when a game starts being extremly boring

[PinkIronclad]

I love civ3. This is the best game I've ever played with Starcraft.However, at the early industrial age, my interest of playing civ3 is reduced by at least 70%. Especially when the factories, coal plants, hospitals, railroads and TANKS makes their apparition. I hate it when i just build factories, coal plants, hospitals, and build 1 tank per 3 turn in my cities which are all big and fully productive and all. In those time, my tresory is extremly big( my cash can vary between 1000gold to 20 000gold.I've put my workers on "Shift A" to build railroads everywhere and all.ALL my citizens are Happy.. my luxury rate = 0% and i usually dont trade at all with the other civs because my tresory is full enought. Am I the only one who hate the game after the early industrial age? I play on Regent and Monarch, depending on my mood.Of course in those games I am more than often first in the score so I don't see anything exciting in this part of the game.
Could you give me some tips in order to make my games more fun to play after the early industrial age?

 

[sealman]

You can always put restrictions on yourself. For example,

1) You are only allowed to build "x" number of cities.
2) Can not leave your starting island/continent.
3) Check out some of the variants currently being played as sucession games. They seem challenging.

 

[Spectator]

You can change all that in the editor. Just make the units to expensive or change the tech prerequisites to have that unit. That way, you wont build them and tha AI wont build them.
You can also decrease the tech rate a lot. Or you could try to dl mods to change your gameplay.

So that's it, use the editor or dl mods.

Spec.

 

[JoseM]

try to make a goal, build the spaceship first or get 100 ICBM's and proclame urself the #1 nuclear power then launch those 100 icbms against ur enemies

 

[PinkIronclad]

i already use mods tough
they are essential ;D
i dont feel like changing the setting in the editor
i will try to build radar artillery and AEGIS cruiser: ive never saw one
i will build some of those "iroquois ICBM" and kill those "Zulus Stealth Fighters"
lolll sounds so funny

 

[Sir Yelof]

Originally posted by PinkIronclad
In those time, my tresory is extremly big( my cash can vary between 1000gold to 20 000gold.I've put my workers on "Shift A" to build railroads everywhere and all.ALL my citizens are Happy.. my luxury rate = 0% and i usually dont trade at all with the other civs because my tresory is full enought. Am I the only one who hate the game after the early industrial age? I play on Regent and Monarch, depending on my mood.Of course in those games I am more than often first in the score so I don't see anything exciting in this part of the game.

Easiest tip of all. Play on at least Monarch, and even try Emperor. The computer's head start on higher levels means you'll find you won't be sitting around with a full treasury and a comfortable tech lead. Highly recommended. Come back and complain when you're bored with Deity!

 

[sealman]

If you get bored with Deity, time to move onto another game

 

[Grey Knight]

The AI, while better than Civ II, really just adds flavor to the game. Aside from an early rush of bonus units, the AI doesn't present any real challange. Upping the difficulty level really doesn't change the game much. In the end you are pretty much playing against yourself. For real challenges we have to wait for:

• Soren to upgrade the AI
• Multiplayer
• [SIZE=+1]An API to the AI, so the mod community can create truely different and challenging AIs.[/SIZE]

Er, um, I guess you can guess my favorite

[SIZE=+1]An Aside...[/SIZE]

The "build often" / "build never" settings don't really work too well. A better idea would be to have the ability to set tendencies for each category:

Very often
More often
Average
Less often
Rarely

Then a fuzzy logic routine can be used to keep things aligned to these priorities as much as possible, without focusing solely on one area or neglecting another.

Also, bombard, offensive, defensive, etc. priorities should be subcategories of "offensive units". This would allow control from a strategic level of how much resource to dedicate to offensive units, and then finer control of how to allocate those resources to units (i.e. heavy on fast attack, heavy on bombard, etc.).

Then again, I digress...

Cheers,
Shawn

 

[Bamspeedy]

1. Up the difficulty level.
2. Try the OCC (One city challenge), where you are only allowed to build only one city during the whole game.
3. Try different stategies, like being an aggressive warmonger or peaceful builder.
4. Try different governments than you normally would. Like if you always prefer Democracy, try Monarchy the whole game, or switch to communism. I'm thinking of trying a game where I stay in Despositism until 2050 A.D.
5. Allow yourself to build only one worker (and get rid of any captured workers).
6. Random civ, random map, raging barbarians.
7. Participate in the Game of the Month (GOTM), or shoot for a high score in the Hall of Fame (HoF).

But you do have a point, when the game is obviously won, it isn't a whole lot of fun to keep playing. Alot of people quit when they already know they have won. But then they start a new game for a new challenge.

 

[narmox]

Or try not to destroy all the civs you meetthe ancient age. try not to sprawl so much. play 16 civs on a huge map with small archiplagos (ok, slow in the late middle-ages and afterwards, but well worth it). etc...

 

[Creepster]

I had the same problem with Civ 2. (Civ 3 I am still learning all of the new variations.) I still had a lot of fun with the game though by trying to build the largest cities I could support. Some grew to a size of 40 plus. Having a couple of them in the same game got to be interesting. In civ 3 I imagine this would be even better with the culture aspect. Especially if you could win with the one city option. After I figure a few more details out I plan on trying it. I imagine you would have to have a lot of colonies to support the resources, and luxaries though.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

You can play the game with a girlfriend on your lap.

 

[Benjamin Miller]

Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola
You can play the game with a girlfriend on your lap.

Yes, that always works, but it's not always an option

 

[Badluck]

try OCC (one city challenge) and win by culture

edit: what was i thinking?

 

[BiatchGuy]

The only times I get bored are when I've set a goal for myself and it becomes apparent I'm not going to achieve it, or if I am surrounded by powerful neighbors with no more room to expand and don't feel like waging war just for territory.

 

[MrBiggBoy]

The ONLY time I've ever felt bored in a CIV game is when I had a MASSIVE lead when I just got the game (oh.... so long ago) and I was in Chieftain eek: )!!

 

[PinkIronclad]

i like the random civ random map. but i really wanted to try the mounted warriors
i killed the so evil AZTEC at the beggening of the game with those units ;D i also killed the english right after ( i hate when a civ build cities in the middle of my empire ) and some years after i killed the babs with knights( they are still alive with 1 city builded on hills, size 2 ) .




image(download it please! )

here is my little conquest with the mounted warriors.
i dont care about my low score and all.. i just want to have fun
egyptians killed the romans recently, zulus killed the americans and the french. persia killed the american with the zulus.
note: we discovered the chineese in 1500AD ~ lol the romans who builded the Glighthouse didnt found them . they are on a far island. indians are also on a island
roman, egyptians, japaneese, and greeks are on the same little continent.
the other civs including me are on a bigger continent
the chineese, on their island, have FOURTEEN gems all packed together on the mountains. lol
indians have 10 spices
i know you dont care but i like to talk about civ3
i just wanted to say that iroquois is a very fun civ to play with ( religious( no anarchy) expensionist( tech leader)

edit- damn its a triple post! sory

 

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