What is your most common victory type?

[Thalassicus]

Which victory type(s) do you generally complete the game with?

 

[Jaybe]

Believing that winning a game sooner does not garner appreciably higher score, I try to delay my victory as long as possible. With large continent/epic/prince games, I've (almost) never won domination but win sci or cul with a few diplos.

Of course, with an occasional runaway civ on another continent, sometimes I just Don't.

My main problem with domination is I am very good at procrastinating war declarations. I'm in my 2nd VEM game (I used to play Mentos' Unity mod), and it may be my 2nd VEM loss. I am INTIMIDATED by the huge financial reserves of half the remaining civs (good thing they seem to just enjoy hoarding it instead of unit upgrades, assuring a diplo vic, etc).

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ADDENDUM: Upon review of my HOF, throughout my civ5 history my record is: Science 10;
Cultural, Diplomatic & Domination 7 each; Time 3.
Defeats are 2 diplo, 2 science & 1 time. Almost all games were Large continents/Epic/Prince.

I had voted science & diplo.

Rambling time:
My 1st VEM game was one of the diplo or science defeats. My 2nd was a diplo victory brought about by too many friendly CSs with Great Engineer quests achieved on the turn a UN Vote was due (which I had previously avoided). Was 3 turns from completing my last spaceship part; the Poly's hadn't installed 2 parts despite their being 6 techs ahead.

 

[Catastrophe90]

I usually end up winning via science, mostly because a) I'm not really an aggressive player and b) I usually like to wait until Satellites before winning so that I can see what the whole world looks like.

 

[Dunkah]

Seems to me that I need to Dominate several opponents regardless of what victory type I am going for. Once those leaders have been pummelled I am free to really persue any Victory Type I want.

 

[Ahriman]

None of the above; I usually quit the game once it has become clear that I will be the winner because I am the most powerful civ, and would clearly be able to win a science or diplomatic or time victory.

[And like Dunkah; becoming dominant usually involves warfare, but not necessarily conquering all the capitals.]

 

[Thalassicus]

A healthy mix of war and peace is probably good for the game. It's likely be boring if we could pursue one victory type and ignore the other aspects of Civ.

 

[Ahriman]

A healthy mix of war and peace is probably good for the game. It's likely be boring if we could pursue one victory type and ignore the other aspects of Civ.

I agree. I'm not saying that it is a problem. I'm just saying that I often "complete" the game I'm playing without playing all the way through to a victory condition, and that playstyle isn't necessarily narrowly about achieving a particular victory condition. For most of the game, my strategy will often be "become more powerful while weakening any other potentially powerful civs". Often I'll go to war without any intention of taking land, just to destroy the army of a potential breakaway civ, so that they have to devote their resources to rebuilding their army rather than to their economy, and so that they can't gobble up their smaller neighbors.

 

[Zaldron]

In vanilla, science and domination, sometimes diplo "by accident". Cultural was made way too difficult in the latest patch.

In VEM, cultural and science probably equally. I love building and VEM lets me do that with minimal warring.

 

[albie_123]

A question to Thal, will the results from this poll (Showing diplomatic victory as little more than a novelty) mean that you will attempt to make a diplomatic victory more relevant or make the path to a diplomatic victory more rewarding?

 

[Thalassicus]

Doing any fundamental alterations to victory conditions would require game core access. This poll is just so I have a general sense of which victories people favor. I'm not going to use it for a specific task, but the knowledge will help guide overall decisions in the future.

 

[apocalypse105]

Well Diplomacy is far from best I hate it so much that i uselly go domination because I hate those chidly AI who thinx they can do anything and i dont kill the mall exterminate exterminate exterminate!!!!