What are your hours played

[Disgustipated]

Can I absolutely love the game and have fewer than 200 hours?

Of course. I know some people have full time jobs or full time significant others.

As for me, I am semi retired. I can't afford to retire, but I have cut back my hours. I did have to come in Wednesday morning, however since my company needed me. But otherwise I only work weekends.

I'm currently playing Ashoka. But I am disappointed that the Chola unique district seems bugged. I can't seem to put both unique buildings on the same quarter for some reason.

 

[Daigotsu Max]

I thought I was doing a lot with 151 hours. Over 200, damn. That's commitment!

 

[Pfeffersack]

0, as I haven't bought it (yet). There is the part in me wanting to try out the array of changes I have seen and I feel I would like, but so far it is sucessfully contained by the side thinking of what will probably not appeal to me. Sure, I could just use Steams 2h free trial period, but I don't think that will be enough to get a full picture anyway - especially because I expect the real downsides being past stuff like a bad UI and rather long-term, e.g. a too railroaded gameplay taking away the sandbox feeling. And for just going the risk of purchasing and hoping that future development will take care of everything...well, thats for me ok for a game on sale or maybe even the standard price...but not for what is charged here ATM.

 

[Nigel_Tufnel2]

I'm currently playing Ashoka. But I am disappointed that the Chola unique district seems bugged. I can't seem to put both unique buildings on the same quarter for some reason.

The gold producing one needs to be on the Coast, maybe that's the problem?

 

[Disgustipated]

The gold producing one needs to be on the Coast, maybe that's the problem?

That's probably it. Oh well. That game is complete already.

 

[Leucauge]

According to Steam I only have 160 on Civ6 -- but I feel like they must be missing something. Civ5 I'm at a very mid 320. And Civ7, despite some initial misgivings, I'm already up to 60!

 

[Gambito]

17.9 hours so far. I haven't finished my first game yet. Work and parenthood is not allowing me much time to play.

I've been playing since Civ II. I've enjoyed every game since, while reading complaints from other players saying that they're gonna wait for the next iterarion because this one is awful. This is the first time I'm tempted to say, "so, how long for Civ VIII then?"

Maybe I'm worn out from 6 which I played to death, but for the past year I would start a new game and just quit after an hour.

Mixing Leaders and Civs doesn't do it for me. I just can't deal with seeing Ben Franklin leading Rome, the Normans, etc. I'm playing with Tecumseh, and I just got to the modern era. I decided to pick Mexico since Ben was in the game and I wanted to leave America to him, but it felt like meh, I don't care about picking any of these available Civs. I wish at least there was a modern era Native American Civ

The Age transition and reset is horrible. When the Crisis starts, if I'm not at war I just feel like I'm doing pointless decisions of what to build, etc. I don't like the rush that is going to end and I have to survive the scenario. This is just how it feels, like I'm just playing scenarios and I never liked them. I like my open sandbox style.

I'm really confused when it comes to building urban districts over existing rural districts, I can't tell what yields I'm losing. I reached to the point like, whatever, I'll just put this here.

I never like to use mods in any game, only those that improve the UI, but not the core game mechanics. I might decide to use mods that will allow me to keep one Civ for the entire game, if such thing wouldn't break the game.

I think it would just take a long time to adapt, but definitely for the first time, I'm dissapointed with a Civ game.

 

[KayAU]

I haven't bought it, but hours played is an interesting indicator of how good a game is, yet not an infallible one. For example, I have more than 2.5k hours in Civ 6, but a lot of those were quite tedious, as the game really drags towards the end. In Civ 5 I have over 3.5k. Some of those were tedius as well, although fewer than with Civ 6. About 1k of them were after I gave up on Civ 6.

Then you have other games like Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes which is just below 400, but I'm pretty sure I enjoyed almost all of those. It's a game I play from time to time, then put away. Civ games are different to me. I tend to play to the end compulsively, and for Civ 6 in particular, I was willing to play through a lot of tedium, probably in large part because of my positive experiences with previous iterations. Every time something new was released, i would go back to play it, as I was waiting for the game to become something it didn't really become for me.

Also, the playtime for turn based games get a bit inflated, due to the fact that they are often not that resource intensive and by nature always paused. I sometimes just leave them running while doing something else.

