You know are attempting a Domination victory when...

[Brenador]

1. Every AI civilization hates you.

2. You have more Great Generals than you know what to do with.

3. Happiness is the bane of your existence.

4. You have spent an eternity moving troops.

5. Your worst fear is that the City Connections you have with conquered cities will be broken.

6. You have fought a war on two or more fronts - by choice.

7. You have razed more cities than Genghis Khan did in real life.

8. Your economy runs on plunder and the Honor finisher.

9. You disband workers because there you are paying too much in unit upkeep.

10. You have worked out an elaborate plan to determine the fastest way to reach everyone's capital before 2050.

 

[Landtuber]

11. You have figured out the closest city (or coast location) that is 12 tiles away from the enemy capital, so you can nuke it.

 

[ShakaKhan]

12. you decline a DoF

 

[ThorHammerz]

13. XCOMs are you new BFF's.

14. You use nukes like you use toilet paper.

 

[Bimblecrumbs]

15. You hit the unit cap despite having 50 population in your cities.

 

[dasaard200]

16. When you're running out of continents to invade .

17. When AIs swap cities to raze, hoping to spawn Barbs for you to munch on, and not THEM !!

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

18. All of the science, culture, gold and faith actually comes from your conquered and puppeted cities.

 

[NyQuil]

19. You save up all your gold to upgrade your units.

 

[phillipwyllie]

20. You loose your capital to a Cs but you don't care.

 

[dasaard200]

21.When Our "Fleet of Gentle Persuasion" takes 4 turns to pass a 1 tile island, in a 7 tile wide channel; in a non-nuclear game .

 

[Cerilis]

22. You think up complicated plans to make other AIs take the last city of your current target, then waltz in when their time has come and liberate that city for the warmonger reduce.

 

[reddishrecue]

23. You mean you know you failed a domination victory attempt when you do many don'ts i.e (major warmonger penalties, mass civilizations making mass dows on you)

 

[phillipwyllie]

24. When you beeline and build the Statue of Zeus. Or curse when beaten to it.

 

[Mesix]

10. You have worked out an elaborate plan to determine the fastest way to reach everyone's capital before 2050.

Before 2050? If I am playing for a Domination VC, I generally finish by the Renaissance Era.

 

[beetle]

25. Your “income” is double digits in the red, but each turn you end with more gold than the turn before...

 

[Tabarnak]

26. You are playing against humans.

 

[reddishrecue]

27. You finish the domination victory and say gg to yourself in sp.

 

[Matthew.]

28. Every WC vote is to ban yet another one of your luxuries (never mind getting the embargo, but the sharp warmonger you are, you've long since switched over to internal routes and stay afloat from trading post puppet spam)

29. You choose Autocracy. Everyone else does not (except that poor sap who is now swimming in unhappiness and about to switch). Your largest threat now is not Atilla with his few million pointy sticks, but that culture Civ on the other side of the map giving away free vacation packages to any non-autocracy peace-loving tourists (and your ppl hate you for it).

30. You have more than one ranged unit with both double attack and +1 range.

31. a. You have the option to build the last round of building improvements, but continue to spam out military or stay on production ~> gold conversion.

31. b. You have the option to participate in World's Fair/Games, but continue to spam out military or stay on production ~> gold conversion.

 

[phillipwyllie]

32. You open Liberty but only settle 2 cities.