Worlds Longest CivIII Game

ironfang

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I have had CivIII since its release date. In the first two days, I played 6 games and got toasted in the Ancient times. Since then, I started the following game;

World: Huge
Type: Continents (most land)
Temp: Moderate
Barb: Restless
Diff: Warlord
Civ : Americans

I have been playing for more than 2 weeks now on this game and I am only in the late 1800's (1868+). Each turn is taking me around 15-30 mins. When I go to war, turns can take from 30 mins to 1 hour. Its alot of fun though. Not complaining. Just wondering if anyone has experienced similar games?

ironfang
 
It did this for me too hehe...

But on large map... my turns are taking about 20 minutes when at war... 5-10 otherwise,

im a persian, everyone is ******** on the map even me... hehe its 1000 AD and I'm making war with immortals agaisnt spearmans.

I'm trying to conquer the world and its VERY long, but i'll make it some day ;D
 
I've had a similar game going. Each turn feels like an entire game sometimes. It would definitely infuriate me if all I was doing was playing. But watching TV, reading, or talking with people during the delay is definitely the way to go.

Whats your planned victory condition? War is so time-consuming, the space victory looks very appealling...
 
I'm in one, too, but I have all options turned off other than conquest. Which means i'll be playing this game for a while.....in mid-1800's right now, with the exact settings as the first post except i'm the germans on regent level.

I'm pretty dominant at this point, and it's beginning to look like the outcome is no longer in question. Next time on the next hardest level.....
 
Me too, my girlfriend wants to kill me!! I have been reading a book or the paper in between turns.
 
Me too, my girlfriend wants to kill me!! I have been reading a book or the paper in between turns. It's great!! I feel like I have a real civilization that encompasses several mountain ranges and valleys, instead of the proforma terrain that seems to be offered on standard and smaller maps.

Nice work Firaxis! Now, if only I had a 5 Ghz, dual-processor system;)
 
Certainly a game that will get better as the years pass. We'll all have this one till CIV4 and some of us will keep playing even after that. Now all we have to do is wait for Intel to catch up with our needs. That and our bank accounts. I'm not sure I'm ready to commit to a huge map with 15 opponents yet. I would love to do it, but I can see it taking months.
 
In CIV2 I figured about 30 days per game. Large/huge map, max civs, playing an hour or two per day with at least one day a week off. From what I have seen CIV3 might go even longer. The ability to pump out settlers doesn't kick in until you have at least a few large cities. This and and other dynamics might make the games longer still.
 
God thanks, I am not alone!! A huge map with 12 civs, regent, mid-1600's, no war, just giving orders to a few workers and 15-20 minutes each turn!!!
(on a Pentium-II 350 machine with 256Mb RAM)
 
Originally posted by knowltok
Certainly a game that will get better as the years pass. We'll all have this one till CIV4 and some of us will keep playing even after that. Now all we have to do is wait for Intel to catch up with our needs. That and our bank accounts. I'm not sure I'm ready to commit to a huge map with 15 opponents yet. I would love to do it, but I can see it taking months.

No wonder that turns take long if you wait for Intel to make a decent processor :D
AMD all the way, man, cheaper and better :)
 
My first two games I played the first 2 days. Got my backside handed to me both time.

So I said what the heck. I started a huge archipalago game with 12 civs. I finnally beat it after two weeks. I had decided on going with a domination victory. around 1900, there were just 4 civilizations left, with myself killing off the rest of them. I had a ton of cities and was nowhere near total world domination. I had just finished arranging my armor, and navel units so that I could take over the french continent in 1 turn.

Took me 5 turns to take over the english continent.

I had 10 transports filled with armor, another 5 transports with infintry, 25 battleships, 100 destroyers(4 destroyers escorting every battleship) all ready to set sail in my industrial harbor.

I set them going on the journey to the french continent to the south. (My long time allies, had the luxaries that I didn't. Trade partners for 1500 years)

Then it happened, Cultural Victory. Next time I am playing on a smaller map for world domination.
 
Turn off cultural victory at the beginning if you want to.

To the AMD fans out there, apologies, I was generalizing. We shall wait for the techno wizards to discover more secrest from the alien craft and incorperate them into our computers. ;)
 
I'm playing a Regent game with 10 civs on a Huge map right now (1300 AD, middle industrial age) on an AMD 1 GHz machine with 128 RAM. Every single corner is filled with AI's cities but, probably since there has been hardly any war (except the first one, initiated by me, of course :D , that was intended to take out the Indians and secure me some kind of "Lebensraum" ;), AI's turns are over in a minute and I can safely turn back to my duties, secretly developing techs and (planning) later some REASONABLE military forces in order to prove all the AI's civs who should be the ultimate ruler :king:. I manage about 5 turns per hour, hope, it won't get more ugly later in the game... although sometimes I anyway study Kissinger's "Diplomacy" (the right book for playing Civ3, don't you think, especially the term "balance of power"
:goodjob:, don't you think?) while AI is thinking his "wise" moves...
 
Ironfang, what are your specs? I am beginning to think it may be a few years before I play on a huge map. Part of the problem is that you can gain important knowledge from watching the computer move. I'm just not willing to spend that long watching. Of course at those times, I'm not willing to spend that long playing in general. Maybe I'll try one out and play CIV2 on my work laptop at the same time, but the game would probably outlast the job.

Are you able to do other things on the computer at the same time? Such as post on this board?
 
1 ghz and only 128 MB of RAM? You nuts? :)

Unfortunately, Civ3 is NOT optimized for dual processor systems. I played it on a Celeron 800, P3 - 650, and dual 400 (the 800 and dual 400 had 512 MB of RAM, the 650 had a gig), and by far the Celeron 800 was the best performer, followed fairly closely by the P3 - 650. I don't like huge games on the dual 400--turns take too long, but they only take a minute or so on the celeron 800 once I get to the industrial age.
 
Hey, I'm an ex-Intel employee here, and I play on an AMD K6-2 processor. :) And I was on the Pentium III design team. Go figure. :confused: Let's just say I'm a little disillusioned with Intel. hee hee hee hee....
 
Originally posted by ironfang
Last night, 1776-1778. 1 hour 45 minutes.

ironfang.

1h45m!!!!! This is madness!! Ironfang: You will be enjoying your old age pension before ever getting yr first nuke. (which is a shame, and u know it!)

Gents,

Reduce mapsize/# of opponents. The game is ALOT better when running smoothly...
 
[Soren_Johnson_Firaxis] sorry about all the "senseless" unit movement. Basically, if the AI has nothing to do with its offensive units, they jsut "patrol." We are looking at ways to speed this up...

This may explain some of the time lapse?

ironfang
 
Here is my stats

Computer:
PIII 750 Mhz
128 MB SDRam
32 MB TNT RIVA Video
20 GB HD 5200 RPM


CIV III:
Huge World
Continents (most land)
15 Civs (10 left)
Industrial period
Playing Americans

ironfang
 
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