 

[Canadian Bluebeer]

96.x Gonna stay that way for a bit too.

Let's see what the patches bring.

 

[King Flevance]

I am currently at about 90 hours played on Civ 7. I am certainly enjoying it but am looking forward to the patch. I suspect I will break 100 hours this weekend. But this upcoming week will be busy. I dont think I will be able to break 150 for a couple weeks.

It has taken about 90% of my total gaming time. And about 60-70% of my total free time. (Gaming time falls in to my total free time.)

 

[Disgustipated]

99.6 after finishing my Augustus game. I won't have time to play this weekend, so I won't break 100 until next week.

 

[Noble Zarkon]

4 complete games (varying speeds / age length) plus a few Antiquity Age run throughs, now sitting at 135 hours.

 

[Graethyenne]

17.9 hours so far. I haven't finished my first game yet. Work and parenthood is not allowing me much time to play.

I've been playing since Civ II. I've enjoyed every game since, while reading complaints from other players saying that they're gonna wait for the next iterarion because this one is awful. This is the first time I'm tempted to say, "so, how long for Civ VIII then?"

Maybe I'm worn out from 6 which I played to death, but for the past year I would start a new game and just quit after an hour.

Mixing Leaders and Civs doesn't do it for me. I just can't deal with seeing Ben Franklin leading Rome, the Normans, etc. I'm playing with Tecumseh, and I just got to the modern era. I decided to pick Mexico since Ben was in the game and I wanted to leave America to him, but it felt like meh, I don't care about picking any of these available Civs. I wish at least there was a modern era Native American Civ

The Age transition and reset is horrible. When the Crisis starts, if I'm not at war I just feel like I'm doing pointless decisions of what to build, etc. I don't like the rush that is going to end and I have to survive the scenario. This is just how it feels, like I'm just playing scenarios and I never liked them. I like my open sandbox style.

I'm really confused when it comes to building urban districts over existing rural districts, I can't tell what yields I'm losing. I reached to the point like, whatever, I'll just put this here.

I never like to use mods in any game, only those that improve the UI, but not the core game mechanics. I might decide to use mods that will allow me to keep one Civ for the entire game, if such thing wouldn't break the game.

I think it would just take a long time to adapt, but definitely for the first time, I'm dissapointed with a Civ game.

There are some fantastic mods (available here at CivFanatics) that really help with some of the UI issues you are talking about, in particular once that shows you the gains and losses for overbuilding. I don't want to be a pest, but I am happy to share which ones I am using that feel are enhancing my experience.

The ages/crisis can seem pretty chaotic and messy at first blush, but you have more control over it than it seems (or at least more insight into what is going on). Also, worst case, for your second game you can change the age progress acceleration, to slow it down to give you more room.

The way things work now, I think it would be pretty unsatisfying to play one civ across three ages because their abilities can be very age specific. I don't know if playing Han->Ming->Qing would work better for you since that is China across all three ages. (India has a similar path).

The mod that might fix your issue (which doesn't exist yet as far as I know) is one that flips the Civ mechanics to the leaders and vice versa. So you pick one Civ with one or two abilities at the start of the game along with a leader that is more packed. Then each age you get a new Leader with new abilities that are age appropriate. Like I said, I don't know think it exists yet, but t doesn't seem like an impossible thing to exist.

Anyhow, best of luck with life's responsibilities and hopefully you get more enjoyment out of the game going forward.

G

 

[Eramas]

105 hours, finishing my 5th game.

 

[sixty4half]

117 - 5 Victories, a Cultural and a Military victory in Modern and 3 Military victories in Ancient.

Ibn getting 3 Military attribute points (1 momento and 2 from his ability) led me to my first Terra Incognito (it's 7's version of Pangea) Ancient era victory. Then, when I finished a full game with Tubman and Catherine the Great I just needed a little xp to get their lvl 5 momento so I did another Terra Incognto game with them too.

 

[Giskler]

Just in time for Tuesday!

 

[Zaarin]

Only 32 so far. I've been working, I've also been playing KCD2 (also at about 31 hours), and I don't spend all my free time gaming. Oh, and I don't want to burn out before I can rage over everything they got wrong with Phoenicia Carthage.