry, and I start getting GP points early so I get a Great Prophet which I usually use to build my religions shrine in the holy city

- I rush to get an early religion always Hinduism.

- Any war I'm in usually lasts hundereds of years(and turns!) as I go for slow grinding down of my opponent by attrition, especially if they attacked me first. This usually leads me to fall behind in the tech race.

- I start many more games than I've finished....

- I'll try to build as many wonders as possible (and get really annoyed when someone beats me to it by a few turns...those last few turns before I complete one get very anxious!!)

- I never give in to demands

- I rarely trade techs. Definitely wont if it's a Civ who is likely to attack me ie. French



Probably some more, but can't think of them at moment!!

Looking forward to getting some ganmes in over the Christmas holidays!! :D :D

Later..
I.
 
I have never played on a higher level than monarch, so my strategies maybe would be different on higher levels. However, this is my list for the moment:

I always play continents on huge map.
I always play Gandhi because of the traits and the fast worker.
I never play a map where the starting location is near the ocean. I always hope my starting location is near the center of the continent.
I never play a map which doesn't have at least 2 gems on grassland without jungle in my capital's fat cross. (So, I spend much time searching.)
I never continues a game that not has at least 5 opponents on my continent.
I always go for open borders with everyone.
I never build The Pyramids, because the time it requires to build it so early in the game slows my expansion. I build settlers instead.
I always build The Oracle, The Great Library, The Hanging Gardens and The Colossus because of the great people points.
I always choose metal casting for the free tech gained trough The Oracle.
I always try to circumnavigate the world first.
I always try to research liberalism first and then choose astronomy to be the free tech.
I always try to found both hinduism and judaism in my capital.
I never research meditation, sailing, archery, horseback riding, iron working, calendar, construction, engineering and divine right myself. I gain them by trade instead.
I always try to build The Three Gorges Dam with 2 engineers. I also try to use 1 engineer on The Statue Of Liberty, The Pentagon and The United Nations.
I never build Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, The Great Lighthouse, The Parthenon, The Temple Of Artemis nor The Sistine Chapel.
I never build lumbermills except on tundra.
I always try to research civil service as fast as possible, but throug currency.
I never build archers before I have enough of chariots.
I always try to go to war with at least one opponent before he/she gets access to longbowmen.
I never build nukes.
 
-I always play on a standard size map with 7 civs total
-I always play on noble.
-When playing a non-spiritual civ, I wait until I can switch to both Organized Religion AND slavery at the same time with only 1 turn of anarchy
-I don't fight wars until I can at least build catapults
-I always strive to own the entire continent I started on by the end of the game.
-I tend not attack other land masses that require crossing the sea, as I find building up all those transports to be annoying.
 
-i never open borders on my own continent until i've settled what i consider "my area" fully.
-i'll settle a city right up next to a rival civ's city if they get too close to "my area" and try to culture them out. in a recent game i did that with New York, which ended up flipping to me. i realized i could probably easily get a culture victory using my first 2 cities and the one by Washington i'd named "PushUS". i hadn't planned for that type of victory but won easily. the US capital, Washington, finally revolted the turn before my 3 hit legendary. i kept that save, one of these days i may go back and do the "one more turn" thing just to see if it ever flips too.
-i found an early religion if at all possible, and if i get more than one, i'll change my state religion if one spreads to somebody on my continent via river or coast (cuz of no open borders). i leave the choice of who i worship to them which sounds kind of weird but politically makes sense.
-i put a missionary on each of 2 caravels to rush to circumnavigate, and to spread my religion when i'm playing continents. i just have to have the free spying intelligence on cities with my religion, and the money doesn't hurt either.
-i do a weird combo of trying to rush for the liberalism free tech but also to put it off as late as i can to get a really expensive free tech (democracy if i'm playing low enough level)
-i don't ever have a "pure food farm" city that just makes as much food as possible to purely run specialists, but i do like as many of my cities as feasible grow and be big. this makes hubby laugh at what he calls my "sim city" stage of developing cities/infrastructure/terrain improvements before i go slaughter the bad guys.
-i name all my units for the promotions they get, to keep track. CR1 CR2 CR3 for melee city raider units, Barr1+ for barrage 1/accuracy cats, etc. i use barbs to make "nurse" chariots that have medic 1, and then "doctor" once they get to medic 2. i never ever upgrade those chariots, so that they're not defending when the stack gets attacked. they're purely support and i get a kick out of seeing them run around with infantry and cavalry.
-i get a kick out of pillaging improvements in territory that's neutral after razing a city, while i'm moving SOD1 up to SOD2 that's fighting the other cities far off.
-sometimes i bring my "army corp of engineers", like 8 workers that have nothing to do on my own lands, to road or railroad the neutral territory after razing a city to get to the next city faster. if they die, they die, if they live it cuts down on travel time.
-all my cities get renamed. Peepsville is my capital (i love Peeps what can i say?), the rest are named after what resources or terrain features they're placed for. Silver Fur, Spicy Horses, Flooded Cows, etc. in 2 games i've had a city named "Pig Iron" which is my absolute favorite combo to get in one city.
 
