You are mine! ...not :(

[MrLeN]

Has anyone lost a game when at one stage you were convinced that you had global domination within your grasp?

If so, what happened?

MrLeN

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Where there is money, there are liars!

 

[shadowdale]

No never - is that even possible???
I can't imagine a person not paying attention to the AI!!! But then again I can't imagine a person letting the AI get so big and advanced that it can make NUKES!!!

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[stormerne]

No. That would mean an aberration of judgement when you first convinced yourself, and an aberration of awareness, AND a military f*** up of the highest order.

Fortunately, I only manage one of the above at a time.

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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage" - Anais Nin

 

[BlueMonday]

Nope. I've lost by spaceship a couple times, but only when I was acting peaceful and not trying to dominate.

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"Watch me with your eyes...I've been giving God a bitter fight.
I want to be just like you...then I'd be cool (maybe not).
Without you being here...I've been giving fear a welcome home.
I wish I could feel like you...you pocket pornstar."

 

[Mongol Horde]

I have built myself up for years in an isolationist kind of way to find that when I have discovered the other civs they have been much further on than I expected. I have usually been able to put the situation right though.

 

[MrLeN]

DER!

Did I really have to mention that I was speaking of multiplayer?

Sheeeeesh!

MrLeN

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Where there is money, there are liars!

 

[vladmir_illych_lenin]

Never happened, not even in MP. When I conquer the world, I conquer. I do not leave one civ sitting unharassed for long.

 

[Pedro]

Yes, I have experienced such a thing MrLeN, and it's fairly easy to explain how it happened.
When I started playing multiplayer sessions I had read a huge number of strategies about how to play civ. Because of that my early game got REALLY good, so I will beat most people if I meet them early. However. Because of a strange twist in my incomprehensable cerebral nerves, I really suck when it comes to the mid-game (just after the discovery of invention and just before the discovery of industrialization, IMO)
So, there I was: Deity of the huge Aztec empire, superior in each and every aspect of the game and then little by little it started to fade into a hopeless pool of misery. At that point I met my human opponent.....