What motivates you to keep going after you start a game?

[stwils]

When you start up a game, what motivates you to keep playing?

When I first start a game, I love exploring the map, popping huts, getting new techs, and meeting "the others." But after awhile, I just seem to lapse into aimlessly playing.

What motives you to keep on?

stwils

 

[trada]

The goals I set myself. E.g. Get Gunpowder to strengthen my defence on my eastern border and thus hold advantange in my conflict with the Russians, colonize those northern islands to grow my empire, double my population within the next 250 years (a bit silly but hey).

Yeah, so that's how I keep playing. Setting little goals along the way makes this game much more interesting. And it keeps you day dreaming at school about how you are going to fulfill your goal.

 

[Tenochtitlan]

To see how the powergraph will turn out after retirement or conquest

 

[tomsnowman123]

For me it's basically the fact that it's fun.

 

[TeamEvil]

In my case it depends much on how well it goes from the beginning... If I get a good start, then I have no problems with countinuing playing. But, if I get a less good start (like loosing unit after unit and not getting any technologies) then I'll just quit. It also depends a lot on how much time I've got. Today is an example, or well, 2 days ago I started a new game, and everything went great so I countinued to play yesterday. Then today I've been sitting in front of my old Mac. (I play the Mac. version) all day (atleast 5 or 6 hours) and been playing. I've launched a rocket and almost destroyed all other civilizations (had 7 at the beginning, got only 1 left), and now it's not really as if I could just quit this game! (I think I'm kinda addicted to it)

 

[BillCat]

Enough of my games crash that I just want to win - be the first in space, take over the planet, preferably both. I broke a mouse in anger the other day - seems that games progress when I'm way behind and crash when I'm way ahead. I feel such a sense of accomplishment when a game actually survives the 20th century and I'm ahead.

- BillCat

 

[nock371]

Starting from nothing and getting high tech as possible, with the aim of a conquest of those primitive tribes, also getting as high a score as possible.

I started out on chieftan, and that was fun for a while as I just wanted to go around smashing things, but that got boring, so now prefer Prince level as there are more variables and it's harder, but I can still get over 80% civilization score.

Basically I think you need to set little goals as trada suggested and if you get bored do something different. I like to save the game at a certain point when boredom/hum drum sets in and play out different scenarios eg conquest versus being an ostrich (isolated). Even more interesting is putting it on King or Emperor level and trying to be an ostrich on a continent surrounded by the Russians and Zulus with fortified borders and then trying to out tech them and take them over later on...