- I hate space victory. I disable it every game. In my very first game of Civ 4 I played, it ended up being a space race between me and India and I somehow felt cheated that the entire game ended up resting on such a thing.
- Even if I intend to be a ruthless tyrant and conquer, my desire to research and build up my cities gets the best of me (and I pay for it)
- Not much of a navy person. If I'm on a continent I tend to stay on it and dominate it as well as possible.
- Have difficulty trusting other civs. Even if I tell myself I want to befriend someone and me the best of friends with them through the entire game, I eventually grow distrusting of their growing power and ruin our relationship by denying their requests.
- By no fault of mine I seem to have a target on my head that says "Attack me, Montezuma." Every game he decides to beat the **** out of me even if he's across the map.
- I may or may not put priority on rushing religion, but if I don't get one of the first religions I always try and rush to Christianity.
- Honestly, I'm not much of a wonder builder.
- I control every one of my workers and what they do until there is nothing left to build anywhere. For some reason my attention to detail doesn't carry over to cities, where I let the automatic governor take over.
- Early on I'm usually the largest civ because I always rush settlers as quick as I can.
- Always build production increasing tile improvements over anything else.
 
- I won't have any more than 3 cities untill I discover Currency, and no moree than 5 till I get Banking. It keeps some cash in pocket...
- I also rush to circumnavigate
- I Love building wonders
- I almost always play on a continents map... don't know why... there's always two, and they're always in the same freaking place...
- Always use Caste System till there's a better option
- I don't actually have a state religion until I'm decently into the game. I wait and see what everyone else picks so I can be in with the crowd!
 
-Always use Slavery. = no other civic in its list beats it.

i truly hate how the game is anti-slavist and pro-democratic, what with the bias to thier respectic civics being "o' so great" (Emancicapation cripples a player on the 24civ games)
 
Shawnosaurus said:
I was thinking this morning that I have grown into some Civ quirks or tendencies in my play style. So I thought I would share mine and see if y'all have some also. These are not so much strategies as reflections of my personality on to my play style.

- I always play Archipelago because I love the nautical units.
- I rush to circumnavigate first. I just think it's cool.
- I love the water and wind mills. They seem cool so I build them a lot.
- I tend to have the lowest or very low power rating. I'm not a good war general.
- I deny open borders for almost the entire game.
- I try and keep my first scout unit alive for the whole game without hiding him in a city. Never succeeded yet.
- I won't use the slavery civic because I feel bad.

These little things probably hold me back in winning somewhat, but they're also what makes the game fun for me.

What about you?
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haha, yes - I've only used Slavery once, and when I did a rush, I felt bad.

With many games like this, I guess I get into the roleplay and always feel compelled to treat my citizens right. Yea, even if they don't really exist. I don't like the 'feel good' civics either; however. I tend to use what matches my play style, I like the Caste System.

I feel compelled to discover a religion and I tend to spread it pretty much. Of course, mainly for my own 'espionage' reasons, as I can see lots of what's going on in the world that way. I really have no preference to which one, I end up with Confusionism a lot, because I take a fairly quick path to the caste system.

I love to keep a Swordsman in my Capital City for the whole game. Preferably one that really 'shone' in the early game, like being the last standing man defending a city. Just the other day *one* freakin' Barb unit of Archers plowed through 3 of my Archers and 2 groups of Warriors, the last Warrior held his ground in the city!! That game was all downhill, but that kinda unit I'll keep around. It's funny to see an old unit surrounded by Infantry, Tanks, and Aircraft, hehe

I never clear all the trees, I like to keep my area as pristine as possible. I'm not an eco-nut, although I do respect God's art quite a bit :bowdown:

Open Borders, I'll give in once I have solidified my position. Once I gave open borders and some Civ snuck in and started plopping down cites behind me.

I use 'smart map' and always play 4-7 Continents. I like the cross-continent battles. They end up making for a very long game, I always disable a time victory, that suits me just fine.

Although I'd not real adept at battles yet, I just refuse to play on any setting but Noble - for now. I was off playing some other games a while until I recently got Warlords, I was playing on Prince typically then, but I got a bit rusty.
 
I ALWAYS PLAY TERRA its just sooo much fun but its dissapointing when uve been winnnig all game and right when u enter the modern era all the AIs **** u in technology, army, production, and just plain everything
 
more from me (oh boy)

- i pick slavery when it becomes available but i almost never remember to use it. maybe 3 times per game. and i forget to chop forests. apparently i'm having a major issue adjusting to those changes from Civ3, they clearly can be very very powerful in Civ4, but only if you remember them, and aren't deathly afraid of health issues since you like your cities to be big (points at self).
- i use Serfdom perhaps more than anybody on this thread. as mentioned above, i love big cities and i MM the improvements (down to placing signs on the forests that are shared between 2 cities so that they don't ever get chopped). if i'm forgetting to whip the slaves, might as well improve my workers. guess who played as india for many of her first Civ4 games?
- i use Caste System a lot. depending on population, food, and if i'm in Mercantilism and Representation (which is often) it's such a handy civic. (hubby didn't believe me on the awesomeness of this til our latest coop game ... even before Statue of Liberty every new city you build has an extra hammer and 3 beakers of science, so nifty!)
- i've never used Nationhood or State Property. one of these days i have to try out the workshop thing.
 
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