What game speed do you play on?

[blitzkrieg1980]

I go between Normal and Marathong. TBH, Epic feels weird and I never do well on epic (usually thinking I have more time for stuff than I do).

Normal is fun for a quicker game, but if I feel like RPing or really getting to know my civ, I'll play Marathon. I'd say it's 70/30 marathon/normal for me.

 

[Ramesses]

I play on Marathon, because I'm masochistic.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

My only Marathon game was excruciating. I compare it to watching paint dry. Epic for me!
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[ParadigmShifter]

I'm a normal person

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I'm a normal person

Who says?

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Hence the LOLZORS my Lemony chum

 

[Timoteo]

Lets say it takes 10 hours to complete on normal speed. Could I expect a epic game to take 15 hours because of the 50% increase in turns?

 

[blitzkrieg1980]

10 hours! I finish my Marathon games in 15 hours!

 

[Timoteo]

10 hours! I finish my Marathon games in 15 hours!

I just used 10 as round number for an example.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

My average Epic game lasts between 14 and 16 hours, so your estimate would be correct if I'm halfway normal.

I'm sure that ParadigmShifter will insist that I am not, however.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Your as normal as the rest of us dollface

My marathon games last 35-45 hours but I am slow.
Normal games last 9-15 hours.

Marathon speed you can play the first 200 turns quick but if you are in a big war and like to check your cities alot (like me) it takes a long time.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Umm... Dude, I paid for BtS. Steam billed me for BtS. It says BtS when the game loads up. I know the scenario was built in Warlords, so maybe that's why the scenario parameters are different. (shrugs) No biggie, but thanks that fix has seemed to have worked on a new game I started in that scenario.

Yeah, if it's a warlords-based scenarios it will still have the same # of turns as warlords in there by default. My bad.

Lets say it takes 10 hours to complete on normal speed. Could I expect a epic game to take 15 hours because of the 50% increase in turns?

It depends how you play. Epic adds about 10-20 minutes for me, so games will be around 3 hours rather than in the high 2:40 range, assuming I'm playing at emperor or immortal and not screwing around in a sub 2 hr noble game or something. Nevertheless, epic and/or marathon doesn't HAVE to take a lot longer.

 

[pi-r8]

Slower speeds do allow the player to have things happen in earlier years (especially marathon), but tanks in 1600-1700 is mostly going to be a skill improvement.

The best player I've seen had them in the 1300's on deity and used them along with bombers to completely flatten an entire map. I'm usually happy with infantry around 1600 but I do want to improve also.

it's worth noting that that overall tech pace is always going to be faster on higher difficulties, because the AIs tech so fast, and you can ride their coat tails a lot (stealing/trading with them). Also, the cost of a tech decreases if other civs have researched it. So if you're playing noble, and you have a big tech lead, it's hard to tech very fast because you have to research everything yourself and pay full price.

Anyway, standard speed for life, yo.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

it's worth noting that that overall tech pace is always going to be faster on higher difficulties, because the AIs tech so fast, and you can ride their coat tails a lot (stealing/trading with them). Also, the cost of a tech decreases if other civs have researched it. So if you're playing noble, and you have a big tech lead, it's hard to tech very fast because you have to research everything yourself and pay full price.

Anyway, standard speed for life, yo.

It's debate-able. The human pays more maintenance and gets increased tech costs on higher difficulties too. The fastest space launches ever are all on settler (obviously the boosts to the human trump the improperly managed deity AI bonuses). If a player is good enough that they equalize and run out in front of the AIs in tech at a given difficulty, they may benefit from a higher difficulty in terms of tech pace. However, top echelon players tech so rapidly that even on deity it's not necessarily clear.

Still, the fastest deity times are quite impressive but not like settler. Probably the middle difficulties (esp the noble-emp/immortal range) are slowest.

 

[DaveMurray]

I'm a Huge/Marathon Player myself. It makes warfare more fun especially on Pangaea maps. The only caveat is Civ tends to dominate my video game leisure time but that's alright.

 

[blitzkrieg1980]

I'm a Huge/Marathon Player myself. It makes warfare more fun especially on Pangaea maps. The only caveat is Civ tends to dominate my video game leisure time but that's alright.

Huge Marathon continents for intercontinental invasions were my thing. Now I do a mix of Big/Small, Med/Small, Fractal, Hemispheres, Terra.

I usually allow whatever game I'm currently playing to dominate my video game leisure time. It's why I'll seemingly disappear from civfanatics for a couple months and then reappear. I just came back to playing CIV last week. I had been playing oblivion for 2 months before that. I usually switch between CIV and some XBox360 game.

 

[mechaerik]

Epic. I started on normal, but now i only play epic games.

 

[bestbrian]

My only Marathon game was excruciating. I compare it to watching paint dry. Epic for me!
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Sounds like a problem with your girly attention span.

Huge/Marathon for me, and with life constraints on my play time, a game usually takes me a month or so to get through.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Sounds like a problem with your girly attention span.

Ok, ok, I am distracted by shiny things. But I keep them all out of the room when I play. Really.

Um... what was I saying?

 

[6K Man]

It's usually Epic these days. I like Marathon in the early game, but I also like huge maps, and Marathon just takes too long in the late game.

(I'd love to see a mod that allows you to adjust the game speed as the game progresses.)